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Di I really need to clean my LP's?

Recently, when announcing to a relative my intent to use a recently purchased Spin-Clean Record Washer on some LP’s, of which I am the original owner and which have not been played in decades, her reply was, “If you’ve always handled them correctly, and stored them in their sleeves, why do you need to clean them?” I think that this is a very good question. Is there a good reason for me to clean them?

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I’ve got many records I bought new in the early 80s and used nothing other than a Discwasher with their fluid and the records sound fine to this day.  The only time I use a RCM (VPI 16.5) is when I buy a used record and it’s really grimy or if I listen to what appears to be a pristine record but hear lots of pops and ticks.

The vinyl world is filled with so many far-fetched and silly “to do’s” and “not to do”s” with regard to record cleaning that you’ve got to keep your BS radar up.

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