A PERSONAL NOTE FROM CHARLES KIRMUSS, FOUNDER:
Music brings Love to the World!
OUR NEXT EVENT:
Capital Audio Fest. Nov 08, 2024, 10:00 AM EST – Nov 10, 2024, 4:00 PM EST
Hilton Rockville, 1750 Rockville Pike, Rockville, MD 20852, USA
Booth 7.
Bring us a record to restore!
Meet Canadian Jazz singer and writer Anne Bisson in our stand!
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Also check out the 30 minute seminars at the show in the record fair area with Q&A:
FRIDAY:
12 PM: Record Cleaning Myths Revealed
SATURDAY:
2 PM: Why do Kirmuss Restored Records fetch More Money in the Used Marketplace?
SUNDAY:
2 PM: Why Buy Used Records Over Some New Releases?
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Kevin Jackson from our UK HQ will be at the show as well!
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HOT OF THE PRESS AND JUST BACK FROM AUSTRALIA:
1) Do take a look at the latest videos of the Kirmuss process in action, unscripted. Recorded by "An Aussie Audiophile" (Shawn with 2.5K followers after a year) and presented on his YouTube channel), see the proof of record restoration and how we can both quantitatively and qualitatively measure the effectiveness of any record cleaning process. AND PROVE RECORD RESTORATION.
How does your current process compare?
Do current processes do anything more than just to shine a record?
In his intro video a record reseller saw his record that was previously cleaned and shined by a peer ultrasonic attest to where the Kirmuss process removed the air dried coating dried onto his record which the Kirmuss removed and RESTORED his record. Using the Kirmuss saw added $500 (AUS) to the selling price of the record.
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Visit also our KirmussAudio YouTube channel. Two short video clips show two records that were brought in by their owners at the CONSAM and Kirmuss-Margules audio event in Mexico City this past November. Records brought in for us to restore were previously cleaned using a vacuum based cleaning machine and a purported 120KHz ultrasonic. As we do at all events, a before and after auditioning was performed.
In the video:
Connected was a spectrum analyzer.
See, hear and feel the results of Kirmuss Record Groove Restoration.
The KirmussAudio KA-RC-1 is not a surface cleaner or shiner.
Unlike peers,
We state and guarantee a 1.3 to 1.4 dB gain over floor and an 8% increase in frequency response in new pressings. Between 3 and at times upwards of 9 dB gain over floor and heard and measured an 18-28% increase in frequency response in our processing vintage records of provenance unknown.
2) To dispel yourself many of the mistruth as to record care, when considering the purchase of any cleaning machine or using any chemicals or process:
>Ask what is the change in the floor noise level and frequency response of the record after processing.
>If considering an ultrasonic machine, is it a real ultrasonic using cavitation, and if so, what is the measured cavitational energy in the tank and between all records from bottom of the tank to the top, measured in Cavins or Watts per Square Centimeter. THE KIRMUSS OFFERS 810 CAVINS from the edge of the record to the dead wax area.
3) About Alphason Tonearms:
Mike Knowles in the late 70's developed most of the tonearm designs sold globally. Considered as the creator of the modern day tonearm, some sold by SME, and of which his HR-100S saw 25% of its UK production sold to the US through SOTA. In 1985, The Absolute Sound called it the best tonearm in the world and was their reference standard. His latest design released at AXPONA 2024, the HR-200S, is NOW AVAILABLE AT SOTA.
KirmussAudio is proud to support Mike's NEXT REFERENCE STANDARD in tonearms, and are honored to be the service and support center for Alphason in North America.
Details: www.alphasonaudio.com
FAQs
A: You can clean two 33 1/3, one 45, and one 78 at the same time. The spacing between the records is crucial to the process, any larger number of record within the same space reduces the advantage of the ultrasonic that works the surfactant into the record grooves.
To the bath: We suggest you change out the distilled water with the 1.4 ounces of 70% IPA in the tank after restoring between 15 to 20 records or when the water becomes murky. Severely contaminated records will show up with murky water in the tub. Do not let the water stand in the restoration system overnight. It will grow fungus once the alcohol has evaporated. Please discard.
A: You should be able to clean between 25 and 40 records before requiring a new spray bottle. (60 mL). The number of applications depends on the number cycles that you require to restore the record.
To remove the nasty effects of L'Art du Son: Six cycles would see less records restored, around 20.
The cost broken down is reasonable: Between 0.28 and 0.38 cents per record. Not including the distilled water.
Indeed the cost varies based on the number of cycles. Typically we see 3 or 4 cycles.
Also available: a 300 mL refill bottle. This is approximately 20% lower in cost.
