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Records are getting noisy

I asked this as part of someone else's string last week, but I am getting a little more irated every day with this problem. Some of my new vinyl (bought within the last year) is starting to get lots of pops and cracks. Not scratches, not skips, just pops and clicks. Drives me crazy.

All records are cleaned with VPI 16.5(Walker method right now, and steamed if the problems doesn't get any better), machine and tubes are working perfectly. All records then get ZeroStat after cleaning and put into MoFi sleeves. Records are then cleaned with an Audioquest brush prior to playing.

I have even tried Gruv Glide, and no change on certain records. I am listening to one of my all time favs right now, Shelby Lynne "Just a Little Lovin" and it's driving me crazy. The record is clean, has always been well cared for, and now it's a crackin, poppin, annoying mess!!

What have I done, and how do I fix it???
macdadtexas
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cerrot
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I was having this issue and realized I was tracking (VTF) at the lower end of mfg recommended tracking force. Increased the VTF to max of the recommended and all noice gone.
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syntax
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Do you have the double Lp or the 4 single side Lps of Alexander Gibson?

Hi,
the one in the Picture is the latest from CR, Gibson in 45 Clarity Vinyl.

I have the first 180gr Reissue in 33rpm, the 45 set in 180gr, the 200gr pressing I avoid whenever I can, and that one is their latest.
It is - in my opinion - worse than the ones above.
Ticks and Pops are in the grooves, even with my RCM I can minimize it, but some are still there. But it is more silent than than the latest before.
I think, the Vinyl they use is good, but the cooling process.... is not made from someone who takes care or knows how to do it really right.
From the Sound, well, when you don't know the others, it is good. But I am not really moved. You hear the limitations in the High Frequencies, it is not from the Mastering, I think, it is the old tape (or a played to death copy from it. How long does CR offer this record now? 14 years?)
audiofeil
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>>10-21-09: Tzh21y
Even the new mofi is not as quiet as the old mofi.<<

MFSL is hardly the standard by which vinyl noise should be measured.

Many of them really suck.
stiltskin
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It is a mystery what this generation of recording engineers and owners of these new labels are thinking about.$$$
New methods, 180 and 200 gram vinyl, differant formulas and processes that they say is the best available for producing vinyl pressings....No don't think so.

One fantastic mono recording comes to mind that Classic re-issued and totally screwed it up is Ella Fitzgerald, Clap Hands Here Comes Charlie.
Looking at the original release there is nothing special about the record itself, played with a mono cartridge the fa-nominal music with extremely low surface noise and the level of recording quality would bug your eyes out.

Anyway, anyone here that reads main stream music reviews see any indication at all of anyone running down most of these new generation pressings of the past few years?
eldartford
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Mono playback is sensitive only to horizontal movement of the stylus, whereas stereo is sensitive to both horizontal and vertical. It is well known that low frequency rumble is mostly vertical, and is eliminated by mono playback. However, it seems to me that many kinds of defects in the vinyl would be more vertical than horizontal, and therefore would also be minimized by mono playback.
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