Bin dug noisy records. Does it diminish your enjoyment?

Need more discerning pre purchase examination.  Gundge is OK as long as you own a cleaning machine. Scratches are not.

Don't blame only the lp's. But why buy a questionable lp even at 5$? 

I take much pride in deep clean used records with my Gem Dandy. I can almost always remove 90% of the crackles and pops and improve the record grade for the better. 

Noisy I throw it out ASAP!!

Well, first, I would not pay $5.00 for a scratched-up and dirty LP. Do I have them? Yes, but not dirty, as I clean them. Most of the worst offenders are from my original collection from years ago (back when LP’s were the only thing we had, and weren’t always careful with them), but also have also purchased many many period LP’s (a lot of classical) which have some surface noise, albeit clean.


After getting back into vinyl, no, it does not bother me too much (as long as it isn’t too extreme), as most all of them sound better than my hundreds of CD’s I began buying in the 80’s and well into the 2000’s. I now have the same albums on vinyl that I had on CD’s, and those ‘duplicate’ CD’s never really get played any more.

Try cleaning them 1st makes a BIG difference. I used a Kirmuss ultrasonic which worked well but a real PITA to use so now use a Keith Monks Prodigy and very happy.

Yes it does and that is why I switched to CDs decades ago. A silent background and a continuous hour of play was important to me.