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In the Thread: Sensible record cleaning: vinyl piranhas and record Vaseline

Post Subject: Audio Desk Systeme ultrasonic record cleaning machinePosted by mem916 on: 12/11/2011

I just received mine on Friday. I am amazed at how easy to use and this machine is and how convenient it is compared to my old VPI. I always dreaded cleaning records with the VPI. With the audio desk I put the record in, push a button, come back in 5 or 6 minutes to a clean (both sides at once) and dry record ready to play. I put it in another room so I can clean at the same time I listen. It isn't noisy during cleaning but the fan during drying is fairly loud. Still nothing at all like the loudness of the VPI! I had to wear earplugs with that thing and it was still too loud.

I think there must be something to the theory that there is debris down in the grooves that the VPI and other similar machines cannot get out, based on the difference I hear after cleaning with the new machine. I admit that I have not yet done a serious test though. I only took a record that had been previously cleaned with the VPI and played once, sealed back up in an outer-cover. When I get around to it I will clean one with the VPI, play it, and then clean it again with the audio desk and compare the difference. And if I get real ambitious I'll record the results and post them somewhere. But I can tell you simply based on convenience alone this thing is worth the money to me.

Mark

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