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Clean records on a wet-vacuum machine that brought platter-and-vacuum cleaning to a real price.
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about okki nokki
Okki Nokki is a Dutch record-cleaning-machine brand — the name is Rotterdam slang for thumbs-up — with its first machine designed by Johan Bezem, who began the project in 2004 and brought the cleaner to market in the years that followed. Bezem ran the company for well over a decade; after his passing, his daughter Sanne Bezem took it over. The product premise has stayed narrow and durable across that span: a wet-vacuum cleaner that rotates the record on a platter, lets the user scrub cleaning fluid into the grooves, and then draws the fluid and loosened debris off with a vacuum arm, leaving the disc dry. The line is deliberately small. The current machine is the Okki Nokki ONE, sold around the $799 mark, with a ONE DV variant — a single, well-sorted record cleaner rather than a sprawling catalog. That focus is the point: it competes in the entry-to-mid record-cleaning category against Pro-Ject's VC-S, Record Doctor, and the lower Clearaudio machines, undercutting ultrasonic and statement-tier cleaners while delivering the platter-and-vacuum method that audiophiles trust. In the US the machine is distributed by VANA Ltd. and stocked by retailers including Music Direct. The brand carries unusually broad named-press coverage for an accessory: The Absolute Sound, Stereophile, Analog Planet, Tone, and ecoustics have all reviewed it, with TAS calling a later revision a major leap forward in product design. It is a recognized accessory-category name rather than a statement-electronics brand. Production has returned to the Netherlands after a period of overseas manufacturing.