HumminGuru Audio Desk

HumminGuru was established in 2020 by Happy Well International Enterprise Limited, a manufacturing company with extensive experience in providing full-service solution for OEM clients since 1999. Happy Well has also been involved in the creation and global sales of toy and infant products for over two decades.

The first product, the HumminGuru ultrasonic vinyl record cleaner, made waves in the industry with its successful Kickstarter campaign in February 2021. Surpassing its funding goal, the campaign raised over 3.6 million Hong Kong dollars, reaching over 259% of the initial funding target.

About HumminGuru Audio Desk

Driven by a commitment to pushing boundaries, HumminGuru continuously delivers innovative and affordable products that meet the needs of vinyl enthusiasts worldwide. Our focus is on providing a pleasant and convenient user experience, ensuring that every aspect of HumminGuru products is designed with the utmost attention to detail.

Over the past five years, HumminGuru products have gained significant popularity in overseas countries, earning the admiration of global users. We are honored to have received recognition from leading publications in the industry, including Hi-Fi Choice magazine, the-EAR, Lite-Magazin, HAUTE FIDÉLITÉ, Indie-eye, TONE magazine, VUMETRE, Positive Feedback, and many more.

In addition, HumminGuru places great emphasis on delivering excellent after-sales service for our valued users. We value open communication and prompt responsiveness, ensuring that our users receive the support they need in a timely manner. Our dedication to customer satisfaction has been a driving force behind our growing popularity and the trust placed in our brand.

Happy Well owns and operates a manufacturing plant in Southern China that was established in 1988. With a total area of 45,000㎡ manufacturing plants, a team of over 1,000 employees, and the capability of processing 20+ product lines with well-equipped facilities, our ability to meet production deadlines and high product quality is assured.

Audio Desk was founded in 2006 by Reiner Glass in Germany. The first prototype, about 6 months in, was a somewhat primitive "brute force" ultrasonic machine, actually quite similar to a couple of ultrasonic-only cleaning machines which are currently being marketed for LP cleaning by other companies. But brute force and the LP don't mix well. Keep in mind that the bottom of the LP groove where the pointy diamond wants to track, can be less than a half micron in size, and the modulations within the groove are even smaller and more fragile. And so began 3 more years of R&D to reduce the ultrasonic power which needed to be applied for safe and effective LP cleaning.

The addition of four counter-rotating microfiber-covered barrels as the primary means for the surface cleaning of fingerprints, etc., allowed for a significant reduction in ultrasonic wattage, and also serves an important fluid management function by wicking the ultrasonic agitation away from the LP surface into the cleaning solution where contaminants can be filtered. This fluid management is important because otherwise the contaminants the ultrasonic vibration removes from the surface of the record can simply redeposit back onto the LP surface.

Another improvement in cleaning efficiency allowing for a further reduction in the need for ultrasonic power was achieved through introduction of a cleaning solution surfactant to make the distilled water a better solvent when used in conjunction with the ultrasonic process.

Add a fluid filter to clean the re-circulating cleaning solution, and air filters to collect airborne dust which would otherwise be blown back onto the wet surface of the LP during the drying cycle, and you basically have the current machine - a record cleaning robot that cleans to the bottom of the groove, and then by using fan-assisted air drying, rather than static-inducing suction, leaves the user with a thoroughly cleaned record with no static charge attracting airborne dust.