Seeking Recommendations For A Record Cleaner

My recommendation is the combination of the Pro-Ject VC-S2 ALU (currently on sale for $499 at Music Direct) and the Humminguru ultrasonic.

I think a Humminguru will do a better job than one of the cheaper vacuum machines. You'd have to go to a point-source machine (Keith Monks, Loricraft) to approach U/S levels of clean.

I have only owned two cleaning machines over the last twenty five years. The first a VPI… it both applied cleaning solution and vacuumed. It did a good job and lasted about twenty years. It was very noisy… jet aircraft noisy. I never thought much about it, but did consider ear plugs.

When it died I wanted to replace it quickly… I did some research and bought a German Nessie. I think, somewhere in the $3K range. I was simply blown away by how much better this device is. It is soooo quiet! Once turned on, it times the scrubbing, automatically reverses… then tells you it is time to vacuum. You just swing the brush out of the way and swing the vacuum tool over the record and it takes over and vacuums in both directions. 
 

The Nessie is sooo much quieter and easier to use I just cannot believe it. The whole experience is so much more enjoyable and easy. 
 

I consider a record cleaner a utility… something not to spend a lot of money on. But having experienced a high end one… well, I would have upgraded a decade or two earlier. 

Thanks for the input, guys.  I will look at the other models mentioned here.  I have not done a lot of research on Ultrasonic Record Cleaning machines.  I'll research the Pros vs Cons.

Again, thanks.

I manually scrub the living crap out of my old and/or new LP’s, using a manual system, 10 at a time, soft infant scalp brush, no damage at all. Amazing how a beat up LP can sound.

see 11th photo in my virtual system here, I listen while cleaning a batch of 10.

https://www.audiogon.com/systems/9511

My friend has a nice Ultrasonic cleaner, easy, fairly quick one at a time, easy to get a few ready before hand. However, sometimes he/we hear noise on his ultra cleaned LPs.

For the last 2 yrs I've cleaned hundreds of LPs with the Keith Monks Prodigy and find it works wonderfully, very quiet and takes less than 5 minutes per LP.

https://www.audioasylumtrader.com/ca/listing/Turntables/Keith-Monks-Prodigy-PLUS/Record-Cleaning-Machine/.-Now-with-FREE-1-liter-discOvery-fluid-BACK-IN-STOCK/220477