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Vinyl records & Discwasher cleaner

My vinyl record collection was stored for 40 years with multiple moves through out the years. Last stop was work. One day I entered my office and unexpectedly found boxes of 700 albums. Someone needed space and without asking piled them in office. Moved them to my home. Got me thinking. Divorced, kids out, home with rooms I can play loud without disturbing neighbors. Why not go for it. I restarted my journey back into the HIFI world.  Turned out to be an expensive move.

Now a days, as with most, streaming is the preferred mode of transportation in the journey if HIFI. From time to time, I pull a record out to play. Most of the time I’m stunned when I hear most of them have little pops or other noises, if at all. Then I remember that I was pretty religious about cleaning them before play with Discwasher cleaner.

Does anyone else remember using Discwasher with their records back in the 70’s? sure there’s a few of you young chaps that used it.

Not sure when they stopped selling them. Most likely early 80’s when CDs done them in.

goldenways
vinylvin
150 posts
 

I don't think it was really a cleaner, just to get the dust off. Worked great back in the 70s. The brush was real nice though.

lewm
13,722 posts
 

Did it work “great”, or was it just a successful marketing phenomenon at a time when there was no serious competition?

richmon
266 posts
 

Used the original Discwasher religiously from the early 70's till 1985 or so when I went down the CD rabbit hole and stored my records away in a closet. Reading all these threads about vinyl sounding better on Gon got me a get a B&O turntable to cautiously dip my toe back in round 2005. Found my stored for 20 years records to sound great, no clicks and pops or crackling. 

So I resumed using a vintage one off ebay ( I'm told the new ones don't have curved bristles and don't work as well). On the fence about going ultrasonic mostly due to price.

goldenways OP
85 posts
 

When playing an album now, which is less than 10% of the time, I just use a brush.  Play as it is. Reap the benefits of my diligence from year ago. I’m sure I’m not going to have the opportunity playing them 40 years from now.

Playing a record is a ritual, A 40 minute ritual. That’s most likely the pull for me for playing them. Using a dishwasher is no longer a ritual for me. One ritual that dovetails playing records is smoking a joint. Heart and lungs squashes that nowadays days. 

Hey guys, this thread is giving away our age range without stating. Easy assumption

lewm
13,722 posts
 

Last time I tried to play LPs while stoned, which was only several months ago, I had to stop the session for fear of damaging my cartridge or scratching a beloved LP, or both. My hand-eye coordination was very impaired and/or I didn’t care.

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