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It does look like a start up product and so lacks all the fancy covers of full production devices- it also lacks the high price that comes with that. I usually have to air dry my LPs after Nitty Gritty cleaning anyway as I find that strong as the vacuum is, trace fluid is left behind and causes some crackling noise. Likewise, you can walk away from the drying LPs. It is built for batch work, but you can walk away and come back to turn it off and remove the LPs. Even LPs that had been cleaned on a traditional vacuum type cleaner still shed some dirt, which you could see afterwards since it was trapped in the fluid recirculation filter. You will not want to run it while listening to music as the US is noisy, though not nearly as much as my Nitty Gritty. I had a chance to watch the machine work at the show and I think it does what it advertises. Visit the ultrasonicrecords website for more information. The disadvantages are that you have to wait forty five minutes before you can play a cleaned record and between the vat and the drying rack it takes up a great deal of space. The advantages of the machine are that it cleans eight records simultaneously and at $1495, is reasonably priced. Eight minutes later, the cleaned records are removed from the spit and put on a dish rack-like drying device.
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The device consists of a square stainless steel vat filled with heated distilled water, some isopropyl alcohol and a few drops of Photoflo, which acts as a surfactant into which is placed an ultrasonic element associated with a 7 micron filtered circulation pump.Įight records separated by thick wooden discs loaded onto a motor-turned spit, kebob-style, rotate in the ultrasonically agitated solution. They also aren't to hard to build and some are available for realistic and feasible prices though not the ones in this video.In the Magnolia Ballroom at Capital Audiofest 2013, along with a great selection of used vinyl, David Ratcliff, the inventor of the Ultrasonic V-8 ultrasonic record cleaning machine demonstrated how it works. If you have a big collection they may be worthwhile. Here are some very pricey vacuum machines. Kirmuss will sell you very expensive (overpriced imho) ultrasonic machines which he claims "have the correct frequency" to clean records which "other ultrasonics don't". Now there are various ways to automate the process. The rinse water should be the purest water you can get your hands on. All you really need is two laboratory squirt bottles (one for cleaning solution which is tap water, Dawn or similar non particulate containing detergent and about 3-4% of the alcohol of your choice (not for shellacs) Maybe a few drops of Kodak PhotoFlo or dishwasher "Finish". Record cleaning is one of those areas that are subject to audiophile "Majic". Perhaps Knosti Antistat liquids instructions call for rinsing. (There was a school of thought which I always thought was ridiculous that you should play records "wet") Water and low alcohols reduce static electricity. When dirt is warshed off of record surfaces the detergent should be rinsed well with deionized or distilled water.
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The amount of noise reductions obtained by having less static ( which could indeed be considerable) could be countered by residue left on the surface. I would not apply antistatic containing solutions to records.