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Ever wondered how good your favourite records could sound if given a deep professional cleaning on a state-of-the-art Record Cleaning Machine (RCM), using state-of-the-art, award-winning record cleaning fluids?
Now you can find out!

GrooveWorks is now offering a Premium LP Cleaning Service for audiophiles, using the fabulous Loricraft PRC-4- DL, and the Audio Intelligent Vinyl Solutions (AIVS) award-winning 3 step formulations.




This is a premium audiophile service for those who want to hear their favourite LPs projecting more detail against blacker backgrounds than they’ve ever heard before…in other words, sounding as good as they can possibly be using current technology. (See testimonials below)

There are many record cleaning providers out in the market who will perform a cheap, basic one-step clean, and we know that this type of service will satisfy most people…that’s not what this service is about.

People using this service typically have audiophile systems capable of extracting the best from the LP record but feel that their source component (the LP) is capable of giving more…and it can!

We don’t consider ourselves in competition with any other record cleaning service because, quite frankly, as far as we are aware, no one else is offering anything like this. It’s not cheap because it’s very labour intensive, and enzyme action is not a speedy process, at least not yet.

Can we guarantee that your record will sound like a new one after this process?

No, there’s still no way of reversing the effects of groove wall damage or pressing irregularities…but we can guarantee that it will be as clean as it possibly can be using current cutting edge formulations and equipment…and the cleaner a record is, the more undistorted recorded information is passed on through the system.

The cleaning process entails brushing the record with each of the applied fluids for 1.5 minutes in forward rotation, then 1.5 minutes in reverse, before vacuuming dry…this is no quick wipe over, rather a process that will typically take a half hour per record to complete.

Step1. Application and light brushing of AIVS’ Enzymatic Formula for 3 minutes

Step 2. Vacuum

Step 3. Application and light brushing of AIVS’ Super Cleaner OR Premium Archivist Formula (you choose) for 3 minutes

Step 4. Vacuum

Step 5. Application and light brushing of AIVS’ Ultra Pure Water for 2 minutes

Step 6. Vacuum


On completion of the cycle, the cleaned record is placed in a brand new premium anti-static inner sleeve, Diskeeper’s Double Audiophile Inner Sleeve, which is, in our opinion, the last word in luxury record sleeves.



Optional Step 7 preservation is also available, using LAST’s wonderful Record Preservative which will protect your valuable record from sonic-wave fracturing for 200 plays. Read about sonic wave fracturing here




Prices:

Premium Record Clean - $22.00 per record
Optional Preservation - $2.20 per record

Prices are inclusive of GST

A brand new Diskeeper Double Audiophile Inner Sleeve is included in the price.



Shipping is not included in the price.

FAQs

Does this make yours the world’s most expensive record cleaning service?

It probably is…but it’s also the world’s most thorough record cleaning service, as far as I’m aware.

Couldn’t I buy a brand new re-issue for less than the total cost of having mine cleaned?

You probably can, but there’s no guarantee that the features you love about your particular recording, such as the timbres of instruments, the dynamics, the presence etc will be replicated on the re-issue.

Let’s face it, as audiophiles we’re frequently disappointed with the sound of some re-issues (compression is often employed) when all we wanted was a ‘quiet surface’ version of the dynamic sounding original pressing we already own.



Testimonials:

Peter. They sound bloody amazing!

OK. Some of the crackle is still there, but that may well be because of contaminants embedded during pressing, damage to the vinyl and other factors.

On first listening, what your process seems to have done though is to open up the vistas dynamically, dimensionally and tonally. I have never before heard such depth and dynamics out of some of these discs.

• The Kinks 12" 45rpm - I can now clearly hear the limitations of the source tapes. There is a charm about hearing these limitations. I'm sure hearing the disc cutting master tapes themselves would not yield much more information. I can also now tell the "cheapness" of this compilation.
• The Kinks - Misfits. Mobile Fidelity Original Master Recording - This one is now in 3D! The bass extension is now defined and tight. The placements of the vocals have a beautiful air about them. Instrumentation is now more subtle.
• Simon and Garfunkel - BOTW Japanese SQ Quadraphonic edition - I've listened to this album since 1969! For the first time I've heard detail I never knew existed. Paul Simon's acoustic guitar has a depth and body to it, even while the drums and the bass are pounding away. The difference in vocal textures between both singers is now more obvious!
• YES - Union. German vinyl edition. Better noise floor. This edition now kicks the CD's arse! No contest! Some crackle still persists.

K.S. – Victoria

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