Audio Desk cleaner.....still available?

I had the Audio Desk twice. The first time, the pump failed and the company would not take it back but merely give me a light discount on a new one. I fell for it and bought the new one (an upgraded model with a better pump). When that pump failed this year, I did not even bother calling. I threw it in the garbage and purchased a KlAudio which works much better anyway. I assume the Degritter will too.

Look around Audiogon and you will see that others have had the same issue. Someone here has a method to open the system and replace the pump. Not for me. I blindly trusted the German engineering aspect. A lesson learned.

Hi theo

On both occasions, about 4 to 5 years. The second machine I turned on after not using it for about 1 year and the pump never started up. I clean records in batches. I'll do 30 to 40 in one day and then let it go for months. The AD was a huge mistake for me.

Hi Theo:

The results were good (better than my VPI although I sometimes used them in tandem for used records that needed a deep cleaning) but not great. I did not realize that until I put some of the same albums that I previously cleaned with my AD through my KL audio record cleaner which further reduced tics/pops that the AD did not remove.

The disappointment came from the pump which is cheap and fragile. I purchased my second unit with an upgraded pump but that also suffered the same fate.  For the price charged and the inability to send the unit for repair, Reiner Glass has some nerve asking for the thousands that I invested in his record cleaning machines. There are a number of threads on this forum re the pump in the AD and none speak favorably about this issue.

Mike sells the AudioDesk and not the Klaudio and says so in the video. But he uses the Klaudio.