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Best Record Cleaning Fluid
Greetings All,
I’ve spend the last few days searching and reading about record cleaning fluids for my cleaning machine (Okki Nikki). Wow - there are a lot of options out there. Many more than I originally thought. Some real esoteric stuff that costs a pretty penny. I’m currently going through my entire collection, cleaning it, listening to it and adding it to a Discogs DB. Want to finally know how many I have and have a list of them. But doing this has resulted in me going through cleaning fluid rather quickly.
So many options, so many perspectives on what are the best fluids. What do you all say. I understand that alcohol is a no-no for fluids, but I can’t find out if some of them include alcohol or not. Currently using up the fluid that came with the machine, but no where can I read it if has bad ingredients.
The 2-stage or 3-stage cleaning systems are not going to happen. I did get a bottle of Revolv that I was told was good, and use if for new high quality pressings (as opposed to those I bought in high school).
Anyway, would appreciate some perspectives on good quality record cleaning fluids that don’t bust the bank. Thanks for keeping the sarcasm in check.
Happy Listening,
I’ve spend the last few days searching and reading about record cleaning fluids for my cleaning machine (Okki Nikki). Wow - there are a lot of options out there. Many more than I originally thought. Some real esoteric stuff that costs a pretty penny. I’m currently going through my entire collection, cleaning it, listening to it and adding it to a Discogs DB. Want to finally know how many I have and have a list of them. But doing this has resulted in me going through cleaning fluid rather quickly.
So many options, so many perspectives on what are the best fluids. What do you all say. I understand that alcohol is a no-no for fluids, but I can’t find out if some of them include alcohol or not. Currently using up the fluid that came with the machine, but no where can I read it if has bad ingredients.
The 2-stage or 3-stage cleaning systems are not going to happen. I did get a bottle of Revolv that I was told was good, and use if for new high quality pressings (as opposed to those I bought in high school).
Anyway, would appreciate some perspectives on good quality record cleaning fluids that don’t bust the bank. Thanks for keeping the sarcasm in check.
Happy Listening,
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Here is the best dissertation I could find on the subject in layperson's terms.
http://pspatialaudio.com/pvc.htm As Regan said, "Facts are funny things." MFSL is a marketing firm. I have purchased their stuff since the early 80's. I have the completes Beatles set and the complete Stones Set as well as several UHQ discs like Crime of the century. Their game was to try and use virgin vinyl and better pressing plants so they could lower the gain so everybody's cartridge had an easy time tracking, and boost the bass which a lot of us complained about. Unfortunately, the lower gain created records that got unacceptably noisy if treated anything but absolutely perfect. Today's MFSL when compared to Analog Productions and a lot of the old European classical stuff is second rate. It is better than routine stuff for sure but it is not the last word and I certainly do not plan on buying any of the new UHQ records for that kind of money especially when I can get most of the stuff the market in high def digital down loads. However their PVC is compounded makes no difference. The very small quantity of carbon black added to PVC 0.2% makes absolutely no difference in the quality of the sound so using a substitute probably means nothing. As long as virgin vinyl is used the quality of the pressing is determined more by technique and cleanliness. By the way as you can read in the link above most of the stuff compounded into the vinyl has nothing to do with sound quality but rather to prevent problems that occur with the process. |
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