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Have lived with the HG for a while now. Here's my take: 1) It can't fix faulty pressings where there's a problem with the lacquer or something from the mastering. (Just washed classical record which had quite bad hiss and the HG can't fix that as it obviously is not dirt but something from...

Listened through the Fleet Foxes discog in reverse order today, on my drive to the mountains. And I kid you not: White Winter Hymnal came on just as I reached the snow-filled splendor surrounding our cabin...

New restrictions in Norway. Will probably have to teach digital in January (yuck!). But, I have a new RCM and a lot of records to spin...

Over on a Norwegian Hifi-forum, a guy did a comparison of an Audio Desk ultrasound RCM and the HumminGuru. He bought them at the same time it seems, so he had not used the Audio Desk previously. His conclusion: They both do an excellent cleaning job, he used the Audio desk cleaning...

This one is great! But very limited, only 120 copies from Sugarbush Records.

So, I don't have time to post all the time here, but thought I might do a Friday playlist kind of thing. Five records each Friday night! This week's choice selection: Caddy - Ten Times Four (Sugarbush, 2018) Cotton Mather - Kontiki (Sugarbush, 2020 reissue) Popsicle - Popsicle (Woah Dad...

Vacuum RCM's are louder as far as I have experienced, but in shorter time spans. What is great with the HG is its size makes it easy to place in other rooms and leave it with the door closed. Then you don't hear much is my experience.

Another listen tonight to Kevin Morby's Oh My God. I know some people don't like it but for me it's one of the best from recent years!

So, listening to another trouble record now and distilled/ilfotol has made things quite significantly better. Less crackles and small pops and cleaner sound all over, I think. More checking to come. I also have some new records coming in to clean, so some real A/B testing can be done. I for...

And, wow! Phoebe Bridgers Punisher does sound much better after the distilled/ilfotol treatment!

Yes, pretty much the same thing, I think.

Some Ilfotol added to distilled water made a marked difference, I think. A couple of trouble records had less surface noise than before. Will do some more critical listening when I have the house for myself.

I also don't get that review. I find that there was some dust on the record after drying, but then my house is also very dusty because of refurbishment work at the moment. I also found some sonic improvements on several records. Okay, so very bad pressings with lots of surface noise did not get...

So, today I will pick up som Ilfotol. Not sure whether I will pre-heat the water, though, especially if my wife is around. She's already finding all this cleaning stuff to be VERY strange... Anyway: will first do distilled water, with some drops of ilfotol. Excited to test it!

Cheers, thanks. I really need to be fed these practical things with a tea spoon as we say in Norway. Ilfotol ordered and will pick up tomorrow. Will add a couple of drops and let's see what difference that makes! A couple of "trouble" records to be washed again!

We don't have one! ...

So some of you heat the water to 40 degrees? How do you manage that? Heat it in a water boiler and stop before it boils or what`? Yes, stupid question, but I'm a political theorist...

Still unhappy with the decision not to issue the Capitol live on vinyl. Could they not at least have pressed one just for ME?!?! (Jokes aside: I do understand that it may too big a project, but seriously who wouldn't want a 12LP live box set from Wilco?)

I have had mine for a couple of days now. I have only used distilled water and most of my records were already cleaned with the Okki Nokki. I tried it on a couple of noisy records (Phoebe Bridgers Punisher and Kevin Morby Oh My God) and it really didn't do any wonders as far as I'm concerned...