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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
audiofeil
4,011 posts
 
>>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
499 posts
 
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
4,262 posts
 
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.
stiltskin
499 posts
 
Eldartford ,my point is comparing Classics mono re-issue of this fabulous music with a great original release.

Classics re-issue is a pale mediocre effort at best and should not be purchased.
I see on Acusticsounds this particular mono re-issue is for sale for $90.00...hmm.

I have many other vintage pressings that were released in stereo and some have been directly compared to re-issues of this decade.
I can tell you they got only very few right with a couple surpassing an original that I have on hand.

As long as people keep buying them, they will not learn what their doing wrong...but then again.
lewm
13,137 posts
 
I just bought a new issue Cassandra Wilson jazz LP. The sonics are good to excellent, but there is a constant low level background noise, like a whooshing or what I would call "tube rush" throughout the LP, audible most during the spaces between tracks. I know that it is not tube rush or anything else generated by my system, because the noise is not there on any other LP. I'm going to give it a washing, but I don't expect this noise will be eliminated by cleaning; I think it is recorded on the LP. Has anyone else heard this or something like it?
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