Audiodesksysteme

When Reiner Gläss presented the world’s first fully automatic, ultrasonic-based record washing machine in 2009, the “Vinyl Cleaner”, he revolutionized our way of cleaning vinyl – and this at a time when hardly anyone would have given a damn about the survival of the record. The new, now third generation of the Vinyl Cleaner gave cause for celebration: Audiodesksysteme Gläss celebrated the tenth anniversary of the VINYL CLEANER with the Vinyl Cleaner PRO X!

Shy and reserved … terms like this keep coming up when people who meet Reiner Gläss for the first time try to characterize him. First of all, he leaves the field to his opponent and rarely says anything in reply – but then with an unmistakable Swabian accent. Despite his success, the 50-year-old does not pride himself on the fact that his Vinyl Cleaner is one of the absolute world market leaders in the record cleaning machine segment. What began ten years ago as a “one-man project” has now grown into a team of five who are not afraid to work weekend shifts to meet global demand. “I came to the high end like a virgin to a child,” he says with an almost innocent look. “Friends of mine complained that they couldn’t get their old records really clean. They kept encouraging me to come up with something”. The “urge” had a background: before the Vinyl Cleaner celebrated its triumphal march around the world, the Swabian invented a sound tuning device that was based on the test series of the biomechanic Dr. Erich Schrott and the engineer Wolfgang Schneider. The “CD Sound Improver” bevels the edges of CDs or DVDs at a defined angle of 36° and thus minimizes the influence of scattered light on the laser scanning. The result: better sound, better picture “The CD Sound Improver was a big hit, especially in the US and Japan, but at some point I decided to focus full-time on the Vinyl Cleaner”.