Australian Designed. Australian Made

Every product carrying the Secret Chord Analogue name is designed and made in Australia. Together, they now form what we believe is the most comprehensive and effective response to vinyl record care available: Record Restore for cleaning and restoration, and Vinyl Record Tracker for monitoring a collection's condition, cleaning schedule, and stylus wear — cataloguing, care, and maintenance working as one system rather than three separate habits.

Our Story
Secret Chord Analogue was founded by Stephen Price, who grew up around turntables and vinyl records and built his first amplifier and loudspeakers from a magazine design at university — a fascination that, decades later, grew into Amp Camp, a supervised tube-amplifier build workshop that's since partnered with Elekit of Japan and drawn vinyl enthusiasts from across the country.

The Science Behind Record Restore
Record Restore, our vinyl record cleaning and restoration system, grew out of years of research into Harold D Weiler's seminal 1954 study on the wear and care of records and styli. That research pointed to wet cleaning as the only safe, effective method — provided it fully breaks down the binder substances that defeat brushes and vacuums, and fully removes every trace of the resulting slurry. Record Restore was developed and tested against exactly those two requirements, and we're confident no other cleaning methodology ticks both boxes, as our customers regularly confirm.

Vinyl Record Tracker
Vinyl Record Tracker is the other half of that response. It gives a collection one integrated view of its condition, its cleaning schedule, and its stylus wear — logging every play, tracking every Record Restore treatment, and forecasting what a collection needs before it becomes a problem. Cataloguing tools tell you what you own; VRT tells you what's actually happening to it.

Experience It Yourself
Secret Chord Analogue offers high-quality music outcomes and experiences in modestly priced packages. Do your soul a favour: experience high-end audio at our analogue cabin in a relaxed, serene environment. Restore your records to a pristine state and hear things in them you've never heard before. Bring tube audio into your life with the personal satisfaction of building it yourself at
Amp Camp.

At the same time, Stephen had started work on a better method for improving vinyl record playback. He had discovered the seminal 1954 work of Harold D Weiler, “The Wear and Care of Records and Styli.” Weiler promoted wet cleaning as the safest and most viable method. Having tried and rejected various approaches to vinyl record cleaning, Stephen was convinced of three things: wet cleaning was the only safe and effective method for cleaning records; the binder substances identified by Weiler, which defeat brushes and vacuums, had to be overcome; and, most importantly, 100% of the cleaning slurry produced by wet cleaning had to be removed.

Our vinyl record cleaning product, Record Restore (SCA's cornerstone product) is the result of many years of development and testing. We are confident it fully meets the identified objectives. No other cleaning methodology ticks all these boxes, as our customers constantly confirm to us.

Secret Chord Analogue offers high quality music outcomes and experiences in modestly priced packages. Do your soul a favour! Experience high end audio at our analogue cabin in a relaxed and serene environment. Restore your records to a pristine state and hear things from them that you’ve not heard before. Bring tube audio into your life with the personal satisfaction of building it yourself at Amp Camp.