[S Clark]

Vacuum sure sounds fancy and expensive, and classy. Unfortunately submerge, brush/scrub then dry works better than wet vac

That is not my experience at all.  I used to do the whole clean in the kitchen sink thing, brush, rinse, rinse again.  It doesn't come close to what a KAB EV-1 can do just using the household vacuum cleaner.  The wet vac works amazingly better than just brush scrubbing, rinsing, and toweling. 
Also, the manual EV-1 is only about $75 bucks more than the spin cleans that I've seen.  I've tried both methods.  Vacuums are superior.

[jimdgoulding]

Call me a sceptic, but find it hard to believe that there is any discernable difference sonically.

[S Clark]

Call me a sceptic, but find it hard to believe that there is any discernable difference sonically.

Ok Jim, you're a sceptic... which is a reasonable position in this crazy hobby.  Also, my return to vinyl is fairly recent compared to most of the Vinyl Circle posters- just a couple of years, so take my experience with however many grains of salt you think necessary.  But my prior technique was to scrub a dirty record with a soft toothbrush and warm soapy water, rinse with tap water, then rinse with de-ionized water, then dry with a microfiber towel. Sometimes I'd use steam.  What I am doing now is apply cleaning solution (I like Phoenix over the KAB stuff), two slow rotations brushing back and forth with a trimmed boar bristle paint 3" paint brush (trimmed to make it stiffer), then wipe with a microfiber towel, spray with distilled, brush with the provided velvet sweep, then vacuum. 
So far, I have been impressed with the vacuum results.

[jimdgoulding]

It has been said that the love you give is the love you get.  Maybe it's just a case of that.  Or, maybe not.