Did you happen to ask them why the shipping cost tripled from the kickstarter/preorders to now?
I believe that is down to the entire worlds economy almost collapsing
Lol, no. I was asking for a favor with my hat in my hand. That would be a good question. I assume it's either because they ate some of that cost during the KS or as @jamieanderson1968 pointed out, shipping has just gotten more expensive.
Ah, of course. Good thing I just bought an ultrasonic record cleaner. That will be useful in the darker times to come.
When you've taken refuge from the radiated atmosphere after a long day of hunting mutated pigeons and rats, make sure to clean them in your Hummniguru!
Mmmmm, mutated pigeon soup.
powered by your home brew bicycle cranked generator
If the records are beaten up I personally don’t think this cleaner (or any cleaner) will do much for it. It is not a miracle worker. Scratches are scratches and bad pressings are bad pressings. From my experience so far, this machine does a fantastic job with records that have some surface noise due to dirt and pops and clicks. It helps reveal some more detail in the recordings of VG+ albums. It may incrementally improve your African records but not sure how big that difference would be. If that’s the only reason why you want it, I’d probably pass on it personally…or take one of those records somewhere to be ultrasonically cleaned and see if there’s any difference.
Quite a few of their Kickstarter updates mentioned issues with shipping. Right now they are only allowed to ship 10 packages a day to Europe and the UK. Between that and all the hits taken with COVID, not shocked that the shipping went up. Just didn’t expect it to be 3x!
This. I wouldn’t be surprised if, at this price point, local stores start buying these to offer inexpensive cleaning. Maybe one of your nearby shops will do so!
Just sent mine, it’s a difference of $100 USD so a pretty big deal.
I think you're right - I might try some of them out in a ultrasonic cleaner first. Mine vary between G+ and VG+ so I reckon there's gains to be had, just not sure how much (very few are scratched, but a fair few are pretty dull).
have you tried it since they updated the shipping costs?
Not worried so much about the price but just it getting here in good condition during the Xmas rush. I am pretty confident they will do another run in Jan/Feb if they are sold out.
I think it’s almost definite that they will keep producing these. Just a question of how quickly they can manufacture them.