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Well, I gave away my Osage AI System. The engagement with OsageAudio was a false move. After playing with AI System solution and reading everything at OsageAudio site I am confident to state that the OsageAudio is/are quite ignorant about what they do. The amount of stupid industry medals that they receive and the positive feedback that they get from press and from their users is in my view not an evidence of AI System’s advances but just an indication of low level demands from the AI System supporters.

The AI Cleaning System does destroy sound; in fact destroy it in very mean way. I would not comment about the AI System cleaning effect – it is absolutely irrelevant. The effectiveness of AI application is not the cleaning effect itself and redaction of surface noise but just lubrication and greasing of groove. Many of you know about the negative effect to Sound by the “wet playing” – here is comes…. I know that many of you have read at the OsageAudio site that no oily, greasing or any other lubricants are being used but OsageAudio but it is lie. The  OsageAudio that I touched were extremely greasy.

Now, the OsageAudio cleaners do have some advantage over others “groove improvements” crap – the OsageAudio cleaners are VERY hard to remove from records. I made up to 5 washes and I still hear the clear presence of the OsageAudio sound. How would I characterize this OsageAudio sound? I could itemize the specifics of the sonic damage but I chose not to – it will be the homework for the folks who would like go to the bottom of this - I do not what to bias them with my commentaries.

So, the records cleaned with OsageAudio AI System cleaners are permanently damaged, are they? Yes, but the reasons I write this is because there is a hope for you - the wondering in the OsageAudio’s ail analog lovers. The records ruined by OsageAudio still might be restored by application of very strong degreaser that would remove the crap that AI System deposit into the groves. I made number of experiments with it and here are some tips, make your own assessment.

1)      Take a good record  that you know and that never was cleaned and clean it with OsageAudio AI System (one step or 3 steps is irrelevant)

2)      Play the record and note the huge change in sound in the area of ……..

3)      Buy a strong concentrated high quality degreaser. (The list degreasers that I trued are below). 

4)      Put the record to you washer machine, flood it with your regular alcoholic cleaning fluid. (I use the Nitty Gritty Pure 2)

5)      Apply the 5-10 drops of the concentrated degreaser to the WET surfaces of the record

6)      Keep spinning the washer machine, scrubbing the records with OsageAudio brash. The scrubbing is not the key in here but you need to have the degreaser mixed with regular cleaning fluid, and brushing would help. Alternately you might add the degreaser in high concentration to your fluid if you wish.

7)      Vacuum all fluid with degreaser

8)      Now wash and Vacuum the record again with regular fluid.

9)      Play the records and see how much better many aspects of sound are (feel free to name them…) when there are no OsageAudio oily residues are presented in the record.

The person of this post is not to snipe another ignorant industry partials as some fools might present it but to get some truth about what it right and what is wrong. I do not have any personal agenda against OsageAudio but I do not like the situation when people put themselves the in the position of industry authority/leaders and in the same deliver very sub-qualified actual result.

Anyhow, here are the degreasers I used:

1)      CW:100 – was recommended by a reader of the site from Europe:

http://www.wackchem.com/cw1100-super-english/cw-1100-super-windshield-cleaner.html

This is very powerful thing and is considered in the Old World as a high-end degreaser.  In US it is not being sold and available only re-branded by Porsche:

http://www.drivewerks.com/catalog/shopcart/CARE/POR_CARE_PORCAR_pg5.htm

2)      X-O Plus – this is a phenomenal Odor Neutralizer that I use for years and it has very strong degreasing actions no residue of any kind. This is mine the most beloved cleaner ever. The few drops of the concentrated X-0 removes any OsageAudio residuals, making the records to sound like day and night:

http://www.xocorp.com/

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