Cleaning vinyls???
 

Does anybody around here know a cheap or simple but effective way to clean vinyl's??

Define clean!

If it's taking the dust out of it, you can take a very soft tissue and pass it over the disk following the circles but very carefully. There used to be some kind of wipers back in the day when vynils were everywhere.I loved cleaning vynils, being so careful while circling the disk :D

Anyway, is that what you need? :?

If they have a bunch of fingerprints on them, that is grease. We used to wash vinyl records with soap and water - gently - and they dry them concentrically with soft cotton cloths. If you use tissues or paper towels they will scratch as there is a high percentage of unrefined fiber them.

God - I haven't done that since about 1982 when I got my first CD player and happily dumped all my vinyl. I don't miss it a bit either :D

Kathleen

but what about the analogue warmth? :mad: :evil: :mad: :D

Jim - If you grew up with vinyl as I did, you would have been happy to switch formats.

I remember college parties when some drunk s c r a t c h e d the needle across my precious new record.
I remember being too drunk to bother getting up to turn the damn things over and play the other side.
And then - just like tape - every time you played a record, you knew you were ruining the media, just a little bit more. I had favorite records that I bought 4 or more times by the time CDs came out.
If you had little kids you had to keep telling them not to bump or jump in the living room because the needle would jump and cause a pop.

However, with that said, analog warmth is a very real fact. I have gotten around it by extensively testing pre-amps and power amps and choosing "warm sounding amps" and by buying very high end CD players. The one I am using now has a tube based DAC and is very sweet. Unfortunately the company that produces it is also out of business :(

Kathleen

Oh, I was one of the little kids getting that. it annoyed me to no end. Children like to fool around when there's music playing and vinyls completely ruined that.

Agreed, but why dump them all? What about their value and preciousness?

I would like to know what company that is?

Um - at the time it was the 80's and there was absolutely no retail value in old, scratched vinyl records. I think I got offered 10 cents apiece at a used records store. My solution was to go out and slowly purchase on CD what I had on vinyl. And then, of course, came the remastered discs which meant buying them again :roll: I keep the music industry in business. :D

In my opinion the finest sounding CD player made was by Cal Audio. They got bought out several years ago by a home theater company and then liquidated completely. You can't get parts for them easily either. Here is a link to one like mine that is on sale at audiogon

http://cls.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/cls....onv&1104709960

Kathleen

I just mess around with the eq on the stereo to warm the CD's sound up but when i've got my own place I'll definetely be getting into some high end audio gear. If you know what you're listening for it makes a HUGE difference.

You should see how obsessed and pedantic some people are about analogue gear with regards to live sound and recording.

Yeah, I know - I'm almost one of them :D I fall just on the short side of being a nut about my sound equipment.

Kathleen