CES 2013

The superbly built and ultra-quiet Hannl line of record cleaning machines will once again be available in America, according to Advanced Multimedia France, representatives of which attended T.H.E. Show at the Flamingo Hotel. The line runs from machines costing $2500 to the $6000 Aragon ELB.

The line has been considerably upgraded since I last saw one. They now use two brush systems: the rotating bristle one that is said to get deeply into the groove and one for surface cleaning before applying the velvet lipped vacuum wand.

The top of the line model allows you to continually vary platter speed and/or reverse direction, along with a series of other enhancements but the company says all of the machines clean with equal effectiveness.