HumminGuru Ultrasonic Vinyl Record Cleaner 40kHz with Auto Drying HG01 7/10/12 inch Review (2026)

Who the HG01 is for

This machine suits a home collector who wants meaningfully deeper cleaning than a manual brush and fluid routine can deliver, without the bulk, water use, or price of a large-tank ultrasonic cleaner meant for a shop or serious archive. Its compact size, about 13.5 by 6 by 11 inches, is designed to sit on a shelf near the rest of a record collection rather than needing a dedicated cleaning station. Anyone who wants to clean and dry a record in one automated cycle, rather than manually spinning it through a wash-and-dry rig, will appreciate the auto mode here. It is a poor fit for someone who needs to batch-clean a large haul of records quickly, since it handles one disc at a time.

What is under the hood

The HG01 uses a duo 40kHz ultrasonic system, with transducers positioned to agitate the water and dislodge fine debris from the grooves without the direct contact of a brush. HumminGuru's eco-focused design uses only about 350ml of distilled water per fill, which can be reused across multiple cleaning sessions rather than needing several liters like some larger ultrasonic tanks. Drying runs on manual 5 or 10 minute settings, or an automatic clean-and-dry mode that completes the whole cycle in about 7 or 10 minutes total, with an air filtration system meant to keep external debris from settling back onto the record while it dries. A thermal cutoff stops the machine if the water reaches 55 degrees Celsius, protecting both the mechanism and the record from heat damage. It weighs about 6.8 pounds and ships with 7 and 10 inch adapters alongside its native support for 12 inch records.

Setting it up and living with it

Setup involves filling the reservoir with distilled water, which HumminGuru recommends specifically to avoid leaving mineral deposits on records, and loading one record at a time using the included adapters for smaller formats. The auto clean-and-dry mode is the most convenient day-to-day option, since it runs the ultrasonic cleaning and drying cycle back to back without needing you to switch settings partway through. The power cord stores inside the unit's lid for tidy shelf storage, which matters given its compact footprint is part of the appeal. Because it processes one record at a time, cleaning an entire crate of records in one sitting takes real time, so many owners run it in short batches over several sessions rather than all at once. A separate concentrated cleaning fluid is sold to further cut drying time, though it is not included with the machine.

How it compares with other record cleaning machines

In the record-cleaning-machines ranking here, the HG01 sits at the top of a seven-item field, ahead of larger-tank machines like the VEVOR Sonic Cleaner and the INTSUPERMAI digital ultrasonic cleaners, both of which use several liters of water per session compared with the HG01's roughly 350ml. Against the HSRG auto-rotating cleaner and other 6-liter tank machines further down this list, the HG01's smaller footprint and lower water use trade away multi-record batch capacity for a design built specifically around single-record home use. That focus on compact, low-water cleaning is the main reason it ranks ahead of the larger-capacity machines here despite handling fewer records per cycle.

Bottom line

Choose the HumminGuru HG01 if you want genuine ultrasonic cleaning results in a compact, low-water machine that fits on a shelf and handles cleaning and drying automatically. It scores well here for fit and features, reflecting real convenience for a home collector, with its price and one-record-at-a-time pace as the main trade-offs against simpler, cheaper cleaning tools. If you regularly need to clean many records in one session, a larger-tank machine further down this list will process more discs per cycle, at the cost of using considerably more water and shelf space.

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