interesting device; but the days of charging a very large price premium for “hand built British goods” are long gone (16 years ago I worked in what remained of the British electronics industry – the stuff my then employer produced was riddled with flaws (and often hastily altered to produce something that actually worked), some designs were straight from the late 1970s (the development for the embedded systems still had master firmware on 8″ disk, in 2000!).
I suspect if you trawled the German hobby electronics forums someone will eventually publish a document showing you how to build the same thing for only a few hundred Euros using a similar cheap China turntable and Fischertechnik (google this if you are unfamiliar with it; it is the German competitor to Lego and supposedly aimed at “Kinder” but TBH mostly popular with people my age (but a bit smarter).
In any case the vinyl records of my generation (especially during the late 80s when house briefly went mainstream) were often poor quality pressings and recycled vinyl to start with; no amount of cleaning will rectify something that due to the use of lesser quality base material sounds a bit rougher than classical music or prog rock the older folk would have in their collections.
