Vinyl cleanliness


How many albums do you own that don't have ANY pops or clicks from beginning to end after a thorough cleaning? I have yet to find one, and was curious as to your results.
And yes, I know how to clean my albums ;)
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The albums that I bought new during the past 40 years 90%. The used albums that I have bought about 50%. Many of the extra "sounds" are not from surface contaminates that can be cleaned away, but from permanent vinyl damage either from poor cartridge alignment, worn out stylus use, or other inadvertent happenings while in the posession of the previous owners.
none. But will have to admit that some of the new 180 gram vinyl starts out pretty amazingly quite . Favourite new albums ( Jeff Beck "Emotion and Commotion fer instance) do pick up surface noise after may be 30 to 50 plays - still not terrible.
The puzzle for me is how some albums I've had for 40 years and have got to have been played hundreds of times - still are remarkably quite - other after 20-30 plays sound pretty noisy ?
Even very quiet records might have some light ticks. Usually it doesn't get in the way of the music.
It's also static; you can't get rid of it completely.
Japanese vinyl is usually very quiet.
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