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Record cleaning

So I finally had the opportunity to fetch my system from my parents garage(1000 miles is a ways to lug a system as big as mine)  now, I want to clean the records. From what I've read, isoproponal? Is the alcohol to use for vinyl as it won't attack the plasticizers, by l but I also have a large inherited connection of 78's that won't be played because I don't have a player for them,  and I'm assuming they need different care. 

Now, I would prefer to use something that I either 1) already have, eg.  Simple green, 409, etc,  or 2) something that is available locally easily(which is hard, living in a town of 10,000, and 2 hours away from an established city) 

My system isn't very high quality,  it's a system from Sears from the 80's,  but I'm hoping that cleaning the vinyl will help increase the audio quality
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reubent
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If you are not sure that cleaning your records is going to increase the sound quality of your old records, you might want to buy a new record of some music you like or want to hear. You will be playing new, virgin vinyl on you system and will get a better understanding of the possibilities regarding the sound quality expectation.

If the sound you hear on the new record is good enough to warrant an investment in cleaning your old records, you could buy something like a Spin Clean and start cleaning your old records. The Spin Clean is a bath type cleaner. It's not the best cleaner in the world, but it is inexpensive and does a decent job. You can buy it from Audio Advisor, Music Direct and many other on-line dealers.
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