We have a series of turntables set up in the cleaning room that play through every record we’ve cleaned before it goes into the Hot Stamper shootout rotation.
We recommend that you play your records at least once and as many as three times through completely before listening to them, whether you are listening for pleasure or testing for sound quality.
Playing previously cleaned records plows loosened grunge out of the grooves and helps the cartridge “seat” itself in the dead center of the groove at the same time.
Two or three plays usually gets the job done, resulting in a clearly audible improvement of surfaces and sonics.
If you care to, you can clean them the way we do at 45 RPM in order to speed up the process.
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Further Reading
- Unsolicited audio advice
- Revolutions in audio, anyone?
- Our playback system (and why you shouldn’t care)
