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Is it true records are sealed to look better....

...and need a thorough proper cleaning even when new to sound best?

A vendor of ultrasonic record cleaning machines asserted this to me recently.  He also described a 45 minute process using an ultrasonic record cleaner to address it. Yikes! I clean my records manually now in just a few minutes and sounds clean when done. I thought an automatic record cleaner would save time and make things easier but not according to this particular expert.

mapman
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folkfreak
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So I just opened a brand new Yarlung LP - - volume 2 of the Yuko Mabuchi - an audiophile pressing in a lovely non static inner liner. 

The disc was covered in a fine patina of card or paper scraps, probably from the jacket or something -- so whether or not mold release agent exists or not the assumption that new records are in any way clean is patently false.

On other threads there are postings of the far from asceptic interiors of pressing plants. Why wouldn't you clean a disc before playing? 
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Do people wash new clothes before wearing for the first time?

reubent
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@twoleftears - I always wash new clothes before wearing.
elizabeth
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Washing new clothes before wearing is one of those things mostly done by folks who are allergic to the chemicals on new clothing, and by folks who are rather like "Monk" (from the TV series) and folks who have someone else to wash them for them!           
To translate this into vinyl ... If your butler has to do it? Why not?(PS this was to be a funny,)
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