“I’ve got to give Ramar cre­dit. In one fell swoop it has ele­va­ted the pro­sa­ic record-clea­ning brush into some­thing far bey­ond what its hum­ble ori­g­ins ever sug­gested it could be. Would I buy one? Darn right I would. Extra­va­gant, okay, but rela­ti­ve to the cost of your LP rig and vinyl libra­ry, this…

Every vinyl-spin­ning audio­phi­le knows the importance of clean LP sur­faces and pro­ba­b­ly owns at least one car­bon-fiber record brush. But Ramar, head­quar­te­red in Ger­ma­ny, has ele­va­ted the pro­sa­ic brush into some­thing, well, über-luxu­rious. The two-pie­ce case is made of solid wood, mil­led from a sin­gle woo­den blank, then impec­ca­bly oiled and finis­hed in your choice…

The more orbits around our sun one tra­vels, the more one comes to app­re­cia­te tho­se objects made by hand with a com­mit­ment to qua­li­ty, and a sin­gu­la­ri­ty of pur­po­se in their design and exe­cu­ti­on. I’m spea­king of ran­ge­fin­der came­ras, point-to-point wired val­ve ampli­fiers, idler turn­ta­bles, small-batch whis­ky, bespo­ke road bikes… record brushes. I never thought…

Hand­ling the ramar brush is a pure plea­su­re. It feels very good to the hand, can be sto­wed back in the lid with a sin­gle move­ment after each use and turns the clea­ning of records into an almost sen­su­al expe­ri­ence. Review: Ramar record brush

  “A record brush? Yes, a record brush. Mind you, not just any sort of record brush. Put dif­fer­ent­ly, my Kuz­ma XL DC is not just ano­ther turn­ta­ble, much less a Crosby $99 Ama­zon spe­cial. See what I mean? Frank­ly, record brushes are a must have acces­so­ry for your LP play­back pro­cess. Gene­ral­ly spea­king, they…

  “Ramar is a small Ber­lin-based manu­fac­tu­rer of artis­a­nal record brushes and access­ories. The company’s foun­der, Ran­gel Vasev, deve­lo­ped his brush after fin­ding none on the mar­ket that met his stan­dards, aes­the­ti­cal­ly or with regard to mate­ri­als employ­ed in their manu­fac­tu­re. “While sear­ching for the right equip­ment, it beca­me clear to me that the­re was a…

Ber­lin-based hi-fi acces­so­ry brand Ramar makes pro­ducts for peo­p­le who love inno­va­ti­on but also value tra­di­tio­nal craft­sman­ship. The Ramar series of vinyl record brushes is a gre­at exam­p­le of the company’s approach to design. Crea­ted by brand foun­der Ran­gel Vasev, the brushes are ele­gant and inge­nious at the same time. They fea­ture spe­ci­al­ly desi­gned, six…

In the Novem­ber issue of Ste­reo­phi­le Micha­el Fre­mer asks the ques­ti­on “The Most Ele­gant Record Brush Ever?” and com­pa­res seve­ral record brushes. Are the record brushes from ramar real­ly the most ele­gant ever? Here you can find the ans­wer: Ana­log Cor­ner #303: Acces­so­ri­ze Your Ride

ramar par­ti­ci­pa­ted with his record brush ‘Tina’ in the Ger­man Design Award 2021. The jury is enthu­si­a­stic and awards a »Spe­cial Men­ti­on« in the cate­go­ry Excel­lent Pro­duct Design — Enter­tain­ment. Thus our record brushes belong now to the small, sel­ect cir­cle of win­ning works of the year 2021. About GDA The Ger­man Design Award (GDA)…