Audio-Technica AT6012 Record Care Kit with Record Care Solution, Brush Pad, Storage Base, and Adhesive Tape

This thing works very well. I don't fill the reservoir but I keep distilled water in a small water mister and spray the pad before use. It cleans the record very well and cuts down on the static charge. Easier to use than my old dishwasher system.

I had been looking for a decent way to easily clean records for a while. The discwasher trough method didn't excite me at all, and was pricey. I actually found one of the old brushes with the oriented fibers in an antique shop, but it was part of a console stereo deal, so I could not buy it separately. Enter this unit. I did not have super high hopes for any modern day brush, but I just cleaned about 70 platters and I could not be happier. Yes, the instructions are horrible, but this is not that difficult. First, you squirt the solution into the two top holes of the brush. Not drops, but actually squirt some in so the pad can get saturated. 1. I found that the little holes in the top work so you can squirt the solution in from the top, but it takes a bit of time for the brush to become really wet enough to clean. The first few minutes will not have the entire brush damp. Wait...The dirt needs the dampness to help stick to the brush, not just push it around the platter, doing more damage. 2. There is a direction arrow on the side of the brush, that is the direction you want it to flow across the record. It is just about wide enough to cover all the grooves in one pass. If you have the platter on a moving turntable, make sure the brush is aimed correctly, into the vinyl as it comes to the brush. In other words, make sure the brush is advancing across the circumference of the record using the arrow as a directional guide. 3. You will find, upon inspection of the brush, that there is a lot of finer dust in the fibers after one or two platters than you might think. This really digs out the dirt. That little blue plastic strip on the holder? That is for scraping off the dust out of the brush. Use it often, not harshly, and you will see the dirt ball up and it then can be removed. This is mandatory, or you will just eventually redeposit the dirt on a different platter! 4. The "magic solution" is nothing more than distilled water and 70% alcohol. After using up the little bottle, buy a small alcohol bottle and a gallon of distilled water, both about $1 each. Enough mix for a lifetime. 5. I went one step further. After cleaning the platter, I found microfiber kitchen towels that were a bit tacky, but not too tacky so it drags on the platter. White ones found at Wa&^%%t. Not in the auto section, where the really tacky ones are kept, but in the kitchen towel area. After cleaning, I lightly rotated the towel around the disc to pull off the excess water. A little back and forth fanning of the platter afterwards holding the edges quickly dried it and I could put it back into the sleeve. One tip: Your old sleeves may contain more debris inside the envelope than you might think. I aggressively took my sleeves and opened them downward, and shook them so some of it at least, came out. Sometimes nothing, sometimes a cloud of dust came out. Sometimes they were so bad I replaced them with new sleeves bought on Amazon. And make sure you have a sleeve inside your album cover. Cardboard is not nice to delicate vinyl grooves. I also started putting plastic outer covers on my albums to keep the covers nice and further help dust from invading. It also makes the record package look very cool. The results to me were rather dramatic. Not only did the music seem brighter, unfortunately also did the permanent scratches on the record. Most of my records were bought used, so others put scuffs and scratches in them. Obviously the brush does not help this matter, but does make the needle ride in the bottom of the groove cleanly and make music, not be busy digging out dirt and try to make music at the same time. But scratches are scratches, so you will hear them cleanly also...Luckily for me there is something nostalgic about a few scratches in a record. I don't mind it at all, and there is just no duplicating the original analog sound that vinyl produces. Your favorite old artist, be it Nat King Cole or Jerry Lee Lewis, vinyl is the best. One of my favorites in my collection is an original Sun recording of Jerry Lee Lewis, doing all his hits. Scratchy, scuffed, and the sound was heavenly after cleaning with this brush! Overall, this is a great brush and I would buy it again. Once you get used to using it, it takes more time to handle the platters and move things around than it does to clean any one side. Beats the pants off the silly wood glue method.

This product works very well and I'm quite happy with how clean it gets my records. But the instructions could really use some help. The brush has an arrow on one side that shows the direction the brush is to be moved relative to the record (either by manually moving the brush counterclockwise around a motionless record with the arrow side of the brush on the outside of the record, or by holding the brush steady and letting the record rotate against it). Easy enough, and the picture on the box attempts to show that, with the arrow side of the brush on the outside of the record and a big arrow drawn counterclockwise on the record intending to show the direction of the brush relative to the record. But that arrow on the record can easily be misinterpreted to mean the direction of the record itself, especially since most people will be holding the brush motionless while the record rotates beneath it, and because the text says "Gently wipe the record so that the arrow on the side of the Sonic Broom is pointing in the direction that the record is turning". Clearly the word "opposite" should precede the word "direction". The picture is for the first method (manually moving the brush on a motionless record) while the text is for the second method (holding the brush steady on a rotating record). There should be a separate picture and text for each method. Then there's the deficient method of getting the cleaning solution to the cleaning pad by dripping/squirting a "unit" of solution (4 ml) into two tiny holes in the handle and waiting for the solution to soak through. This wastes a lot of fluid (there are only 60 ml in the entire bottle), it's a pain to do, and having to wait is a real negative. It's a lot easier to simply put 6 or 7 drops of fluid along the brush pad itself near the leading edge (say on the 4th or 5th row of fibers back) and use the butt of the bottle to spread the drops evenly across the brush surface. Last but not least, the handle is too small and flat and it's easy to lose one's grip on it. A bit of experience brings the necessary delicacy of touch, but a sufficiently large or ergonomically shaped handle would make that unnecessary. I like to place the record on its inner sleeve (I use Mobile Fidelity Original Master Sleeves, which are one of the inner sleeves recommended by the Library of Congress) which is in turn sitting on the record cover and move the brush manually rather than have to worry about stretching the drive belt by using it on a rotating turntable. I clean the record in quarters, holding it down with my fingertips on the label, rotating the record by rotating the cover 90 degrees after cleaning each quarter. Once I've gone all the way around the record once or twice, I dry it by going around it again with the trailing portion of the brush. I clean the brush itself by wiping it in the opposite direction of the arrow against a cotton cloth. If I'm wearing a cotton t-shirt or jeans that works too :) I think that gentle pressure works best (otherwise I presume you'd be grinding the dirt into the record), the solution does most of the work, and there should be enough solution on the brush that when the brush is picked up from the record surface it leaves behind a wet streak (which is taken care of in the drying phase). One nice design feature of the brush is that the pad extends all the way up to cover both the leading and trailing edges of the handle so that the record is protected even if the brush is inadvertently tilted too far.

It's a great product. It looks just like the picture and works like a dream! Leaves all my records spotless and shiny, and maybe I'm just imagining it but it seems as if they play better too! Highly recommend as a cleaning tool.

Ho comprato questo sistema di pulizia dei dischi in vinile (LP e 7") della Audio Technica, perchè nei vari siti internet di audiofili questo prodotto era segnato come tra i più affidabili, ma in Italia purtroppo non era importato da nessuno. Ma noi per fortuna abbiamo Amazon, che ha tutto. Appena l'ho visto nelle sue pagine mi sono tolto la curiosità e l'ho comprato, anche per il prezzo non elevatissimo del prodotto. Audio Technica è una grande casa di apparecchiature Hi-Fi, che fa molto per gli audiofili di tutto il mondo, soprattutto per quelli appassionati di vinile, con giradischi e puntine di grande qualità, non poteva tradirmi con questo suo AT6012 per pulire i vinili e infatti non l'ha fatto, sono rimasto soddisfattissimo dei risultati e vi spiego il come e perchè. Arriva a casa nella sua confezione di plastica che contiene una boccetta di plastica di liquido antistatico da 60 ml, una spazzola di plastica bianca con velluto blu scuro bombato, con scanalature che entrano nei solchi del vinile pulendoli, nella parte alta ci sono due buchini dove mettere due-tre gocce di liquido che scende nella spazzola da passare sul vinile. La spazzola ha anche la sua base, anch'essa bianca, dove riporla finito l'uso, ma anche per pulirla dalla polvere, ha una striscetta pulente su un lato, strusciando la spazzola sopra ritorna pulita per un altro uso. Facile da usare a secco, basta posare l'LP nel piatto e farlo girare, poggiare la spazzola bombata con la freccia disegnata verso il bordo esterno del disco e poggiarla sul disco dal lato inclinato che raccoglie la polvere e poi oscillandola dalla parte opposta finisce di raccogliere tutta la polvere lasciando il disco pulitissimo, pronto per essere ascoltato. Se invece il disco è molto sporco e pieno di elettricità statica, invece di usare i buchini in alto della spazzola, consiglio di passare una striscia di liquido direttamente nella spazzola lungo il lato senza freccia (non lascia aloni asciugandosi), poggiarlo sul disco per una decina di giri e poi oscillare la spazzola dal lato asciutto e lucidare il disco, subito pronto per l'ascolto. Incredibile Audio Technica AT6012! Bastano questi pochi passaggi e non si ascolteranno più nè scrosci, nè ticchettii di elettricità statica, ma solo purissima musica del vinile! Da usare anche su i vinili nuovi, che ho notato sono strapieni di elettricità statica. Sono favorevole ai lavaggi dei vinili nelle vaschette apposite, nella lucidatura con spray appositi, ma quando si mette il disco nel piatto prima di ascoltarlo una passata di questa spazzola con liquido è l'ultimo tocco finale per la migliore purezza del suono! Consigliata agli amanti del vinile! Grazie ad Amazon per la spedizione entro i tempi stabiliti e l'imballaggio perfetto. Cinque Stelle!!!

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