New Re-Issue Vinyl: Surface Noise, Ticks, Pops....

The Magic Eraser per Doug Deacon.

Everything else is second place.

The Zerodust is a pretender.

I totaly agree with most of the above posts about bad quality of new reissues.
This can be avoided if you buy the record in a record shop where you can LISTEN to it before buying, like in old days. The problem is that a vast majority of us are buying through internet virtual shops, without auditioning, this is a shame, because the few record shops remaining alive will not survive. The resurgence of the vinyl software is a reality, and all of us buying internet should sometime go shopping in a REAL record shop, and as a record collector , I can tell you it is more than half of the fun, plus the good advises for music you have from the shopkeeper, auditionning records to be sure you like them, not to mention new discoveries. It is like discovering new cultures . Record fairs are goldmines.Beeing too virtual has backsides, so we must react and move our asses to streetrecordshops and fairs.
When traveling abroad, why not visiting the local recordshops when our wives are in fashionshopping?

Stiltskin
There are a few inexpensive record player combination that will play vinyl with absolute minimal snap crackle and pops straight out of the sleeve.

Stiltskin, can you give a few examples of these "inexpensive" record player combo that minimizes surface noises?

Thanks
VZ