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Audio Discussion => Equipment Reviews => Topic started by: OldiesButGoodies on April 30, 2016, 11:18:07 AM
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Hi everyone...
Will start sharing pdfs of interesting/useful articles in this fashion for your reading entertainment.
This is a good one on record cleaners. Interesting that the VPI line is not mentioned. Good description of the Zerostat, and a positive review of the Spin Clean
https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B-ItA3rHybSwQURYWGZjcGdvbEE (https://drive.google.com/open?id=0B-ItA3rHybSwQURYWGZjcGdvbEE)
Regards,
Pepe
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Did the VPI line exist in 1976?
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Did the VPI line exist in 1976?
You are correct, they did not exist. From the VPI history page:
Our first major product, which is still in production in an improved form, was our HW-16 record cleaning machine introduced in 1981. Harry Weisfeld, then a dedicated audiophile, wanted his records to be as clean as possible (including the dirty ones whose sonic potential lay beneath a layer of contaminants). However, the only available record cleaning machine at that time was the Keith Monks Record Cleaner. How could a newly married husband justify this expense to his wife! (“Too bad some of those conversations were not recorded for posterity”, says one reviewer”; no doubt they would have had a familiar ring to many audiophiles and their designated others). Without much choice, Harry decided to make a record cleaning machine for his own use. This became the original HW-16, which sold for less than 1/5 the price of the Keith Monks Cleaning Machine. The 16 was noisy, but so was our corn popper.
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lol I had one of those Rec o Vac machines and used it for a long time.... was kinda cool... didn't do much for cleaning but static really dissipated. And of course had a Disc Washer I and II. And platter "bugs" of various kinds ...