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As I could not afford that product, I selected the Stanton Record Cleaner Kit. I purchased this to clean up my vinyl, as I was also purchasing the AT-PL120 turntable. The soft brush is excellent at whisking away dust and debris from the vinyl grooves. My LPs have been spun innumerable times, and most date from the 60's-80's. I originally wanted an expensive machine that would remove all the debris from my records, which hissed and popped quite vigorously. The applicator fluid is quite helpful, as well. The kit has vastly improved the sound of my records, and I am pleased with the results.
It cleans records as advertised and does a fair job. The brush works well dry at removing dust and other particles. The fluid is also effective. However, after repeated use I've noticed that the fibers on the area of the brush where the fluid was applied have become matted down and thus are less effective at reaching into the groves.
The felt should have been better quality. Other than that I am happy with the purchase.
This brush really seems to get into the grooves with its tiny fibers. The cleaning solution seems to clean without any residue. I used to use the Diskwasher system years ago and the new version shouldn't even be called the same thing. I am glad that I found and bought this one.
You're supposed to sweep the record with the dry pad, apply 3-4 drops of the cleaning fluid to the edge of the pad, re-sweep & then do a final sweep with a dry portion of the pad. I bought this item because I'm embarking on that rite of passage into middle age: transferring my LPs to digital files. I've encountered at least 3 problems with this product:1) poorly written/non-updated instructions - you're supposed to sweep the record "in the direction of the arrows on the handle", well, there are no arrows on the handle, I can only hope that the fibers of the pad are not directional2) inadequate wicking of the cleaning fluid - the 3-4 drops of fluid don't spread out very well &, as a result, there's a tendency to clean only narrow tracks of the record3) lack of a cleaning tool (or at least some instructions) for the pad itself - where does all that dirt you've cleaned off of the record go. So I bought a USB-enabled turntable & the record cleaner kit. As is clearly shown in the picture, the kit consists of a pad, pad tray & a 2 oz bottle of cleaning solution. Onto the pad, where it stays until perhaps it's deposited onto the next record.I can remember (back in the day) buying record cleaning kits that had none of these deficiencies. Apparently the folks that made those products have gone the way of the buggy whip manufacturers.
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