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>>I love listening to records, but hate cleaning them. I enjoy the results ...hate the process.<<

Well, unlike many here, my experiences with LP cleaning have not all been successful. In actual fact, very few of my LPs have ever been cleaned, and I much prefer to NEVER clean 'em. Moons ago on this same forum, I posted that exact thought, and got flaimed accordingly. Generally, I stand by my statement, simply because the very act of playing my already clean LPs ... actually keeps them "clean".

That said, I don't deny that cleaning helps ... but in my experience, it can also make an LP sound worse before sounding better. A prime example of this; I purchase a early stamped/pressing british harvest DSOTM LP not long ago, and proceeded to "clean" it with an enzyme formula (various formula's actually) and my vacuum system. After every cleaning, it loosened more & more dirt. The vacuum did remove a good portion ... but my stylus removed the vast majority of deeper/loosened dirt. Therefore it became a bit of a "cleaning-project", and it required more cleaning and subsequent playing in order to "clean" this particular LP.

Hell, I'm still in the "process" of cleaning that particular LP ...

tb1








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