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

Simply awesome! Such a simple, but effective product. Very easy to use. Does a great job at cleaning most dirt and residue out of the vinyl grooves and getting rid of a lot of static surface noise. An essential tool for any record collector looking to preserve the appearance and quality of their collection. For the price and functionality, 10/10 would recommend for anyone on the fence. Ultrasonic record cleaners are obviously superior to this, but those easily run several hundreds of dollars and up. For the price point and effectiveness, this will be good for 99% of record collectors cleaning needs.

I purchased this through Amazon-I'm in the midst of a Home Theater/Audiophile revival, and in so doing I pulled out my last two remaining milk cartons of old vinyl- that have survived four states of moving, three non-air conditioned garages, two wives (!), and one hell of a set of memories to relive by cleaning them up and ripping them to 24/96 hi res files and DVD Audio for posterity and posterior. I've pulled out my old Denon DP-45f, bought a new DL-110 MC cartridge (review on that coming up-awesome!) and started to wipe 40 years of grime, fingerprints, hair gel, and shame off some old classics.This thing WORKS! As a test of both the cartridge and the cleaner I brushed off an orignal LP of Linda Ronstadt's Hasten Down the Wind, a release that I abused the vinyl and the cover of on many occasions as a young lad...Side Two has great accapella vocals, tight drums, and a lot of dynamic moments that will expose dirt in the vinyl. First pass of the side was pretty good actually-I was expecting a lot more wear and tear on a disc that didn't spend much time in it's sleeve.I followed the easy one page instructions on the Spin Clean (and I did go to YouTube and see an excellent and wonderfully geeky home demo there the day before it arrived). Using distilled water and three cap-fulls of the cleaner on the brushes per the instruction I slid the record in the gap, three turns back, three turns forth, and BAM. I set it on a micofiber cloth and used the included surgical cloth to wipe it dry in a swirl motion, flipping it over and repeating the same on the other side. Deceptively simple and ingenius.Not changing a thing on the A/V system I reloaded the disc and played Side Two again. The difference was immediately noticable. Linda's voice was clearer, sibilances were better and the tracks seemed more open and spacious. The results were also measurable-I forgot to mention I put an SPL meter 2' away from the speaker and measured the groove noise between tracks before and after as well...the noise was as much as 5db less, which is a hell of a lot! I'm not saying that this will take 5db of noise off your records, I'm saying it did on THIS record that looked OK before I ran it through the Spin Clean. It obviously cleaned gunk that the eye couldn't see, and it must have helped lower any static electricity buildup as well. I cleaned about 25 LP's with it and by then the water was noticably darker-they say you can get 50 cleanings per dose but I'm guessing they aren't talking about records like mine that looked like they were found by Mike and Frank on American Pickers.It's $80...but it works...but it's $80... For me it was totally worth it to find out my old OOP vinyl survived my decades of abuse and neglect to them better than I did. The Spin Clean is not the kind of thing you can leave on display in your Home Thater/Music Room if you have any decorating taste...like my wife. And it's not cost/effort effective to use it to clean one or two records at a time, then throwing the water/solution out, though honestly even at $20 a bottle if you did that it would aveage 25 cents a record. But playing vinyl is like a dedicated sport you have to suit up for. You're not going to strap the pads on and go play for 5 minutes, so I just factor it into the ritual that makes the whole vinyl experience the cool thing it is for me again. Highly recommended.

It irritates me that I spent $80 on a plastic tub full of mild dishwater. But it depends on how you look at it. If you compare the Spin Clean to record cleaning machines, it is by far the cheapest solution. If you think of the Spin Clean as a record cleaning kit, it’s very expensive. The Spin Clean bridges the gap between these categories. It’s a cleaning machine that makes you do all the work. The good news is that it gives excellent results.The Spin Clean is really just a tub of solution into which a record sits in edgewise supported by a roller at either end. In the middle are two brushes that the record’s playing surfaces are sandwiched between. Soaked in the solution, the brushes clean the record surface as you turn the record by hand. Spin Clean’s instructions say to turn the record three revolutions in each direction. Then you dry the record by hand using the supplied cloths. The Spin Clean can clean 7” 10” and 12” records.If you are cleaning more than a few records at once, this can turn into real work. You do get a little break because both sides of the record are being cleaned at once.The dishwater I made fun of is actually Spin Clean’s fluid that you mix with distilled water. Spin Clean says it encapsulates dirt and it does. One of the problems with any record brush system is ending up with a line of dirt where the brush has lined up the dirt but not carried it off the record. You never see deposited debris left by the Spin Clean. Clean enough records and you’ll find the debris settled in the fluid.I rebuilt an antique 45 RPM record changer and needed some records to play on it. That means buying used records, and used records need to be washed. It’s amazing how much quieter clean records sound. Spin Clean says that pops and skips can not be fixed with a cleaning, but I disagree. If a record has a skip or a repeating pop because of a deep scratch, you’re out of luck. But most of the pops and skips I’ve come across on my used 45s are due to little bits of gunk stuck to the surface of the record.If you’ve got a skip, don’t give up. Have a look with a magnifying glass to see if it is something fixable. My Spin Clean has fixed quite a few skips. One especially stubborn skip took repeated cleanings, but finally came out without so much as a tick.The Spin Clean does a great job. Think of it as a cheap record cleaning machine. 5 stars.