Are you absolutely positive that what you are hearing is really a residue, and not just groove wear on older records caused by some degree of mistracking when they were played often with vintage cartridges/arms many years ago?
Genie in a bottle
Hello,
This is my first posting to this forum. I'm a analog lover since the early sixties. In those days it was common (at least in Holland) playing records wet (Lenco Clean). We know better now. Because I've got some hundreds of records treated in this way, I cloned a VPI RCM. My hope was a device like that would be able to clean the former wet played records. And that is not the case. Although I tried all kind of cleaning fluids and methods, the result is not optimal. Still noise and the typical sound of the residu remaining in the grooves. The best result till now was obtained by the DiscDoctor fluid and brushes in conjunction of vacuuming the last rinse of distilled water.
Someone told me about Genie in a bottle. It's not for sale in Holland. Does anyone of you have experiences with that stuff? Would it be helpfull on cleaning the wet played records?
Or do you have another advice? I already did a search on the forum, but didn't find a answer.
I would be most gratefull if you could advice me.
regards,
Henk
This is my first posting to this forum. I'm a analog lover since the early sixties. In those days it was common (at least in Holland) playing records wet (Lenco Clean). We know better now. Because I've got some hundreds of records treated in this way, I cloned a VPI RCM. My hope was a device like that would be able to clean the former wet played records. And that is not the case. Although I tried all kind of cleaning fluids and methods, the result is not optimal. Still noise and the typical sound of the residu remaining in the grooves. The best result till now was obtained by the DiscDoctor fluid and brushes in conjunction of vacuuming the last rinse of distilled water.
Someone told me about Genie in a bottle. It's not for sale in Holland. Does anyone of you have experiences with that stuff? Would it be helpfull on cleaning the wet played records?
Or do you have another advice? I already did a search on the forum, but didn't find a answer.
I would be most gratefull if you could advice me.
regards,
Henk