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  • Revisiting Record Cleaning with Analogue Alchemist E3 Enzymatic Record Cleaner

    In this post (way too long, as always), I experiment with record cleaning using two different cleaning solutions: Analogue Alchemist E3 (£10/20ml concentrate) and Paul Rigby’s Ilfotol-based custom recipe (DIY, but quite inexpensive). I find no difference on new or newish discs with either solution, and some older discs with annoying surface noise don’t improve…

    October 11, 2020
    Hi-fi, Record cleaning
  • Washing Records with the Audio Desk Vinyl Cleaner Pro Ultrasonic and the Spin Clean

    In getting fully re-obsessed with (and re-committed to) vinyl in the last year, I knew I was putting myself on course for a collision for one of my least favourite things: washing records. Back in my last phase of vinyl obsession, in my mid-twenties (mid-aughts), I had a traumatic experience with vacuum cleaning. I bought…

    January 19, 2020
    Hi-fi, LP12 Modification Frenzy, Record cleaning, Records

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