Vinyl cleanliness

Almost all of the new albums I buy (acoustic sounds reissues, etc) have been absolutely dead quiet. The old stuff that I originally bought and took care of (over 40 years) - no ticks and pops (or very few) but some surface noise. Others given to me by friends who never took care of them - very, very noisey no matter how well cleaned.

My new vinyl records, even after 10 - 20 plays - are as quiet as digital. My surface noise on older ones and everything else in general was greatly reduced and on the new discs totally eliminated when I received the VPI Periphery Ring.

Several of my older Deutsche Grammophone records that I bought in the 70s are defect free and still very quiet after all these years. Only one or two in my rock collection could I say are defect free.

Most of my albums are very quiet as well, with very few to no pops and ticks. (There will be some low level noise between tracks, but that is to be expected.)

One thing you can do to alleviate that problem is to wet clean your records and vacuum them dry before you play them, and that includes the brand new ones. Then use a carbon fiber brush before every play to get rid of any stray dust. This will keep your records from quickly accumulating pops and ticks. (However, nothing will keep them pristine forever, so the occasional pop and tick is to be expected and lived with, as that is just the nature of the beast.)

My two cents worth.

My experience is typical of the other posters . I use a carbon fiber brush and a spin clean. Most new stuff only needs the brush and they are very quiet. Even my wife who thinks vinyl is ridiclous can't believe how quiet the new stuff is. It was not that way years ago when all we had was vinyl in most cases.

I do have one older album (Dream of the Blue Turtles-Sting-Original Pressing) that is absolutely dead quite rivals my cd's for the absence of background noise.

I would agree with Elizabeth. Also, I listen primarily to classical music, and I find that classical music lovers tend to take better care of their records, so even buying used I have had quite good luck with noise issues. Very few of the records I buy used do I have to get rid of due to too much noise. And I think I have only bought one new record that ever had any issues. Perhaps you should find a new source?