New ultrasonic vinyl cleaner in the works: Humminguru

So I decided to try and clean a record in the living room. While this thing is not super loud, I will have to do that in another room. My SO was complaining about the noise, and you def can’t listen to a record at the same time. As @kvetcha mentioned, it’s great that you can push the button and got about doing other things. I did a 5/5 cleaning cycle and the record was still a tiny bit wet. I did another 5min drying.

Now, I tried to clean a 1971 first greek pressing of Led Zeppelin. There was always some distortion on The Battle of Evermore. This didn’t make things better on that track, but the record otherwise played very good, I think better, very silent, not a pop to be heard. I will have to clean a few other records to see how really good it is, but so far I love the ease of use.
 
Mr Moustache said:
So I decided to try and clean a record in the living room. While this thing is not super loud, I will have to do that in another room. My SO was complaining about the noise, and you def can’t listen to a record at the same time. As @kvetcha mentioned, it’s great that you can push the button and got about doing other things. I did a 5/5 cleaning cycle and the record was still a tiny bit wet. I did another 5min drying.

Now, I tried to clean a 1971 first greek pressing of Led Zeppelin. There was always some distortion on The Battle of Evermore. This didn’t make things better on that track, but the record otherwise played very good, I think better, very silent, not a pop to be heard. I will have to clean a few other records to see how really good it is, but so far I love the ease of use.
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The drying time effectiveness seems to be highly reliant upon your local humidity level. 5 minutes did a great job for me but I’ve heard from a few other folks that they needed 10. I guess that’s why there’s a toggle.

I am loving this thing, though. It does what it says on the tin.
 
jamieanderson1968 said:
I like my squeaky clean but hate dragging it out for 1 record so I wait until the weekend. But then life gets in the way, so I like the idea that I could put a new record on the clean while making myself a drink or a snack then come back and spin it.
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seems perfect to start cleaning, go grind and brew coffee, come back to a clean record to play while drinking
 
Mr Moustache said:
So I decided to try and clean a record in the living room. While this thing is not super loud, I will have to do that in another room. My SO was complaining about the noise, and you def can’t listen to a record at the same time. As @kvetcha mentioned, it’s great that you can push the button and got about doing other things. I did a 5/5 cleaning cycle and the record was still a tiny bit wet. I did another 5min drying.

Now, I tried to clean a 1971 first greek pressing of Led Zeppelin. There was always some distortion on The Battle of Evermore. This didn’t make things better on that track, but the record otherwise played very good, I think better, very silent, not a pop to be heard. I will have to clean a few other records to see how really good it is, but so far I love the ease of use.
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did you or @kvetcha order the spare set of filters or whatever it was too ? i just remembered those and was wondering if they came with the package too
 
BazookaTooth said:
did you or @kvetcha order the spare set of filters or whatever it was too ? i just remembered those and was wondering if they came with the package too
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At the time Humminguru put out a call for those orders, it was for the purpose of assuring they could be sent with the cleaner, so I'm hopeful the answer to this is 'yes.'
 
I’m 1085 apparently. I really thought I was higher up the chain. Anywang, I’ll be happy when it arrives

jamieanderson1968 said:
I like my squeaky clean but hate dragging it out for 1 record so I wait until the weekend. But then life gets in the way, so I like the idea that I could put a new record on the clean while making myself a drink or a snack then come back and spin it.
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I’m n the same boat. I usually let new records sit until I can find the time break out the squeaky clean and the wet vac. Normally, I have a marathon cleaning and spinning session every 2-3 weeks. Right now I have a backlog of records waiting for the Guru to arrive.
 
What's the (distilled?) water consumption on this? I've seen mention of needing to replace the water at some interval. How much water is used to clean 10 records, per manufacturer recommendation, for example?
 
Splunders said:
What's the (distilled?) water consumption on this? I've seen mention of needing to replace the water at some interval. How much water is used to clean 10 records, per manufacturer recommendation, for example?
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It uses about 350 mil and it’s run through a filter upon draining, so you can realistically reuse it a few times, I would think.
 
Mr Moustache said:
Yep it did came in the box. I didn’t hear from import duties or anything either, so that’s good news.
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I don't believe import duties factor in the U.S. unless you're importing for resale. There are U.S. commerce sites that spell it out. I've looked them up before but I'm too lazy to do that right now. I believe there are quantity and dollar thresholds, whereby surpassing them the assumption is that the importation is for commercial purposes. I've never paid import on any purchase from anywhere in the world.
 
dansomeone said:
For the general public, just in time for Christmas!
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usd price guess ?
 
Splunders said:
What's the (distilled?) water consumption on this? I've seen mention of needing to replace the water at some interval. How much water is used to clean 10 records, per manufacturer recommendation, for example?
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I don’t remember seeing mentioned how many time you could reuse the water. I cleaned 7 records yesterday, reusing the water every time. When I cleaned the filter afterwards it wasn’t really dirty, so I’d say for relatively clean records I would go up to 10? For really dirty ones that would be different. I think it makes sense to batch clean them, at least for me.
 
So, what do people think about water? We have clothes dryer and there is this tank with water from the drying cycle. I take it this water is at least without minerals and such? But is it safe to use for record cleaning. It's not distilled water as the one I can get at the pharmacy, but can it still be used? This would take costs down a bit and it's convenient as it is literally in the house!
 
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