Unless you buy You brand new and often even then your vinyl recordings are probably dirty. New records are static and attract dust; Old records have set in boxes in basements from other peoples. Take it from someone who has bought, sold, found, cleaned and restored some dusty, oily gemstones: your panels probably need a good bathroom.
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Updated March 2025: We added information about ultrasound cleaning, updated the formatting and checked on the left and prices.
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Why wiping will not work
If you do that A quick Amazon searchYou will find a lot of products that pretend to clean viny running drawings. Usually they use sprays and any shape of the wiping device like a cloth or a pad to clean the surface. Vinyl -Grooves Are so small that the fibers of a cloth can impossible inside. While you may get the cleaning of liquid into the grooves, it is quite difficult to get them out. This means that the traditional devices for the engine or the devices in the spin-and-screan style usually only distribute the dirt in the grooves.
Vacuum intake or ultrasound cleaner come in here. Unusual record equipment machines such as This from Pro eject ($ 450) Use a plate and a vacuum system to physically suck the evil cleaning solution from the grooves, with an engine turning the recording in two directions. Ultrasound cleaners use high frequency sound to shake dirt from the grooves. Both work very well to ensure that dirt, dust and dirt actually come from the tiny grooves in their record.
Tools of trade
If you go the suction route, you can make an all-in-one recording cleaner like that of Pro-Project or if you feel economical, you can simply buy one These fantastic attachments (30 US dollars) For a small business vacuum.
Then you only need everything you need Cleaning solution ($ 35)A Cheap brush ($ 7)Present A Vacuum ($ 50)And an old turntable or a spindle to turn the record while you vacuum the solution from the grooves. Look for old in second -hand shops because you only need a table that is physically rotating, not music. I had amazing results to clean my records with this system and to bring crispy old plates to shiny clean masterpieces in a few minutes.
If you want to record ultrasound (preferably for people who have big collections because they can clean several discs at the same time), I recommend that A generic middle school like this ($ 425). (A Premium model They will lead about twice as much, but it does exactly the same.) The ultrasound cleaner vibrates the cleaning solution around the panels by a super high frequency, which helps the grain and dirt to fall directly into the cleaning basin when it revolves around the enclosed engine. As soon as you are clean, just place them on the included drying stand.
