Brand New Vinyl Static and Pops

Look, jj, even clean records can have static. Two separate issues.

Cleaning is the biggest benefit.

After that, deal with static. The best way known to mankind is, sadly (one does not like to support a company selling fake junk), the Furutech Destat III. All the same, do not save up for this until you can get your disks clean. There are cheaper ways of reducing static (Zerostat, brushes etc) but they don't work as well.

Demagnetizer:

• $1.9K CS Port IME1
• $1.8k DS Audio ION-001

Since you got different results with different vinyl LPs, makes me wonder if different vinyl has unique static electricity.  

https://www.audioasylumtrader.com/ca/listing/Accessory/CS-Port/Static-Eliminator/IME1/225403

Seems like a great price still a bit out of my means 😕 but contemplating.

Hey, dogberry,

Are you saying the Furutech Destat III is fake junk?

???

Kennyc, Magnetism and static electric charge are two different things, even though static chargecan make two things that are charged with opposite polarity (positive on one and negative on the other) cling together.  The point being that it is quite controversial whether LPs ever need to be demagnetized, whereas no one doubts they often become electrostatically charged up. A "demagnetizer" designed to work on LPs will do nothing, zero, nada for static electric charge.