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

"transferred to left or right"

From this statement alone I call BS

Good Listening

Peter

My experience has been that a noisy record will remain a noisy record with an RCM, Ultrasonic, or any combo thereof.

I’ve taken problematic samples to my local B&M audio store with an ultrasonic cleaner with detergent bath and air blow dry cycles.  Despite multiple attempts at home on my RCM - some records just remained noisy.  So I was hopeful that an ultrasonic cleaning would be the answer.

Twice thru and all the ticks and pops were in the exact same spots.

I’ve sent the same problematic samples (8 records) to a company that specializes in multi-step cleaning/archiving services for vinyl LPs. I carefully played and noted surface noise problems before sending and unfortunately, after return, the surface noise remained. Perhaps the sonics were improved a bit, but ultrasonic cleaning will not be a magic cure for ticks and pops.

Pbn, first listen to the two recordings and if you do not hear it that way, good for you.

Rrm, in my view ruined. The cleaned piece sounds to me completely flat and soulless.

Inna is here. Yes, Whart is correct, more information and a little more natural sound overall. As for the noise, almost no difference, but the record I sent to him was already very clean. It was a Cielo e Terra album by Al Di Meola, acoustic guitar, electro-acoustic guitar atmospheric music with percussion on some tracks. I use Okki Nokki machine and Audio Intelligent three step cleaning solutions. Double water rinse. I guess, my system is comparable with the OP’s, I play records on Nottingham Spacedeck/Spacearm with Goldring 1042 MM and Acoustech PH 1 phono. Purist Audio and Tchernov Audio Reference MK II cables.

I use the Vinyl Stack, the E bay US cleaner and the formulas and techniques described by Rushton Paul on this forum. I rinse twice and dry with a VPI Cyclone. I thought that my records were clean until I started using the US. On older used records the detail and image have been improved to almost new. On new records, the film and any debris are cleaned off making another big difference.