{"id":1409,"date":"2011-05-01T23:15:39","date_gmt":"2011-05-01T23:15:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.soundexchangetampabay.com\/?p=1409"},"modified":"2015-03-19T22:02:56","modified_gmt":"2015-03-19T22:02:56","slug":"vinyl-record-care-and-cleaning","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.soundexchangetampabay.com\/index.php\/classic-vinyl-listening-experience\/taking-care-of-your-records\/vinyl-record-care-and-cleaning\/","title":{"rendered":"Vinyl Record Care and Cleaning"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>It doesn\u2019t take very long searching the web to find dozens of articles about record cleaning using a variety of different methods and materials for cleaning vinyl records<\/strong>.\u00a0 Questions abound regarding the chemical cleaning agent, the type of brush, cloth, or machine to use for the best results.<\/p>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>But they can get old in a hurry and nothing is less fun than reading a blog that has two vinyl die-hards that are also chemists battle it out to the nth degree about solutions and techniques while calling each other morons.\u00a0 I do not feel that there are any absolute rules in that regard and that you should do what works for you and for your particular level of need and concern.<\/p>\n<p>So my approach is to present some simple ideas about cleaning vinyl, and also throw in some useful general information about record care in general.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>These guidelines are based on my 40 years of experience and it is the way that I do it.\u00a0 Exactly which products and techniques I use also depends on the \u201cvalue\u201d of the record that I am cleaning.<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>I am going to assume that you are a typical, average, record listener that just wants to learn something about record care and maintenance.<\/p>\n<p><strong>If you are an audiophile<\/strong> then you should probably go spend a lot of money on record cleaning equipment and chemicals because this practical, home style approach may not appeal to your sensibilities.\u00a0<em>For the record, many of these machines do a great job but are out of the reach of the more casual record listener because of their cost, which can be several hundred dollars.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It doesn\u2019t take very long searching the web to find dozens of articles about record cleaning using a variety of different methods and materials for cleaning vinyl records.\u00a0 Questions abound regarding the chemical cleaning agent, the type of brush, cloth, or machine to use for the best results.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1412,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[144],"tags":[149,147,150,146,145,148,35],"class_list":["post-1409","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-taking-care-of-your-records","tag-care","tag-cleaning","tag-lps-2","tag-materials","tag-methods","tag-storage","tag-vinyl-2","wp-sticky"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.soundexchangetampabay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1409","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.soundexchangetampabay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.soundexchangetampabay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soundexchangetampabay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soundexchangetampabay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1409"}],"version-history":[{"count":17,"href":"https:\/\/www.soundexchangetampabay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1409\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4187,"href":"https:\/\/www.soundexchangetampabay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1409\/revisions\/4187"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soundexchangetampabay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1412"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.soundexchangetampabay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1409"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soundexchangetampabay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1409"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.soundexchangetampabay.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1409"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}