Got an LP cleaner you want to make money on?


The subject has come up about cleaning vinyl LPs and how expensive some of the effective LP cleaners are out there. Usually out of the monetary reach of the average vinyl player who still would like to listen to clean, quiet LPs on their turntables.

I was wondering, since many of the members here may own such equipment, whether there might be a chance to connect through Audiogon some of the owners of these cleaners who may be willing to offer their use, for a price of course, with the vinyl lovers in their particular area.

At least they could recoup some of the cost and at the same time help out others of like interests, namely enjoying listening to LPs with the least amount of pops and snaps..

What do you think? Would you owners of such equipment be interested such a service?
altaylorwood
I'm got an older rotel TT with Van den hul MM1 that I broke back out and listened to the other day at Audio Connection. They set it up properly and it sounded ok. Then I heard a record on the Clearaudio Concept i think it was and WOW...What a difference. I now am thinking of maybe selling off my table and getting a Rega 6 and Bellari phono stage, but no matter what I need a decent record cleaner.

I find your thread interesting. In order to keep your collection clean and static free, how often to you have to clean them on average? Is it worth spending the money to get a good cleaner instead of paying someone whenever you want them cleaned? What are some of the better cleaners out there that aren't over 300 or so? I can't even find a VPI or Nitty Gritty for sale used.

Your question is very interesting to me as I've been thinking about this for a few days now. How much would it cost to clean a record? Do you all use new jackets when you clean them? Hope I didn't hijack your thread, but I think some of my questions piggy back it. Thanks.
They would have to be local. Then, How much would one charge to make it worth the bother? And how little would it have to be to get folks interested.
Thenthe labor? Who does the work?
So in geberal the charge would be somewhere between $0.50 to $2,00 per record.
Considering who would allow some stranger with no experience to use your cleaning machine? I suppose the owner of the machine would be doing the work. that makes it closer to the $2 a record cost. which FEW record owners would ever consider paying.
Consider the waste of time of setting up an appointment, then jabberingabout chleaning, answeringquestions, and then finallyactually cleaning the LPs. With the typical percentage of folks who will end up 'not happy' due to still noise on LPs etc.. The most one could charge and actually get customers is a buck a pop.
And what sort of guarantee? clean but no guarantee.
Clean and no noise (impossible to promise)

So reading my own writing, NO ONE would bother with trying to do this. Too much work for no gain.
The only saving part would be for folks who want to meet other audio types, and love to talk. They might find the excuse of cleaning records worth the bother involved, so they could meet other audiophiles.

The actual common sense solution would be to BUY a used record cleaning machine, clean all your records, Then sell it.
To add to Elizabeth's posts, would the customer ask to listen to the difference on the owner's system (looking for improvement)? It could also be a half-day affair, talking-cleaning and such. What is someone's time worth?