I only clean my thrift store finds with my record dr....because they are usually quite filthy visually, fingerprints etc...however they have little if any scratches, as I’m very discriminant. I do not clean records that I myself bought new and know the history of, because they are pristine. All these records ever see is a dry cleaning with my auduoquest carbon fiber brush, or maybe a dishwasher d4 quick cleaning.
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?