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Nitty Gritty Mini Pro 2 vs the competition
I have owned a NG for about 10 years. It has served me well over those years.
I had to send it back to NG last week as it was leaking. After cleaning 15 or so records water would drip through the bottom plate. Removed it and noticed that the entire undercarriage was saturated with condensation dripping everywhere. Long story short, Gayle at NG was very helpful and the likely cause is a compromised seal. Heat, which this machine generates with water (a leak) will cause condensation. They will fix it as new she says.
What i really like about the NG is that you can clean (or rinse as i do with purified water) both sides at the same time. I am not very familiar with other cleaning machine designs (VPI, Loricraft, Monk, Clearaudio Matrix, etc) but i believe that they do not let you clean both sides of a record at the same time. The drawback is, when you flip the record over, that dirty side was touching the platter (or mat), now you have the side that you have just cleaned touching that platter (or mat) that has just "seen" the dirty side of that record.
I am debating if i should sell & replace my NG when it is returned from NG and go with a more "quiet" design but without the drawback i have mentioned above.
Any comments, opinions, suggestions welcomed. If you say keep your NG that's fine too. I do not want to replace it just for the sake of it.
Thanks
I had to send it back to NG last week as it was leaking. After cleaning 15 or so records water would drip through the bottom plate. Removed it and noticed that the entire undercarriage was saturated with condensation dripping everywhere. Long story short, Gayle at NG was very helpful and the likely cause is a compromised seal. Heat, which this machine generates with water (a leak) will cause condensation. They will fix it as new she says.
What i really like about the NG is that you can clean (or rinse as i do with purified water) both sides at the same time. I am not very familiar with other cleaning machine designs (VPI, Loricraft, Monk, Clearaudio Matrix, etc) but i believe that they do not let you clean both sides of a record at the same time. The drawback is, when you flip the record over, that dirty side was touching the platter (or mat), now you have the side that you have just cleaned touching that platter (or mat) that has just "seen" the dirty side of that record.
I am debating if i should sell & replace my NG when it is returned from NG and go with a more "quiet" design but without the drawback i have mentioned above.
Any comments, opinions, suggestions welcomed. If you say keep your NG that's fine too. I do not want to replace it just for the sake of it.
Thanks