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[tigers_gonads]

Well i've been a very lucky boy this week and the lad and missus have clubbed together for my birthday to buy me turntable 

I've spent the last couple of days picking fluff off the needle and enjoying the warm sound complete with pops of some of my old albums for the first time in about 20 years 

The thing is, all my albums have accumulated 20 years of shite so need a bloody good clean.

What are the OOF vinyl lovers out there using to clean their albums ?

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

It'll feel good to have a black twelve incher in your hands again, Mr Gonads.

[STEMO]

It'll feel good to have a black twelve incher in your hands again, Mr Gonads.

You never miss a trick, do you? 

[tigers_gonads]

It'll feel good to have a black twelve incher in your hands again, Mr Gonads.

Are you giving us the benefit of your vast experience again my lord 

[Kevin Wood]

Get yourself a "Disco Antistat".

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Knosti-Cleaning-Machine-Generation/dp/B000BFXIVW

 

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

It'll feel good to have a black twelve incher in your hands again, Mr Gonads.

Are you giving us the benefit of your vast experience again my lord 

My experience extends more toward black seven inchers.

.....of which I have fondled many.

My first vinyl was 'Wild west hero' by ELO. Around 1976/77 if memory serves.

[tigers_gonads]

Get yourself a "Disco Antistat".

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Knosti-Cleaning-Machine-Generation/dp/B000BFXIVW

 

A friend / customer has one of those Kev and swears by it 

Is that a good price for what is basically a plastic tub with a soft brush and a bottle of distilled water 

[tigers_gonads]

It'll feel good to have a black twelve incher in your hands again, Mr Gonads.

Are you giving us the benefit of your vast experience again my lord 

My experience extends more toward black seven inchers.

.....of which I have fondled many.

My first vinyl was 'Wild west hero' by ELO. Around 1976/77 if memory serves.

I do have a 12 inch version of Bon Jovi's, Never Say Goodbye in yellow which plays crap at the moment 
I don't know if I need Kevin's contraption or a visit to the doctors to make it better though 

[Field Marshal Dr. Opti]

It'll feel good to have a black twelve incher in your hands again, Mr Gonads.

Are you giving us the benefit of your vast experience again my lord 

My experience extends more toward black seven inchers.

.....of which I have fondled many.

My first vinyl was 'Wild west hero' by ELO. Around 1976/77 if memory serves.

I do have a 12 inch version of Bon Jovi's, Never Say Goodbye in yellow which plays crap at the moment 
I don't know if I need Kevin's contraption or a visit to the doctors to make it better though 

I think the hiss and crackle are all part of the experience.

Following this thread I must invest in a turntable myself.

I have the Stranglers 'No more heroes' album from 1977. 'Bring on the nubiles' and 'Something better change' being my favourites.

[tigers_gonads]

To true that

Imo, anything made before about 1986 when the first fully digital (DDD) compact discs came out will always sound better on good quality vinyl 

[zirk]

Moons ago when I used to work for Thorens / Ortofon as a Engineer we would always recommend people stay away from wet cleaners, as its a short fix only to haunt you second time around, try a get some old fashioned anti static wipe block, have a look on the Bay, a company called Metrosound used to make all kinds of stuff.

[Mr Gav]

When I get my chimney breast knocked out this year my turntable will be coming down from the loft, I`ve got various 12" singles plus over 300 albums to go through 

I`ve got one of those anti static blocks too, a fibre bottom with carbon brushes front and back 

[Bigron]

Zirk, that is spot-on! Once played "wet", as in the Lenco brush and reservoir system of those days, you will always have to play them wet. True, the cleaning fluid contains isopropyl alcohol, which is a good and safe solvent (especially important for stylus adhesive), but it cannot suck out the loosened debris like a deep cleanser.
I very much doubt that they are still in business, but Monks Audio used to offer such a service - if they still are, you won't need the capital outlay of a machine yourself.....

Ron.

[Kevin Wood]

Zirk, that is spot-on! Once played "wet", as in the Lenco brush and reservoir system of those days, you will always have to play them wet. True, the cleaning fluid contains isopropyl alcohol, which is a good and safe solvent (especially important for stylus adhesive), but it cannot suck out the loosened debris like a deep cleanser.
I very much doubt that they are still in business, but Monks Audio used to offer such a service - if they still are, you won't need the capital outlay of a machine yourself.....

Ron.

Point taken, but if you thoroughly clean them wet, the effect is permanent. Most vinyl these days is dirty enough that dry cleaning doesn't help, although I'll always clean with a fibreglass brush before playing.

A vacuum record cleaner is better, of course, but an order of magnitude more expensive than the Disco Antistat, which I've found good enough to render the roughest "charity shop vinyl" as good as new.

Imo, anything made before about 1986 when the first fully digital (DDD) compact discs came out will always sound better on good quality vinyl 

A lot of stuff since then is very poorly produced on CD too, and you simply can't get away with as much compression when making vinyl. Vinyl is undoubtedly a much poorer medium than CD from a technical perspective, but, the music available is better produced, for certain genres, at any rate. Classical music : CD every day of the week, though. Vinyl just doesn't have the dynamic range.

[STEMO]

When I get my chimney breast knocked out this year my turntable will be coming down from the loft, I`ve got various 12" singles plus over 300 albums to go through 

I`ve got one of those anti static blocks too, a fibre bottom with carbon brushes front and back 

Your chimney breast is blocking access to the loft? Weird.