We Vinyl Ultrasonic or Vacuum Cleaner?

@neonknight which ultrasonic do you have?  My HumminGuru takes little to no effort to use so I was confused about your comment about how much commitment was required for your ultrasonic clean.

My prior Happy Buy (which is similar to the Vevor many people mention) took all kinds of time and effort which is why I moved on from that product.  It sounds like that may be what you are using?  I would highly suggest looking at a single disc ultrasonic, as they require almost no effort at all.

@vinylshadow I have a PRC-4 Deluxe (pre-SME) and Degritter MkI, and I have used them in all sorts of combinations, settling on using the Loricraft first with L'Art du Son liquid followed by a DW rinse. The Degitter I use with DW alone afterwards (on Heavy) so there is no need for another rinse. I then replace the inner sleeve with a new one. I do this with all records once and then repeat only when I notice any surface noise. The Degritter definitely adds something, and it is rare that a record has any remaining noise, and if one does it is usually a scratch rather than dirt. Either machine alone is about 80-85% as good. The whole process probably takes 20 minutes per disk and is done before the first play.

Seems to be par for the course. We get a TOTL choice that costs eye watering money, or we get a choice from budget conscious sellers that sells for minimum cost and performance, and little to nothing in between. 

Spent a bit of time looking at the Humminguru and it looks like a Degritter, but has the power levels of a Vevor tank or less. Perhaps the smaller wash chamber offsets the power needs. But not even a shadow of the ultrasonic strength.

Have yet to get a new record that isn't already dirty. There is usually a film on the record. Also packed in cheap paper, so bit of that on the record as well. 

First thing I do when opening up a new record, clean it, then put new sleeves on the inner and outer parts. 

The couple times a new uncleaned record has been played, my needle had crud all over after one side. On time thought it was a bad recording, turns out it was a dirty needle

@dogberry Thanks!

I've been using Sleeve City's Diskeeper Audiophile Inner sleeves. Which do you prefer. 

I never thought about continually replacing inner sleeves. Replacing the sleeve after each cleaning is really going for it! Expensive but I guess there's a payoff.