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In Reply to: RE: I also use my vacuum cleaner. But ony use tap water, then blot dry. Then final with the vac.. Works fine. nt posted by Elizabeth on April 16, 2014 at 08:57:16
Back when I first started wet cleaning/vacuuming, I tried many combinations of cleaners and rinses and found that grocery store distilled water as a rinse put noise back on the record.
I also found that 2 applications of most any cleaner beat one application of the best cleaner.
Now I clean with Mobile Fidelity (RRL) Super Deep and vacuum, then a Super Wash rinse and vacuum. Result is very quiet, good sounding LPs.
Seems there's always at lest one poster in these threads that insists his method leaves a disc totally noise free. Don't know what to make of that. Did his service in the Artillery?
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The play after the wash is the key to just using tap water.
If i play right after i rinse it off/dry it. It sounds fine. AND will not have crackle afterwards either.
If I would just put it aside and play a few days later? no, it is noisy.
So YES the record does have something left which playing it right off takes care of.
Really.
There was a "wet playing" craze 7 or 8 years ago that went away but I wonder if it isn't a good idea, regardless of the liquids used, to play immediately after vacuuming as Elizabeth suggests.
do you really want your stylus to serve as a groove-cleaner? I don't. I wonder whether Elizabeth has examined her stylus under a microscope, post-play post-cleaning.
However, I think it is more likely that Elizabeth's observation has to do with static electricity build-up, which if correct makes the whole point moot.
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