The permanent filtering of the liquid prevents it from accumulating coarse dirt particles. This ensures a consistent cleaning result. Of course, as you might expect, manual cleaning is the cheapest option but often it’s the choice fraught with the most pitfalls. Mainly because this budget sector is filled with vinyl zealots who verge on the insane, cranks, conspiracy theorists, the militant and the downright weird. And that’s just my friends I’m talking about. Never mind everyone else. You don’t know who to believe, half the time. Some independent cleaning solutions seem guaranteed, not to clean you records, but melt them into a waxy lump

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The combination of ultrasonic cleaning and our proven goat hair brush system ensures gentle, groove-deep cleaning of your records and an audible improvement in the sound image. My turntable also drowned in the floods but a good mate has fixed it. I will get it next week and add a play test to this report. The old Linn Sondek with its solid plinth is a tough bird Some features of the Tonar Knosti Disco-Antistat Ultraclean: The cleaning time can be conveniently adjusted to the degree of soiling of the record, supported by a functional display. A clearly visible progress indicator informs about the cleaning status at a glance. So, instead of trying to fix it, I rushed into buying the Generation 2, thinking it would be better (and the crank is a good idea – I don’t know why this wasn’t included in the original). I’m not too sure about reusing the cleaning fluid – the filter was filthy after 15 records and I can see grot in the bottom of the bottle. I’m off to the chemist next.

The Knosti Disco Antistat two-bath record cleaning method

With a larger designed label sealing cup and hand crank, the Knosti Antistat Generation II PLUS is able to easily clean LPs, singles and 10” records. A drying stand with drip tray holding up to 15 records is included, and can be stored in the main unit when not in use for compact storage. This makes the Knosti Record Cleaning Machine ideal for cleaning multiple records in one sitting. Once you sort the correct preparation and cleaning liquid, the amount of information reaching the ear is impressive indeed. Giving the music you listen to an incredible maturity. If you do grab a sample, it will reward you with a quite stunning cleaning and sonic performance. I see the Disco-Antistat as the market leader in manual vinyl cleaning and, because of that, I’m giving it a rare full marks rating and a Golden Groovy award. Außerdem hätte ich gerne die Möglichkeit einen 2. Satz Dichtschalen zu kaufen. Bieten sie aber nicht an, nur in so einem Ersatzteile Set für 30€. Nein Danke.

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During cleaning, what I loved about the mechanical process was the inclusion of the brushes themselves. I hear that these are goat-hair brushes which offers enough stiffness to get deep into the grooves. Another issue though, is that the Generation 2 clamp fits the generation 1 tank. The only difference is that the Gen2 tank has special screws for flaps to keep the clamp and crank in place as you spin it. But this is not important as you can just hold down the clamp with your finger as you crank-spin it. A well visible progress indicator informs about the status of the cleaning at a glance. (1 LED = 10% of the set cleaning time).Unlike the other guys, the bottom of the basin is free of nooks n crannies to provide trouble-free cleanup. Easy to assemble and use, sturdy and strong in terms of build but with an affordable price to boot, the Disco Anstistat might not arrive with the perfect cleaning liquid but everything else about this vinyl cleaner is about as near to perfect as you’re going to get for the asking price.