The best high-end vinyl cleaning products

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Audiophile TLC for your records.

In the upper echelon of record care, you can expect crystal clear, dust and gunk-free, end results. Think: pristine clean records to play on your pristine system.

Read more: A guide to record cleaning

While budget cleaning options focus on a wider, manual array – such as brushes, cloths, and static guns – similarly to mid-range cleaning products, you’ll find automatic machines in the high-end.

The differences between mid-range and high-end machines lie in materials, overall build quality, and the cleaning detail results.

Higher-end record cleaning machines also tend to require less manual input, giving you a more fully automated experience.

Overall, record cleaning machines in this price bracket not only perform a more meticulous clean, but also make sure your records are dried properly.

This is crucial for high-end systems. Because high-end systems pick up greater details from your vinyl, imperfections are more noticeable. As such, it’s important to ensure that even the smallest, seemingly insignificant piece of dust is removed.

Quieter machines are also more prevalent in this price bracket, which again is a result of a finessed build quality.

As always, when choosing the right option for cleaning your records, we recommend that the description adheres to exactly what you are looking for. You should also assess how many records you will be needing to clean at any given time.

Below we look at our favourite high-end record cleaning options.


ClearAudio Smart Matrix Silent

Price: £1375
Pros: Silent, efficiently cleans
Cons: Dust cover is an extra £125

Verdict: ClearAudio Smart Matrix Silent is the record cleaning that offers a sleek design ethos, extremely easy to use system, and is almost dead silent.

We love Clearaudio turntables; they’re minimal, reliable, and offer a true audiophile experience. The company’s record cleaning machine – the Smart Matrix Silent – shares a similar ethos to its concept turntable design. It is a silent and sleek machine, boasting an exceptionally effective peformance. It’s also super easy to use; you don’t even have to press a button, all you have to do is move its tonearm. Featuring a 500W motor, it’s also a mystery how it manages to stay so quiet while cleaning your records.


Audio Desk Systeme 2022 Pro X Record Cleaner

Price: £2375
Pros: Unique ultrasonic cleaning option
Cons: n/a

Verdict: Ultrasonic clean that offers a meticulously fine, and deep clean.

While it might look like an Air Conditioner unit we can assure you that the Audio Desk Systeme Pro X record cleaner is safe to insert your records into for cleaning. While a version of this model has been around since 2016, it has consistently offered a squeaky clean experience for your records, and the 2022 editions adds some nice improvements on its predecessor. On top of its unique Ultrasonic clean cycle that has been trusted over the years, better drainage and drying has been added to make it one of the better record cleaning machines out there.


Degritter RCM

Price: £2700
Pros: 20 fan power options
Cons: N/A

Verdict: Degritter RCM does exactly what the name implies, removes grit and cleans your records. What more could you ask for?

Hopefully, you don’t have any grit in your record grooves, however if you do Degritter’s RCM record cleaning machine is made just for you. This is particularly helpful when cleaning newly acquired secondhand records. (It also works great for those who have a normal amount of dust and debris within your grooves.) Degritter RCM has 20 different fan power options. While many cleaners do a good job washing, they sometimes leave a slight residue if not properly dried. Luckily this machine gives you complete control over drying fan speed, power, and noise.