Re: Cleaning Evolution (Long)

Posted by Don T on May 5, 2007 at 21:35:58

In Reply to: Cleaning Evolution (Long) posted by cjfrbw on May 5, 2007 at 12:23:32:

In my experiences most records that look clean and sound dirty are actually damaged and nothing can help them.

IMO if an audiophile takes care and only buys vinyl that appears to be clean they really don't need much more than a record brush. Of course this also depends on whether or not their replay system accentuates surface noise or not.

That all being said I one time I owned a VPI 16 and it made records sound cleaner. I'd say it reduce surface noise 90%. I didn't think this was enough to improve the play grade, and I was disappointed because the records I thought most would benefit from the cleaning showed no improvement as they were actually damaged.

Recently I bought a VPI 17 because I am selling records on eBay and it's nice being able to offer a vacuumed record for sale. But this thing seems to remove 99.9% of the surface noise and every record (except the damaged ones) end up play graded at least a grade higher after a cleaning.

Give me rhythm or give me death!

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Topic - Cleaning Evolution (Long) - cjfrbw 12:23:32 05/05/07 (18)

The problem with ultrasonic...... - tubesforever 23:29:08 05/05/07 (2)

About physical scrubbing vs. ultrasonics... - cjfrbw 01:27:52 05/06/07 (0)

Re: The problem with ultrasonic...... - Logan 01:17:40 05/06/07 (0)

Re: Cleaning Evolution (Long) - Don T 21:35:58 05/05/07 (0)

I use my Taiwanese ultrasonic cleaner for initial cleaning, and . . . - hiatt@alaska.net 20:17:15 05/05/07 (2)

That one looks great... - cjfrbw 20:29:07 05/05/07 (1)

exactly as discussed earlier..... - J.D. 15:48:27 05/06/07 (0)

Re: Cleaning Evolution (Long) - "Ron B" 17:31:27 05/05/07 (1)

My secret formula - cjfrbw 18:29:20 05/05/07 (0)

Re: Cleaning Evolution (Long) - nightdoggy 14:26:33 05/05/07 (2)

Re: Cleaning Evolution (Long) - cjfrbw 14:58:11 05/05/07 (1)

Re: Cleaning Evolution (Long) - nightdoggy 17:41:03 05/05/07 (0)

this is one of the first 'new' cleaning methods .. - J.D. 13:36:13 05/05/07 (5)

By way of illustration - cjfrbw 14:15:52 05/05/07 (4)

Re: By way of illustration - J.D. 15:01:55 05/05/07 (2)

Re: By way of illustration - dinchart 16:13:00 05/05/07 (1)

Re: By way of illustration - J.D. 19:30:07 05/05/07 (0)

You got a great deal - nightdoggy 14:44:51 05/05/07 (0)

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Re: Cleaning Evolution (Long) - Don T 21:35:58 05/05/07 (0)

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