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Footballcube
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Posted: 05 Oct 2022 at 8:52am |
Looking to clean up my old 12" LPs from 70s until present day.
With no local service near me any feedback and suggestions welcome for purchasing a cleaning machine particularly suction type cleaners and ultrasonic variants. Have around 400 LPs and budget around £400 ish. Thanks
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Mikeh
Senior Member Joined: 04 Dec 2018 Location: Yorkshire Status: Offline Points: 541 |
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I bought my Moth RCM secondhand from Steve on this Forum. A good machine, built like a tank which does a good job but is v noisy. I don't knowwthat there's much difference in results from RCMs, they all work on the same process it's a matter of build quality vs price.
There is a new ultrasonic cleaning machine started selling direct from Hong Kong at a reasonable price. Seems to get pretty good feedback from owners on other forums. Might be worth looking up HumminGuru. I have no direct experience with ultrasonic cleaners.
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Mike
Technics sl1210g with Victor U-2 Accession MM, Majestic + Proprius, Solo ULDE Cambridge Audio CXC CD player Lindemann Limetree Bridge streamer Harbeth P3ESR XD paired with 2x REL t5x |
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Footballcube
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Thanks Mike I will check out both the Moth and Humminguru RCMs.
Need to also consider the on going spares availability as well. |
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Fatmangolf
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£400 should get you a good brush and suck machine. Okki Nokki, Prxjxct, etc.
Edited by Fatmangolf - 08 Oct 2022 at 5:22pm |
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Jon
Open mind and ears whilst owning GSP Genera, Accession M, Accession MC, Elevator EXP, Solo ULDE, Proprius amps, Cusat50 cables, Lautus digital cable, Spatia cables and links, and a Majestic DAC. |
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RichW
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I've used the Moth RCM for many years and recommend it. I use it with Moth RCM fluid.
The supplied domestic brush was recently replaced with an Analogue Studio goat's hair brush and this is recommended.
A machine like this is far better than cleaners that use a bath of fluid & brushes but do not vacuum. |
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Majestic/Enigma, Accession MM & MC.
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patientot
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Been using a vac-based machine for years. Will probably try ultrasonic at some point. I've had some US-cleaned LPs from a few sellers before and they were very quiet in the groove.
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SL-1200 MK7 (modified) + Reflex M + PSU-1 used with AT150-40ML, AT VM95ML, Stanton 680mkII + Ogura, and Shure M35X cartridges.
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Bi-wire
Senior Member Joined: 21 Jan 2011 Location: Shropshire, UK Status: Offline Points: 283 |
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I moved away from the vac-based approach when my Okki Nokki went wrong and couldn't get it sorted out. I bought an ultrasonic cleaner and feel that it gets equally good results - possibly better - and is quieter. It is also quicker as it can handle six records at a time, but the one drawback is that it doesn't dry the record after cleaning. I leave them on the machine spindle standing vertically on a towel and turn them occasionally to dry 'naturally'. All-in-all, I prefer the ultrasonic machine.
My machine is an ARC-02 bought from: audiorevita.com
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Peter
Satisfied user of: Revelation M, PSU1-Enigma, Solo SRGII and lots of CuSat50 |
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