Looking for advise and recommendations on a nice record cleaner.

Definitely look at Nessie. Beautifully constructed, quiet and effective. I replaced my VPI a few years ago. The difference was like night and day.

@uavnola 

I own the Humminguru Ultrasonic cleaner. It was $500 when I bought it new about a year ago. It runs at 40 MHz (?) Lower than the much more expensive models. I think it does a really fine job. If it doesn’t clean it well enough the first time I run it through again. Record surfaces look shiny and dust free. It began as a startup. Their challenge was to build the best $500 record cleaner that could possibly be made. I don’t know about the $3500 models, this seems to work just fine. I use one drop of dispersant. Says you’re not supposed to use anything, but I think the records do even better if you have a drop or so of something. No alcohol! Ever!
FYI. I’ve been cleaning records for a long time. I bought my first LP in 1964. I’ve tried everything this works the best for me!

Bent

 

I go to my neighborhood audio store where they charge 50 cents for cleaning a record. It would take 400 records to break even and I probably have less than a 100 now.

And as Kurt Vonnegut said about a hundred envelopes....

I own and have used two record cleaning devices, and I use them to clean both brand new, and LPs I have purchased used.

The record doctor vacuum, and a generic ultrasound bath that has a record "rotator" device clamped onto it.

The ultrasound definitely cleans more grit and dirt out of the grooves that the record doctor vacuum. It is unbelievable how much quiter that records are after a good ultrasound cleaning.

However my ultrasound does not have a dryer so there is some manual drying work after they get their bath.

The record doctor vacuum can help but I use it a lot less now that I have the ultrasound.

If I could only have one cleaning machine, it would be the ultrasound.

The down side of the ultrasound is that it requires a 10 minute cycle. So not so desirable for cleaning prior to each play. For that I just use a spray cleaner and a microfibre. Just have to be careful about static.

But once you listen to a record that has been recently cleaned with ultrasound, you won’t give it up...

p.s. sorry for the typos, just had hand surgery,,,

@dogberry

From their spec sheet:. Drying is also handled safely with blowers