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In the Forum: Analog Playback
In the Thread: Sensible record cleaning: vinyl piranhas and record Vaseline
Post Subject: How to tell if a record can be cleaned?Posted by drdna on: 11/15/2009
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 Paul S wrote:
I have certainly subjected some records to very rigorous cleaning and still they sounded "dirty".  This is one of the things I would love to check out with the stereo microscope.
It's funny, because I always have used the Sound to guide what I do and I have never seen the need to to anything beyond this. I have a microscope somewhere in the storage room and maybe I should get it out and take a look at these records. I think the only issue will be a light source.
 Paul S wrote:
I have long suspected that some of the commercial record treatments were not so much concerned merely with cleaning the record but they were at least as concerned with making good and certain that the record would sound noticeably "better" after treatment, regardless of the cause of the noise.  In this case, some sort of slippery "filler" might just do the trick for the micro-damaged LP grooves.
No question about it, especially when they tell you not to rinse the record after treating it because you will remove the "good effect." I always have found that these treatments add a weird plastic sheen to the music that I hate.

 Paul S wrote:
As for the full-tilt RCM cleaning, do people really do this more than once per LP?
I hate cleaning records, because as you can imagine it takes a long time for me to do so.  Unless I spill a soda on it, a record gets cleaned only one time, after I buy it and if I think it is needed.Adrian

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