correct!! I am not that active these days, somehow saw the post, let me share briefly my experience.
I bought the Okki Nokki record cleaning machine few years back and its running flawlessly till date. Its a simple equipment - has a platter which is turned CW and CCW by a powerful motor, and a vacuum cleaner is fitted with a soft brush that when placed on a record surface sucks the dirt from the grooves. In LPs I believe in - "garbage in equals garbage out", i.e. if the record is already damaged nothing can help. But if a record is in good condition, need not be MINT/NEAR MINT, this machine cleans really deep and the result is mostly very good. I have samples of audio which turns out to be deadly silent. However, there are LPs which remained noisy but within reasonable bound, a few pointer
1. Buy old analog original pressing, not the newly released digital s***, they are nothing more than over hyped/over priced 12" CD
2. Try to buy LPs by physical inspection, place it under sunlight and determine the state of grooves, its an art and one develops this in decades.
3. Buy a turntable which produces only low-level signal, not the ones with "in built-phono...", Pro-ject, Rega entry level TTs are just fine
4. Buy a MM cartridge, ORTOFON, SHURE, AUDIO TECHNICA etc....
5. Use a MM Phono stage, again Rega, Pro-ject are better choice.
6. Buy less but quality LPs, spend the amount in VG++ to EXCELLENT LPs
7. Do not consider Record Cleaning Machine unless you are desperate for finest quality sound
By the way why LP?? it is a dead technology, LPs are not manufactured any more, what is on sale is not what used to be pure analog sound. Please take this as a suggestion from a well wisher who has gone bankrupt because of LPs. If you are into western music, CD pressings are as good as analog, but if you are into bollywood, CD pressings are poorer and LPs are equivalent to human organs these days in terms of cost.
all the best
Arnab