http://www.soundfountain.com/amb/rc1.html
Interesting page, and secure terrain as it does not comment on musical quality. Nice graph at:
What does the Cleaning Liquid do?
Record and stylus cleaners
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Secure terrain? I'd rather say that as they don't judge musical quality, most of what's written is of very little practical interest.
It's nice to have you back here, Klaus. Before Christmas I listened through all the clips I had saved and the only pattern I could detect, was that I found the clips with the least amount of cleaning to sound most musical. But I don't have any clips with completely uncleaned records. I really wish I could hear a complete chain of what each treatment does. For example 30 seconds after each of the following steps:
Brand new and recently manufactured record
Degaussing
Step one cleaning (whichever is considered the best)
Step two cleaning (dito)
Etcetera until what is considered the best possible result by the cleaning advocates
Then one could do the same thing with an old an dirty record, one that really sounds worn to begin with.
Wouldn't that be really interesting?
It's nice to have you back here, Klaus. Before Christmas I listened through all the clips I had saved and the only pattern I could detect, was that I found the clips with the least amount of cleaning to sound most musical. But I don't have any clips with completely uncleaned records. I really wish I could hear a complete chain of what each treatment does. For example 30 seconds after each of the following steps:
Brand new and recently manufactured record
Degaussing
Step one cleaning (whichever is considered the best)
Step two cleaning (dito)
Etcetera until what is considered the best possible result by the cleaning advocates
Then one could do the same thing with an old an dirty record, one that really sounds worn to begin with.
Wouldn't that be really interesting?
Cleaning advocates news!
Firstly sorry that I did not manage yet to check/record cleaning history
from scratch. I must say my only 'new' record is a 45 rpm 'audiophile'
that sounds terrible.
Major news is in the line of London Cleaner: Use a window vac to dry
the records! It's meant seriously. Kärcher came out with equipment of
questionable value (imho) inteded to help with window cleaning. But
is sucks up liquids with almost no power (3W) and almost without any
air stream. This means that residues on the LP surface from evaporation
are mininized - what is highly desirable. It's a terrible all plastic piece,
but it is doing its job. Noise is alsmost absent (see power). A second
round of the LP using a felt strip absorber arm is needed to dry the LP
completely. I see no other method to take up the dirt water better.
http://s936.photobucket.com/albums/ad21 ... CF1932.mp4
Regards, Klaus
Firstly sorry that I did not manage yet to check/record cleaning history
from scratch. I must say my only 'new' record is a 45 rpm 'audiophile'
that sounds terrible.
Major news is in the line of London Cleaner: Use a window vac to dry
the records! It's meant seriously. Kärcher came out with equipment of
questionable value (imho) inteded to help with window cleaning. But
is sucks up liquids with almost no power (3W) and almost without any
air stream. This means that residues on the LP surface from evaporation
are mininized - what is highly desirable. It's a terrible all plastic piece,
but it is doing its job. Noise is alsmost absent (see power). A second
round of the LP using a felt strip absorber arm is needed to dry the LP
completely. I see no other method to take up the dirt water better.
http://s936.photobucket.com/albums/ad21 ... CF1932.mp4
Regards, Klaus
Loricraft PRC3. Just saying the vacuum on the tonearm that rests on new clean 100% cotton on each record side is quiet and removes all the wet residue. It is a focused vacuum that tracks across the record. Actually its fun to watch it work. No chance of record damage. No dirt transfer. It works and works very well.
But my FLACs are cleaner.
But my FLACs are cleaner.