Record Cleaners...Back to Basics

   Ok, so the holidays are over, everyone's licking their wounds over their wallet and credit card expenditures. So thinking ahead to what might be your next purchase for the new year, or later in the year,  more than likely, top of the list should be a good record cleaner.  Not just the average ho hum type like the VPI's (although the 16.5 is the affordable industry standard), Clearaudio, or Okki Nokki, and their ilk. We're talking a great one. One that doesn't recontaminate the record by using a reusable dirty arm wand, no matter how much one rinses it to try and clean it.  No, we're talking the one, the only, the original record cleaning machine, the Keith Monks RCM from England.  If you have a sizable record collection, you owe it to yourself to finally get something that will bring the most out of your valuable records. And I do mean valuable. Check Discogs for prices, you'll be surprised at how much the market has jumped up on some of your 80's gems.  Clean copies of classic rock are commanding some pretty high prices as well.  You simply haven't heard your records to their utmost if they've not been cleaned on either the Keith Monks machines, or another fav that the Haven is most fortunate to have,  the KL Audio ultrasonic machine. The KL Audio cleans like none other, and gives a different sonic splendor than the Keith Monks. I'm often hard-pressed to decide which I like best.  There is a quality of cleanliness that each uniquely give, and luckily I don't have to choose.  What I generally do is use the Keith Monks first, which releases the stamper polymers, and then give it a spin in the KL.  If you need to be convinced, please bring several records over and we'll do a before and after test.  But as my friend Tony says, bring your diaper along, you'll be amazed at what these two units can do.    Schedule a visit, it only takes a matter of minutes to make one a believer of the clean. 
  As to you digital only folks, I have something for you to put on your shopping list as well....it's not here yet, so we'll reveal soon.  After all, it's only the second week of January. Give yourself plenty of time to heal your holiday wounds......
  Keith Monks and KL Audio...only the best from Stereo Haven.  And we're very happy to announce that Keith Monks has a US distributor finally, so parts will be stocked for easy access, etc.  I get many people calling for parts for their 40 something year old machines.  A testimony to value!