pop and click filters

The best of the bunch was the Burwen Research TNE 7000A Transient Noise Eliminator, also marketed under the KLH name. This is the unit that most recording studios had in their racks. They're available on Ebay for around $120 usually. I have one, but have never tried it out, so I can't give any firsthand feedback.

My plan was not to use it for listening, but to use it while burning any noisier lp's to CD, to cut down on the amount of manual declicking necessary in the computer. (The noise detection/elimination software is far from perfect, so there can be substantial work in finding and fixing clicks in the PC.)

p.s. If you don't mind the use of "black boxes" (unlike many diehard audiogoners) and you want to improve the sound of your vinyl, the unit to have is the DBX 3BX-DS (or the 4BX or 5BX). Properly used, it will WOW you!

Yes such devices have been manufactured. Back in the 1970s a company named Burwen put out two units, one for tape hiss, and one for clicks and pops. In the 1980s and 1990s a company named Packburn in Dewitt, NY (near Syracuse) put out the Packburn Audio Noise Suppressor Model 323A, which had a stage for diminishing hiss as well as a stage for diminishing clicks and pops. For a while it was listed in Stereophile's "Recommended Components." Stereophile called the Packburn "the Cadillac of nose suppression units." I ended up getting one directly from the company for $2,400. As the years have passed, it has developed a hum. Whether the hum is an internal issues, or whether there is an externl factor, I don't know. I haven't try to deal with it seriously because I now transfer my LPs to CDs using Sony's Sonic Forge software.

SAE offered the Impulse Noise Reduction System. There are two currently ending soon on EBay, one model 5000 and a 5000A.

I went to Google and typed "Packburn." There are quite a few sites dealing with noise reduction devices. Might be worth some of your time.

Thanks to all of you for your help. I will follow up on all your suggestions.