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Degritter brand ultrasonic record cleaner

I received notification yesterday that the Degritter ultrasonic record cleaner is finally making it into production. I have been watching the company for about a year, as the cleaner has moved from prototype to beta testing , and now to a limited production of the finalized (we’ll see ;-) version. The design is excellent, eliminating my reservations about the high-priced (around $4,000) ultrasonic cleaners, at a little over half their price (just over $2,000, last I read). The Degritter uses 120kHz as it’s ultrasonic frequency, and features water filtering and disc drying. It also looks cool, like a 1950’s toaster! Details available on the companys website.
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captain_winters
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120khz now that is interesting. Nice looking unit and looks well thought out with filtering and drying.  Was there ever a consensus on higher frequency 120khz vs lower frequency 40khz? I recall advocates on both sides of the argument.
I am still cleaning my records the "old fashioned" way with the VPI RCM, but willing to dive in to US cleaning. 
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millercarbon
12,531 posts
 
When it comes to cleaning records, or anything to do with getting the absolute best sound possible from them, I would defer to Better Records. They don't use ultra-sonic. They have by far the most pristine vinyl I've ever seen. They have by far the best sound I've ever heard. Pretty sure the machine they use is a lot more than $4k, but they also use Walker Enzyme Fluid for the bulk of the cleaning process. I would start with that.

Yeah sure its easy to take the position something else like in this case Degritter is at least as good if not better. Its ultrasonic! Blah. Blah. Blah.
I could not care less. Results are what counts in my book. Buy a couple Hot Stampers, hear how insanely good they are, realize they could not possibly be this good without an insanely good selection process- which includes cleaning with this- and then get back to me.

https://www.better-records.com/product.aspx?pf_id=rcm&rurl=
reubent
6,939 posts
 
2600 Euros on their website. So, almost $3000. No thanks. Although it does look awesome and should be effective. Just not in my price range. I'll stick with enjoying my records cleaned in my SpinClean. Not perfect, but not $3000 either......
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