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One great example is RCA LSO 6006, which is the 1959 Harry Bellafonte at Carnegie Hall. I picked it up at Half Price Books Sunday night for $3.00. Not music I especially care for, but one of the great recordings ever with the exception of the occasional sibilance on Bellefonte's voice. Few recordings are betters at transporting you back to that space, Carnegie Hall.

I bought this for the excellent record jacket. Record itself looked pretty good with smudges, fingerprints, light scuffing etc.., but nothing major and it was still in the original 59 sleeve.

Just went down and tried it using only a diskwasher to clean it, and yes it was plenty noisy, but no major clicks, pops or skipping .... lots of little clicks though. I did one thorough cleaning of side one with the Okki Nokki, figuring that probably got played the most, and got rid of 85-90% of the noise. Went back and cleaned it a 2nd time and it's virtually all gone. Background is black and the ambient soundstage of Carnegie comes clearly through.

[Alvin]

Stopped into Rice Village Half Priced Books and did a Lookey Loo in the vinyl section, and had to laugh as they had several cheapo turntables that were flower power embossed and junk BUT had USB outputs...

Was a "Recorded in MONO" Disc 1 and "Recorded in Stereo" Disc 2 offering of an early Beach Boys or Beatles LP set which I passed on...about as silly as a $500 disc cleaner for a $10 LP IMO

Previous post of "Snap/Crackle/Pops" of "Rice Crispies" like vinyl reminded me of '80's paper thin pressings that often contained impurities such as paper which could be seen with the naked eye pressed into the grooves!

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Originally Posted by Alvin

Stopped into Rice Village Half Priced Books and did a Lookey Loo in the vinyl section, and had to laugh as they had several cheapo turntables that were flower power embossed and junk BUT had USB outputs...

Was a "Recorded in MONO" Disc 1 and "Recorded in Stereo" Disc 2 offering of an early Beach Boys or Beatles LP set which I passed on...about as silly as a $500 disc cleaner for a $10 LP IMO

Previous post of "Snap/Crackle/Pops" of "Rice Crispies" like vinyl reminded me of '80's paper thin pressings that often contained impurities such as paper which could be seen with the naked eye pressed into the grooves!

"several cheapo turntables that were flower power embossed"

http://www.musicdirect.com/p-7623-pr...ce=igodigital&

or

http://www.musicdirect.com/p-220540-...turntable.aspx

You can do really cheap turntables such as the above ... especially the above. Set up properly, they're are quite musical.

BUT if you're going to actually play records, and continue to buy them, there's no getting around the record cleaner.