Thanks for the word of caution about Photo Flo. Do you know if the solvent in Photo Flo could adversely affect the LP at all?
Ultrasonic record cleaners
I have a modest lp collection, mixed bag of original college age purchases, used records before the current renewed interest, and some newer albums to replace some older issues from the p mount needle days. Have a vpi 16 machine and audio intelligent form 6 fluid. I’m not finding a significant improvement on my noisier issues. The price of ultrasonic cleaners have come down to a price I would consider. Appreciate the experiences of those who have purchased the ultrasonic machines, are they superior to my vpi and are the less expensive models effective?
TIA
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So, with my new, updated ultrasonic LP cleaning process, I do notice a significant improvement in sound quality. The updated process has made my slightly noisy LP’s (static, pops, etc) almost silent, with only an occasional static pop noted. The LP’s that I formerly couldn’t even listen to because of the surface noise (mostly static-type noise) are now very listenable; although there is still noticeable surface noise, it is greatly diminished (I would roughly estimate a 75% drop in surface noise). Overall, it’s quite an improvement, and I’m beginning to wonder if longer, and a few more cleaning cycles may even clean up those troublesome LP’s that were formerly unlistenable. . . Thanks to everyone for their input, and thanks to @antinn for sharing his knowledge. I don’t suppose that there’s a hard copy of your book available for purchase? (I generally don’t like clicking on links to "download" items because of virus and malware risks.) |
Good to hear of the improvements. The book is only available free by download, Precision Aqueous Cleaning of Vinyl Records-3rd Edition - The Vinyl Press. Bill Hart @whart runs a tight ship as they say, and I can only guess that the book (pdf) has been downloaded many, many times with no one ever indicating any malware or virus. The document was scanned for viruses and malware before being posted and the (my) computer that was used to write the document has a very high cyber security posture and the book is password protected from making any changes. If you download the book, before opening, with MSWindows you can right-click and there will be an option to scan the document for viruses/malware. |
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