If you have a collection of old or new vinyl records, you will understand the importance of keeping them clean and dust-free. Even with a budget record deck fitted with a mid-range stylus, playback quality can be greatly improved by cleaning your vinyl. No matter how carefully you put a record away, over time dust somehow finds its way into the inner sleeve. Each time the record is played, dust will damage the grooves if not removed. The question is how do you clean vinyl records safely without damaging the record surface? The answer is with an ultrasonic record cleaner.

Liquid solutions leave a deposit in the grooves. A weak soap and water solution leaves a slight covering when it dries.  A carbon fiber brush can be used before & after playing. Or a specialist cleaning cloth. But either of these record cleaning methods involves touching the record surface. A non-contact method of dust removal is by a vacuum cleaner, but that won’t clean to the very base of the record groove.

As any self-respecting audiophile knows, the less physical contact anything has with the face of the disc, the better but most cleaning methods require some kind of rubbing or brushing. In an ideal world, the only item to ever touch the surface of a record should be a stylus.

The new method is the use of an ultrasonic record cleaner. This ticks all the boxes with regards to non-contact with the surface of the record and they can be cleaned very thoroughly without chemicals. Microscopic dust particles are cleaned from the very bottom of the record groove.