RECORD DOCTOR VI RECORD CLEANING MACHINE
Upgrade paths loom large as part of the journey of hi-fi. Sometimes a curse (always something more to make your system sing), they are also one of its greatest pleasures. And they are not always found where one might expect. Most will upgrade something in the system path, exchanging old equipment for new, improving cables, even fixing up that final link in the chain, the listening room itself. But they might also sit off to one side, as in the machine under review here, which aims to improve the purity of your source material, reducing signal noise by physically removing impurities. All hail the vinyl record cleaner.
THE EQUIPMENT
Record cleaners range from cheap-and-cheer- ful simple wiping Solutions to ultrasonics and wildly expensive transcription systems of deep cleansing. The Record Doctor VI inhabits a helpful zone where the price is not frightening at $485, yet the product is highly regarded and long established, as evinced by this latest ‘VI’ version being
