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Clean records the way the BBC did it — point-nozzle vacuum suction, scaled down for the living room.
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Keith Monks built the first electric record-cleaning machine in 1969, selling early examples to the BBC, and the company is credited as the originator of the point-suction RCM principle: a fine nozzle draws cleaning fluid and loosened debris off the groove under vacuum rather than wiping it across the surface. After founder Keith Monks's run, his son Jonathan relaunched the company as Keith Monks Audio Works, setting up a factory on the Isle of Wight off England's south coast. The current line runs from the compact, bamboo-cabinet Prodigy and Prodigy Plus — living-room-friendly machines that bring the point-nozzle method down to a domestic price and footprint — up through the larger discOveryOne and the heavier reference RCMs that the brand has long supplied to studios and archives. The machines are sold alongside the brand's own alcohol-free discOvery cleaning fluid. Keith Monks is a category specialist, not a mainline-electronics house: it competes with Loricraft (the other classic point-nozzle maker), Clearaudio, Nessie, and the ultrasonic camp on the question of how a serious vinyl listener cleans records. In the US it is supported by Keith Monks America (New England) plus an authorized dealer network that includes SkyFi Audio. Press coverage is substantial for a single-category brand — the Prodigy reviewed in HiFi+, the Prodigy Plus in SoundStage! Ultra, and the discOveryOne Redux in The Audio Beat. Machines are built in the UK on the Isle of Wight.