A second for the vpi. Was great in the '80's and, now that I'm doing vinyl again, still great. I read another post awhile back describing a similar experience with surface noise after cleaning, and I think the conclusion was that the guy wasn't getting all the fluid (and collected debris) off, I think because he wasn't letting the vacuum work long enough. I'm pretty generous with vacuum time, myself, and I use MoFi fluids, and am a happy camper.
Record cleaning machine makes more surface noise?
I use to have a nitty gritty hand crank record cleaner until I accidentally kicked it and it broke. The thing basically collected dust for 6 years because I never felt like it cleaned the records at all. In fact sometimes they sounded worse afterwards. I've tossed around the idea of getting a good automatic machine to see how that goes, but I'd rather put my money elsewhere if It is going to be another dust collector.