Tom, my record cleaning and playing is almost exclusively just making personal digital copies of my own Lps - what would you suggest for routine cleaning of casual transfers? Anyone else can chime in as well.

Investing in an expensive machine for cleaning my old records is just not feasible. I only want to hear them again! :-)
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Lou Judson
Intuitive Audio
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On Jan 14, 2016, at 4:19 PM, Tom Fine <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

> By the way, I am NOT a fan of the Discwasher or similar "record cleaning brushes." They just don't clean out the grooves, in my experience. Only a wet cleaner with vacuum finish like a VPI or similar really cleans out the grooves. There is now an ultrasonic wet cleaning machine that the audiophile mags have raved about. I'd want to see some science (ie scanning microscope photos) to prove that it really cleans out a groove better than a VPI. The exception might be caked on grime, it's very possible that ultrasonic would blast out the grime whereas a brush and vacuum wouldn't. But this is not something typically found in cleaning LPs, I say that having cleaned thousands of LPs over the years.
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> -- Tom Fine