Flipping record causing series of loud pops

For many of my years in this hobby, static plagued my enjoyment of vinyl playback. I used to (carefully) remove the polonium strip from a Staticmaster brush and glue it to the underside of a Watts Dust Bug until I found the needle talk to be audible after switching to a lower noise phono preamp. Rabco, H-K, Linn, Technics, SOTA...all had static. I used a Discwasher Zerostsat for years. Then I got a Well Tempered TT/TA and have never had a pop since 1989...heating season, summertime all the same. My theory is it’s the viscous damping and the acrylic platter that together make it immune. Whatever the reason, WT has solved an age old conundrum of vinyl playback and no one seems to regard this as a breakthrough that should be emulated. Has anyone else identified another make of TT similarly static-proof?  Clearaudio uses a synthetic platter and a magnetic bearing that may confer the same benefit, but I’ve never lived with one. 

Hi oldhvymec and others.

All very well to mute after every side if you have a mute switch.
But if you have to down the volume pot and then up it again every 20 minutes you will soon wear it out.  After all many get noisy after 20 years of normal use (i.e not often touching it, muting at end of a session).
At that rate you could even wear out a mute switch, although this is much cheaper to replace than a pair of high quality pots.

I once got the static 'pop' and cured it with a Zerostat aimed at mat and turntable.  I haven't had it since so am safe to leave the volume up.

I flipped my first record in about 1962 and I've used valve pre-amps since the mid-70s.  I leave the volume where it is and have never had any problems, certainly not with blowing tweeters every month or two.  I don't get 'pops'.

Leave fetish to the fetishists.

Acrylic platter, felt mat, not so good record brush, humidity, a more sensitive phono stage?, Try to turn the volume down or mute till you short it out.

I don’t get pops either. Analog volume controls require movement to stay clean. A C20 is the last true off on volume pot.. No movement it WILL get noisy. The mute buttons on Macs will last 75 years if they last a minute, same with a volume pot.. If you don’t use them.. 10-15 years before you have clean them correctly, for another 10 years of use.

After a couple hundred TT repairs and builds.. I’ve seen a few weird things.. Always volume down. My newer C2500 does it automatically. It mutes then ramps up the volume (slowly) to the last volume set.. You can actually set that ramp up speed too. I wonder WHY?

It’s in the manual look it up.. Geez.. Who want’s to test the "It hasn’t happened to me yet", guys suggestion.. Mine doesn’t pop either, HIS DOES... This is the fix.

Go argue with GOD, I’m just the mechanic.. :-) I don’t care if you're too LAZY to turn a nob.. Like I said, I BET money you don't use your turn signals.. I BET..

HE'S asking for help, not, "I don't need any, mine doesn't pop".. Good for you..

Just one POP away from the tweeters you probably can’t hear anyways, so WTF, ay? Silly advise from silly people..

Regards

its all been said.  Its static.  Always turn down volume when changing pretty much anything. Duh.
But i have no idea why your tube phono stage has the issue.  Maybe a bad ground? A tube is just a voltage controlled valve,.