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In Reply to: Re: Fred J is off his meds again! posted by Fred J on December 20, 2005 at 12:11:47:
I think people get pretty whacky with record cleaning and some of the things that we hear about do amaze me. I have a Signet wet cleaning brush (which is basically a SOTA, D4 brush!) at home that I use regularly. I also use a Nitty Gritty 2.5 machine on occasion.
I think that I already outlined what I thought of it in the first post on the subject here, but just to recount:
For typically clean looking Lp's, a spin on the vacuum record cleaning machine is all that is required. For Lp's that have been cleaned by that method already, just a slap with the D4 device or a carbon fiber brush will do unless you have managed to get it dirty again somehow. Finally, for records that you find at a one-off type of sale or even at a used record store that does not clean them (most record shops either clean them or simply don't trade in dirty Lps), you probably do need to clean them by scrubbing with a D4 or similar prior to a vacuum record cleaning. I don't have the patience to allow a solution to rest and do its job, so i just use the single ingredient (Pure 2) and add my own elbow grease. A hard, flat surface such as a countertop and then a soft bath towel laid on top makes a great, absorbent work surface. So in that case, I would recommend you to scrub a record with the solution first to break free the really deep, stubborn crud. Then the vacuum machine will remove all of the dissolved particles.
The only trouble with a record cleaning machine alone is that it simply doesn't scrub hard enough for really grungy stuff. It will certainly clean any record that doesn't look dirty by removing all the stuff that you can't see but it really just knocks about half of the stubborn, ground-in crud from the grooves, if you are lucky. So it all boils down to where you get your records and what you consider to be clean (I would like to think that we can all agree that no pops or sissle sounds on playback is clean).
I don't side with MF because he is MF and I don't like the Orbirator much either, but find it is simply a choice that will work if that is what you have in your arsenal. I have always used the Discwasher D4 (that is what I sell here) and then the Signet job which is basically the same thing, built to a higher level but was only available for a few years from what I have gathered. That has worked for me for many years and many repeat plays.
-Bill
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