Best Record Cleaning Fluid


Greetings All,

I’ve spend the last few days searching and reading about record cleaning fluids for my cleaning machine (Okki Nikki).  Wow - there are a lot of options out there.  Many more than I originally thought.  Some real esoteric stuff that costs a pretty penny.  I’m currently going through my entire collection, cleaning it, listening to it and adding it to a Discogs DB.  Want to finally know how many I have and have a list of them.  But doing this has resulted in me going through cleaning fluid rather quickly.

So many options, so many perspectives on what are the best fluids.  What do you all say.  I understand that alcohol is a no-no for fluids, but I can’t find out if some of them include alcohol or not.  Currently using up the fluid that came with the machine, but no where can I read it if has bad ingredients.

The 2-stage or 3-stage cleaning systems are not going to happen.  I did get a bottle of Revolv that I was told was good, and use if for new high quality pressings (as opposed to those I bought in high school).

Anyway, would appreciate some perspectives on good quality record cleaning fluids that don’t bust the bank.  Thanks for keeping the sarcasm in check.

Happy Listening,

pgaulke60

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Another fluid delivery mechanism I don’t care for is spray bottles.  Invariably I get some on the label or on the machine itself.  
Anybody have experience with the Okki Nokki record cleaning fluid?  How about Mobile Fidelity or the Revolv that I mentioned? Sometimes I think they are all about the same.  Hard to do a comparison because, one the LP is clean, well, uh, it is clean.
Can we please get back to experiences with off the shelf products.  There have been some helpful posts about several products.  Would like to hear from a few others about their experiences.  I do respect and understand those that have commented that they have tried many products and found them quite similar.  I think that is a valid point.

Thanks
LOL - I searched MelodyMate and received a bunch of Porn weblinks!

Back to the point...  Lots of discussion about rinsing.  It seems that rinsing is cleaning product dependent - would you agree?  Maybe it is a good idea for all cleaning, but I'm quite lazy and really don't want to go through a three step process, or having to do a rinse.

Confirmed with the Okki Nokki people that their cleaning fluid is 4% alcohol.  I'm going back to ask what kind of alcohol.  I assume that is is Isopropyl, which sounds fine from all the counsel in this post.  Then we get into splitting hairs on what the potency of the alcohol is.

You can tell I still haven't made up my mind what to purchase next.  I figure at the rate that I am spinning LPs that I need something in bulk, not the 4oz bottle product.  

Thanks to everyone chiming in!