Spin-Clean Record Washer Kit | Vinyl Record Cleaner | Record Cleaning Kit | Alcohol-Free Solution | Snap-in Rollers | Wedge-Fit Brushes | 2 Lint-Free Drying Cloths | Perfect for 33, 48 & 78 RPM

So I have a little over 300 records ranging from new and/or un-valuable everyday records all the way up to sealed 1st presses and "White Label" promos and rare pressings. But the thing I had never invested in was a RCM.I had collected many records that visually looked great but upon play were full of static, pops, and crackles to the point of being un-listenable. Most recently I had found a first pressing of Pink Floyd "Animals" for super cheap that was so full of static I couldn't listen to more than 3 minutes of it.I buy records online, via garage sales, books stores, record shops, and anywhere else I can hunt down what I'm looking for for the best $$$. Many are dusty, stored in their original paper or cardboard sleeves, and just overall haven't lived a sheltered life (I prefer original/vintage records when possible which doesnt help).After becoming extremely frustrated when I got about 7 out of 10 records with an unacceptable amount of noise I decided I needed to do something about it. I had been planning to buy a new phono cartridge, but decided before I went and invested $100s in a new cartridge upgrade, maybe I needed to upgrade to something more effective at cleaning my collection than my hand washing and micro fiber towel method since I buy all these previously loved records and it wasnt measuring up!!Enter the Spin Clean. I want to buy an ultrasonic cleaner soon but figured this would at least tell me if some of these records were salvageable. So I ordered it, got it in, and immediately tackled my most severe records.Here are my finds after cleaning most of my records and now months of use:1) Don't use the rags. They leave lint behind! Get yourself a drying rack (dish rack will do if you are careful and deliberate.2) Throw out the Spin Clean cleaner and buy you a bottle of TERGIKLEEN!! That stuff saves this cleaner! It makes it way more effective and for $30 you can make 30 gallons!3) Use distilled water. I tried first using highly filtered water from my water machine but it left spots if not wiped off immediately.4) Wash about 10 records in a row and let them drip dry! After you wash 10, go back and remove droplets of water with the rags. This allows you to wash more records without soaking your rags and not having to stop as much.5) If you have records that have not been cleaned in a long time only do 10-15 max then change water as the water gets murky and there will be dusty silk in the bottom of the bin you could stir up.6) SUUUUUPER crackly records may require 2 sessions to get all the static out.7) Finally spin records 2 times each way then leave sit for 3 mins. Now spin the 6 times each way and back 2 times the other.8) Now rinse the Tergikleen off with a squirter bottle, clean the Spin Clean out, squeeze out the brushes and fill with distilled water and run each record through a rinse bath. 3 times each way.9) Set in drying rack to drip dry then once complete re-sleeve and store.So what has the outcome been. Well I am happy to report all my records became near quiet (you will never get complete silence) and even my worst ones became close to new. After doing them there was a brown silt in the bottom and they gleamed like new. Also my stylus hasn't needed cleaned NEARLY as often.So in conclusion, it may require a bit of trial and error, along with a better cleaning solution but this system works so well I even bought a second so I can have a wash AND a rinse one. This little gadget has saved my records and breathed life into records I thought were goners. Just today I bought a 48 year old "White Label" Promo that was extra noisy. After running it through this, it is as good as new records I own (As far as noise). So while other more expensive methods might work better; this is enough for most. Buy it and clean all your records, they will sound better, last longer, and save damage to your equipment. Now I can move forward with a nicer cartridge knowing my records are all clean and sounding their best!! Worth every penny!!!

Works great! So much dirt and grime in the bottom of the tray after cleaning 20 records. This does the trick. Sounds much crisper when played without the hidden grime in the grooves. Only wish they included 4 drying cloths. After about 15-20 records the cloths are saturated and need to be washed and dried before continuing with more cleaning.

For fifty years I have been very cautious with my vinyl records. When RSD brought me back to the hobby, I only bought new 180g. As I learned more about older pressings, I soon found out that with shipping from Discogs they were pretty expensive as well. So now I visit my local shop and spend anywhere from $3 to $10 for a spin. I initially had some anxiety about cleaning lps with liquid, but this does the job and it’s pretty fun as well. My brother has a pretty cool $1000 set up for cleaning his records, but I have to say this is perfect for me. For $3 I can clean up an old record, put it in a new sleeve and enjoy. Great.

I've been buying used albums of late - I take a look at them before I buy them, and they look to be in pretty good condition, but a few were so filthy the sound would go grainy, and I'd have to stop and clean the gunk off the stylus. Decided to give this product a try - cleaned 5 or 6 albums, including one we'd had for a while. When I was finished, I told my wife I'd try our old favorite, a Doc Watson record. My wife said, "oh, that won't be a good test, that record is so old and crackly you can barely hear the music."I dropped the stylus, and... silence... until the music started. Between cuts, silence, but for one stray pop. Put on one of the recent used purchases, and likewise, totally transformed.Houston, we have no problem.Yeah, it's pricey - better just to use Mister Bubble and a nylon scrub brush, yeah?

Like many others, I started cleaning my vinyl records 30+ years ago with a discwasher brush and solution. Fast forward many years and a renewed interest in vinyl. I still have my awesome discwasher brush (the original is much better than the ones they are selling now) that works great with a 50/50 solution of distilled white vinegar and distilled water but wanted a better cleaning system as I suspected that wet cleaning with a brush got some of the junk but just moved some of the groove dirt from one spot to another. I purchased this highly regarded Spin-Clean Record Washer and used that as a second stage (after using the brush). This worked well as the brush got the majority of the gunk (especially from garage sale/thrift store vinyl) and then the SpinClean really scrubbed it well, leaving a nice shiny clean album. But, I wasn't thrilled with manually drying the wet album using the SpinClean cloths and/or some microfiber cloths I purchased. I realized that the solution in SpinClean got dirty pretty quickly and drying the vinyl removed some of that but not all of it from the record. That plus I had to put the albums on a dish rack to allow them to dry for an hour os so before putting them into new sleeves. That really limited the number of albums I could clean and also allowed dust to settle onto the drying albums. (I recommend these internal sleeves MOBILE FIDELITY - MFSL INNER SLEEVES (PKG 50) and suggest you always put clean albums in new sleeves! Otherwise you are just reintroducing dirt and grime to a clean record.) So I began looking for an affordable solution to the drying situation. By chance I got a catalog from Audio Advisor and saw they had a new RCM (Record Cleaning Machine) Record Doctor - V - Record Cleaning Machine for just under 2 bills. I read some online reviews and it got really good comments so I ordered one directly from Audio Advisor. It worked really well as step 3 i.e. taking the album from SpinClean and putting it on the Record Doctor V to suck all the dirty wet solution off. Fantastic results. I recently added one more step, realizing that the record was really wet coming from SpinClean. After using SpinClean, I lay the album on a 16x16 microfiber cloth Eurow Microfiber 16 x 16 in. 300 GSM Cleaning Towels 12-Pack (Blue) and lightly blot the top and bottom to get the heavy fluid off. I then put the damp, still wet, just not soaking wet, album on the Record Doctor V. Absolutely perfect. The advantage for this step, which may or may not be worthwhile to most people is that the record was completely dry after 3 turns versus 4 to 4 1/2 when I did a light blot of the solution using the microfiber cloth prior to using the record doctor. So, for a total of less than 3 bills, I have a fantastic system that scrubs my albums clean and then sucks the wet solution off leaving me a dry pristine album. And it allows me to clean records faster as I don't have to wait for them to dry on a dish rack before putting them into a new sleeve.My approach in summary:1. For dirty/used albums, wipe first with a good brush (original discwasher, or new Mobile Fidelity Brush) and solution. I use a 50/50 solution of distilled water and distilled white vinegar. You can skip this step for albums that you have that are new or already pretty clean. But doing this step also keeps your SpinClean solution cleaner and usable for more albums.2. Run the album thru SpinClean, slowly 3 times in each direction. 4 if the album is really dirty.3. (optional) place album on a microfiber cloth and put another cloth on top of it and very gently blot up the heavy fluid, leaving the record still pretty damp.4. Put album on the Record Doctor V, turn it on, spin slowlyl 3 times and power off. Flip album over and repeat.5. Put the record in a new inner sleeve.I hope this has been helpful. I purchased the Record Doctor V directly from Audio Advisor and was very happy with how quickly they shipped it and even sent me Fed-Ex tracking information and updates. I purchased the Spin-Clean directly from Amazon and received it very quicly.