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Walker Audio Prelude Record Cleaning Question -

While I am very happy with the Walker Audio Prelude record cleaning system I recently ran out of there "Ultra Pure Laboratory Grade Water" that sells for $44 for 64 oz. I started to rinse with the standard $1 a gallon distilled water in lieu of the Walker water after doing step 1 and step 2 and can not tell the difference sonically.
Has anyone gone to the extreme and compared the two types of water listed above. I have not done a direct A/B comparison between the two but just cleaning with the standard distilled water yielded very positive results and I am not sure there is much if any difference between the two water rinses but I could be wrong. Personally I feel the biggest improvement the Walker record cleaning system has over the Disc Doctor system, which I was previously using, is Step one which removes the Teflon coating on the vinyl record.
Any thoughts how critical the quality of the water is?

Johnny
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Thanks for your compairson Rushton between the two waters. I just recently ran out of the Walker Ultra Pure water from my first kit so I was courious if anyone else tried a A/B compairson.

I have not tried the step Four high Resoultion rinse yet. I have been very happy with the Prelude Three step process so far but I might give step four a try some time in the future.

Tom Port who sells the Walker record cleaning fluids and is very pleased with them claims to have mixed results with the Walker Step Four. He says some records sound better with it while others do not. He does not use it but many others like your self are very happy with it. I guess each person will have to try for themselfs.

Johnny
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