Needles & Grooves

I usually listen to them first to see whether they need to be cleaned at all. I found quite many albums sound really good without being cleaned. For the ones that don't, I put them on a list and clean them the next session.

I fell into the same mind-trap for a long time. If you only have so much time, sometimes you have to go with the imperfect solution. Having pristine records/stylus isn’t super useful if it doesn’t get used. Unless they’re particularly heinous and massively impacts playback, later is a thing that exists.

humminguru solves this problem

@debianlinux i dont have money for one right now... i have other things I'm focusing on first.. but it would help... i just have a lot of brand new LPs (the last 2 months of VMP and my Needles & Grooves record club albums are major examples) but now i got to see if i have enough of the distilled water and put them on a to listen to list which overwhelms mee

I go through this too. I am buying way less nowadays, and really only want to batch-clean if I have 10 or more. So sometimes three or four records sit for a couple months unopened.