I have a suggestion, having owned both the AD and the KL along with a big Monks:
a DIY using an ultrasonic bath that permits you to control heat and use a surfactant, plus one of those record rotisseries (I think the preferred one for little money is the Vinyl Stack) gives you more than the AD or KL.
It will cost you far less even if you use one of the uber German built US machines.
My preference is to point nozzle dry the records on the Monks, rather than forced air drying- I think it does a better job of removing the contaminants than blowing air on them. Point nozzles can be had used (Loricraft or perhaps Monks), used, but you have to make sure the machine works properly and hasn’t been abused. You could conceivably use a wand type vacuum cleaner, like a VPI, as a stopgap, but you lose some of the benefit.
At least put it under your hat if you can’t get a sharing program going. There is a good article by Rush Paul, posted on the ’Gon and appearing in Positive Feedback within the last year that discusses his findings- Rush drew from that vast DIY forum that had a crazy long thread on DIY ultrasonic. After I talked at length with a manufacturer of industrial ultrasonic equipment (factory sized lines), that manufacturer, who has been in business forever, convinced me that a surfactant makes a real difference. Getting it off, using a pure water rinse is also a reason to use a vacuum cleaner, rather than a forced air dryer.
So, a little more involved, cheaper, and very good results. That’s the direction I’m heading in for my next machine, with a few tweaks. (Rush recycles his bath water and filters it too, and I think used a relatively inexpensive (under $500) ultrasonic machine.
Have fun. To me, the combination of ultrasonic and point nozzle is fantastic!
