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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
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
13,778 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?
tzh21y
1,654 posts
 
I was using the MoFi as an example. The older Japanese pressings are much better.

Many of the new reissues are not even remastered. The older originals, even though this comment is very general, in many cases are better. IMHO.
tzh21y
1,654 posts
 
Vinyl from the late seventies and early eighties is pretty quiet in many cases
80stech
20 posts
 
I totally agree, just about all my newer reoords (purchased within the last 2 years) are noisier than the ones I bought in the 80's. The worst was the re-release of pink floyd DSOTM. Extremely disappointing and almost turned me off of buying any more new vinyl.

Rainer
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