i would say there is no comparison of a disco to a proper duel direction vacuum machine imo. (using a good fluid)
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i would say there is no comparison of a disco to a proper duel direction vacuum machine imo. (using a good fluid)
I’m sure you’re right, but for me it was the difference between around £50 and £400 upwards!
No problem, each to his or her own and experience in using them. I stand by my view, based on my experience and comparing the 'Antistat' with an RCM.
When I used one, all it did was move the removed dirt from one area of the record to another, simply because it's got nowhere else to go but trap itself inside the grooves at the point where the fluid rests, and on playback the noise is transferred there accordingly (usually at the edges where records have been left to 'drip dry' on the supplied rack).
And the longer the debris lies there, it solidifies and then becomes even more of a problem...
Whilst these devices can be effective to a degree (depending on the nature of how dirty records are to start with), you simply can't escape from the fact that a vacuum is needed to suck the dirt out of the grooves once records have been cleaned, and which is the ONLY way to achieve truly clean records.
Therefore, if you've spent at least a grand on a decent T/T and have at least a couple of hundred records (hopefully more), then you owe it to yourself to buy an RCM, and as Grant says it doesn't need to be new, there are some great second-hand buys around at a fraction of the price!:cool:
Marco.
Well I will buy an RCM soon as I have decided I definitely keeping the vinyl. So I'm having a clear out of the ones I don't want so I can focus more on ones to buy that I will play. I'm sure the disco just moves it around as stated here.