Would be happy to hear from Agoners who are satisfied with a L Art du Son based cleaning regime..
I tried a lot of Cleaning fluids the last years, L'Art du son for example, too.
Honestly, first you should know for what you need what. Reissues for example have problems in the cooling process, nothing helps here, they are noisy and they will be noisy after cleaning, maybe a little bit less.
Old records have smoke, dust etc. in the grooves, here you can use 1 step solutions (one or multiple cycles) or multi step solutions. There is a big discussion about fluids, what is best and so on...and how much time it needs.. I don't share this view.
Most fluids do the job quite good, the real problem and the real difference is the way to remove it.
some fluids can't be removed properly, based on their mix, they need additional steps with distilled water, for example (but this is not written in the manual).
You described your experience with a Loricraft and a former VPI, the difference is in the way the fluid is removed (or how much of it), this is in my opinion the most important factor for a superior result.
I use AVIS for example, had LADS before & some others, real dirty records need multiple washings anyway and with a point nozzle design you can reduce that to a minimum.
The other units will have "wet lips" after a few turns and when the record is dry it will be noisy again. Most listen to their records right after cleaning and there the noise is reduced, but this is based on still being wet a little bit...
