New ultrasonic vinyl cleaner in the works: Humminguru

kvetcha said:
I mostly find it weird that he disses both the 40khz Humminguru and 120khz Degritter even though he’s chosen a frequency somewhere in between. Pick a lane, man.
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Acoustic Sounds had the Klaudio engineer at Axpona as well, and ironically he mentioned the frequencies that he researched and what his conclusions were.
 
Well back in this thread after we'd begun receiving the first shipments of HG's and reporting on our excitement over its performance, I speculated that it would become a gateway to the more expensive options. These videos might help that along. It's kind of like having a standard MoFi pressing of an album and wondering just how much better the One Step might be (plus a few thousand dollars lol).
 
Russ I said:
Here you go:

humminguru.com

A Quick Tip!

“Some of my 12” records are not turning in the HumminGuru cleaner. Why and what should I do?” Some HumminGuru users have been asking this question and we are here to explain and offer some tips that will easily solve the issues. Some LPs do not spin at all or rotate properly in the HumminGuru...
humminguru.com humminguru.com
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This is helpful. Thanks.

It's telling that, when I had the issue, I ran to this thread and consulting the humminguru website didn't even cross my mind. You all are the best.
 
Russ I said:
Well back in this thread after we'd begun receiving the first shipments of HG's and reporting on our excitement over its performance, I speculated that it would become a gateway to the more expensive options. These videos might help that along. It's kind of like having a standard MoFi pressing of an album and wondering just how much better the One Step might be (plus a few thousand dollars lol).
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Maybe? HG was nowhere close to novel in application or approach. What they nailed was the performance to price point. I'm not enjoying listening to my HG and prefer to spend money on records that I do enjoy listening to.
 
folsom_lives said:
N&G pop for all sorts of niche products. I also came across my own posts when searching google trying to troubleshoot something. Irony.
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Yes, and on the less good side of this. I'm starting to get just random people making accounts and messaging me to flatten their records because my name is popping for record flattening in Toronto on Google.
The irony is also not lost on me.
 
Mather said:
Yes, and on the less good side of this. I'm starting to get just random people making accounts and messaging me to flatten their records because my name is popping for record flattening in Toronto on Google.
The irony is also not lost on me.
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I dunno man, sounds like a business. Buy a couple more Furutechs, set them up in the fancy basement, charge a cover fee plus a per disc fee.
 
debianlinux said:
Maybe? HG was nowhere close to novel in application or approach. What they nailed was the performance to price point. I'm not enjoying listening to my HG and prefer to spend money on records that I do enjoy listening to.
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the HG makes records i already own (and future ones i buy) more enjoyable to listen to. they did nail the price point to performance though for sure. degritter and others seem like law of diminishing returns for me. i can't imagine that a degritter does almost a 10x better job (or makes my records sound 10x better) than the HG.
 
The only real problem I have with Humminguru ownership is that 80% of the time I can tell when one of my records has ‘only’ been vacuum cleaned, and then I am obligated to run it through the HG before proceeding.

Unfortunately, I did not think up a method of tracking what’s been through the ultrasonic and what hasn’t. 😅
 
kvetcha said:
The only real problem I have with Humminguru ownership is that 80% of the time I can tell when one of my records has ‘only’ been vacuum cleaned, and then I am obligated to run it through the HG before proceeding.

Unfortunately, I did not think up a method of tracking what’s been through the ultrasonic and what hasn’t. 😅
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Do what I do - start at the beginning and clean them all! 😀
 
kvetcha said:
The only real problem I have with Humminguru ownership is that 80% of the time I can tell when one of my records has ‘only’ been vacuum cleaned, and then I am obligated to run it through the HG before proceeding.

Unfortunately, I did not think up a method of tracking what’s been through the ultrasonic and what hasn’t. 😅
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I created a custom field on discogs to keep track
 
I might just take a Saturday and go through them alphabetically. I feel like most of them would be fine with a 2 minute clean.

It’d be even better if I got a rack and towel set up so I didn’t even have to wait for the drain-and-dry.
 
kvetcha said:
The only real problem I have with Humminguru ownership is that 80% of the time I can tell when one of my records has ‘only’ been vacuum cleaned, and then I am obligated to run it through the HG before proceeding.

Unfortunately, I did not think up a method of tracking what’s been through the ultrasonic and what hasn’t. 😅
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I had that problem, too. For all of my vacuum cleaned discs, I move them to Mofi inner sleeves which I deposit between the poly outer sleeve and the record jacket. For the ones that have been 'guru-ed, I flip the Mofi such that the white rice paper faces out instead of the record label. It's simple but works for right now.
 
budley007 said:
Acoustic Sounds had the Klaudio engineer at Axpona as well, and ironically he mentioned the frequencies that he researched and what his conclusions were.
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The Acoustic Sounds video provides an endorsement for ultrasonic cleaning that's similar to what N&G members say. But, the Klaudio is $6000! Happy to two-stage with vacuum and ultrasonic to cover all my use cases at a much lower price point.

For Acoustic Sounds, the Klaudio appears to be commercial operations equipment as much as it is saleable inventory!
 
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