if I buy an ultrasonic cleaner for my records will I be able to hear the difference?

I know you are looking for input from people who own an US cleaner, but that said, cleeds post makes a lot of sense!

(I've ordered the Degritter US cleaner, hopefully to arrive this fall, and I'm really looking forward to trying it out.  It will be my first record cleaner, beyond using an anti-static brush).

As I mentioned earlier, I don't yet have experience with USC as I'm still awaiting my Degritter USC.

But if you want to hear a comparison before and after an old record was cleaned, Degritter recorded such a comparison.  If you go to the Degritter site here:

http://degritter.com/

You'll see a link just down a bit under "News," to the recording of a polish singer, where you can listen to the before and after recordings.Not all the crackle is gone, but there is an impressive (to me) clearing up of the sound, especially instrument tonality.  Before sounds flat and whitened with noise.  After at least sounds like hearing more realistic voice/instruments through some noise.

Of course grains of salt must be taken as this recording is offered by the company selling the record cleaner. 


I'm still going to temper my expectations.   For one thing a pal with a nitty gritty cleaner cleaned some old records of mine.  They looked spanking new afterwards, but didn't really sound that much more free of noise.  Similarly, I just received a 1979 record (bought on discogs) advertised as near mint.  It sure looked near mint - either unplayed or having been put through a record cleaner.  But it actually played as one of the noisiest records in my collection - tons of pops and ticks, and background noise (that did abate somewhat in to the recording).

So I'm learning you can't necessarily tell how noisy a record is going to be just by how clean it looks.


(And I'm also appalled at how visually dirty many new vinyl pressings are when I open them!)

rrm
The original price of the Degritter was just over 2,000 Euros.  I don't know if it will cost the same, less, or more once production starts (and they are producing the first batch now).

I got in on the orders before they closed and I'm expecting my Degritter sometime around September. 


For the view of a beta tester, go to:


http://degritter.com/

And you'll see a link on that page to a youtube video of a beta tester's impressions.  (He loved it).

FWIW:

I can't add any reports as of yet, but I can say that my interaction with the Degritter team, pestering them with various questions before, during and after my purchase, has been flawless.  I always get a very helpful reply within 24 hours, and I've seen others give similarly positive reports from their interactions.