Professional LP Record Cleaner Solution : Vinyl Record Cleaning Kit (250ml), Stylus Brush, Drying Stand, plus Two Microfibre Cloths. Enjoy Click Free, Crystal Clear Sound - a Record Lover’s Gift!

I‘be been a record collector for decades and have tried more cleaning solutions than I can remember. For really dirty records, those from charity shops for example, I use an electronic cleaning machine. However, it’s a pain to set up and I wanted to see if any solution could provide me with decent results. I went for vinyl clear based upon reviews and value offered.Item arrived and looked exactly as advertised. Simple and quick instructions are provided too, which is good for those of who hate reading instructions because we know best.I decided to give the Vinyl Clear a chance to give a good first impression. Selecting a recent charity shop find, a first pressing of Led Zeppelin Physical Graffiti. The cover to the record is in poor condition, but the vinyl appeared to be a diamond in the rough. Lots of surface gunk, dust and 45 year old finger prints. I applied 3 sprays of Vinyl Solution as instructed, let it sit for longer than the 5-10 seconds due to the level of soiling. Still following the instructions, I wiped the record with the included micro fibre cloth.This first pass shifted around 80% of visible contamination, 100% of greasy finger prints and around 35% of heavy contamination. I opted to do a second pass, concentrating on the heavily soiling. Still using 3 sprays, but letting it dwell for around 60 seconds before wiping away the residue. This time, the solution had managed to remove some of the ingrained dirt completely but some persistent muck remained. However, my cleaning machine did not manage to remove those marks completely.Once dried, using the provided stand, I placed the record on to my turntable. Usually, Inise a record brush to remove surface dust and reduce static, but wanted to hear the results of the cleaning without additional methods. I was pleasantly surprised to hear only 2 clicks as the stylus started its journey across the record. One those clocks being the stylus landing on the record. As the record played, I was further impressed at the lack of record noise. There was some pops and crackles, but that’s what you get with records. Even more so ones that have been badly treated like this copy of Physical Graffiti. After the first track, I used the cleaning brush to see if that had an effect on static noise. Playing the track again, the level of static was around the same which suggests the Vinyl Solution has some a very good clean indeed.For a very small outlay, Vinyl Solution returned some very impressive and consistent results with all of the records I have cleaned with it. It is fantastic at cleaning and maintaining records, reducing static and a little goes a long way, especially if you follow the instructions.Pros: Does exactly as advertised, cleans very dirty records and reduces static significantly.Cons: The supplied record stand is a bit flimsy, but is okay for what it does. No instructions provided for using the stylus cleaning liquid supplied in the kit.Highly recommended.

Firstly the Seller is fantastic, I had an issue which I investigated on their website, I then left a message to describe my issue an vinyl clear went above and beyond to resolve.Now back to the product. Some reviews state it clogs the stylus. I found this happened to some of my records, however this is due to the ingrained dirt on a few of them coming lose. After a play I cleaned again and problem was solved. The stylus cleaner comes in really handy at this point too.The cloths are standard microfibre cloths, and the stand for drying the disc works perfectly for me.On all of the records I have cleaned so far, the sound quality has improved. Reviving my vinyl collection is my lockdown project at the moment and doing this is therapeutic, but best of all you can see the visible results and tangibly hear the positive sonic difference, extremely satisfying.I had a copy of Dark side of the moon which was beyond salvation. Unfortunately as good as this is it won't fix deep scratches so I purchased a replacement a week ago, brand new. Side 2 sounded awful, very muddy. I was disgusted that an New album could sound so bad. After reading the Vinyl clear website I decided to give it a clean, as even new records apparently have some residue left by the manufacturing process. Something I found hard to believe, however after a clean, a play and another clean the album plays much better than before. The poor sound quality has almost disappeared. The album is not the best mastered copy however and although it has improved, sorting out a badly mastered album is beyond even Vinyl clear.If you don't expect miracles with this you will not be disappointed. It will clean your records extremely well.I have given a 4star for ease of use because of the issue I had, but like I said at the beginning this was sorted and the customer service was superb.

I must admit, the first time I used this cleaner I thought it was pretty rubbish. It got most of the dirty marks off but as for getting the dust out of the grooves, it was pretty useless.So then I tried it again. I thought I would try cleaning the same record twice, there were noticeable improvements, less crackles when playing back.I have found out that you really need to clean a record at least three times to get it to remove most of the dust from the grooves if it is very dusty.Also you need to spray a lot more on the record than it states to do any good. So it can end up costing quite a bit if you have quite a few dirty records to clean, because you will soon run out of the spray.I have found that it is best to use the cloths just until the spray runs out, because they do get dirty. I then order another lot with new cloths again, instead of washing the cloths, because you could do more harm than good if something is in the cloths from the washing process.Word of warning, make sure to wipe off any excess of the spray that goes on the label straight away, otherwise you may find it ruins it.The stand supplied is not really very good, but once you figure out which way to use it, it does its job.I can’t comment on the small bottle of stylus cleaner because I haven’t really used it enough to see if it actually works, but the brush won’t be hard enough to get any stubborn dirt off anyway.