Audio Desk Vinyl Cleaning System

Jtimothya, only the single cleaning fluid they provide can be used and reused. This fluid is drained off and goes into a holding tank in the bottom of the machine. It is evaporated off the record with fans, not vacuumed. Nevertheless you do not hear residue after cleaning.

One of the disturbing findings I had was that using it after I had cleaned records with the Walker Prelude and vacuumed it with the Delrin tubed VPI record cleaner. It was improved greatly. Also doing the reverse, greatly improved the sound??? I am not about to clean all of my records with two different machines.

The Audio Desk Vinyl Cleaner was vastly more convenient. If you have it in another room, you can listen to music a go to it to remove a cleaned record after about five minutes.

Can someone tell me where you purchased your Audio Desk Cleaner?

The Cable Company.

One of the disturbing findings I had was that using it after I had cleaned records with the Walker Prelude and vacuumed it with the Delrin tubed VPI record cleaner. It was improved greatly. Also doing the reverse, greatly improved the sound???

Thanks, Tbg. If I'm understanding what you describe (which maybe I'm not) a second cleaning gave an improvement, and in so doing neither technology w/ attendant fluids distinguished itself?

That suggests a third type of test. Clean side A once with VPI followed by Audio Desk (the order doesn't matter), then clean side B twice with either one.

Maybe your post already answers this :) - have you found the greatest benefit of the Audio Desk to be how clean it gets a record versus some other method, or its convenience?
 

Jtimothya, you are understanding me right. There are limits to how much I will put up with. The Audio Desk is very convenient. I would still have one, were they dependable. Mine stopped rotating records after doing about 50 records. It does a good job also. But it is just different than what Walker Prelude and my VPI does.