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Old 12-23-2020, 11:47 PM
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I see this combination method come up quite a bit, I'll chime in w/my experience. I would say 97% of the used LPs and 45s I buy are great condition, the only real beaters I have are some Sam Cooke 45s I bought really more just for collecting, the rest are all VG at least. I can think of a handful of times where the KLAudio wasn't able to remove fingerprints from 40+ year old records, my Okki Nokki is in storage otherwise I would've tried that seeing if the fluid and manual cleaning with a brush would've helped. I can also think of 3 late 50s/early 60s era LPs that I've cleaned with both machines and still have popcorn effect, I assume these are just damaged from past play. Actually all 3 of those were also cleaned with my Spin Clean when I first started getting into the cleaning process.

On the other hand I also buy 78s, many of which have sat around in who knows where collecting dust and dirt and some which still smell of cigarette smoke decades later. I've done digging where my hands are visibly dirty from sorting through records. Every now and again one will be filthy enough where I'll clean it with a rag and distilled water before placing it into the KLAudio. Even with 78s that don't look visibly dirty I've seen the water tank turn into pond water after a handful of cleaning cycles.

The point of all this rambling being--unless you are buying seriously dirty LPs and 45s, which even after a cleaning are likely not going to sound great, I'm not sure I see the need for both an ultrasonic cleaning and one with a brush/fluid. That's just my 2c after having dealt with some really nasty shellac over the years.


The problem with the Kirmuss is that the ultrasonic cleaning is only a small part of the process. The main part (that most have trouble with is the manual cleaning process - squirting the cleaning fluid and using elbow grease and a micro fibre cloth to clean the record. Before repeating the ultrasonic process again. Repeat ad infinitum.

By using a VCS2 - I was trying to automate the second step.
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Old 12-24-2020, 10:54 AM
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Has anyone owned or have the Isonic UC RCM? It comes in a 5 and 10 record cleaning version.

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That’s the one I have. Really works great . I’ve used it on some nasty LP’s with great luck
It’s pretty quiet as well. Love the drain on the side near the end.

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Old 12-24-2020, 02:57 PM
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That’s the one I have. Really works great . I’ve used it on some nasty LP’s with great luck
It’s pretty quiet as well. Love the drain on the side near the end.
Great.... thanks, I’ll save to my list as a strong consideration.
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