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Reducing background fizz and pops on Vinyl.

My Question is what are the best methods to reduce the background fizz and crackle on Albums. 99% are brand new Vinyl and sound excellent just when it goes thru silent passages it seems to enhance a bit. So is there a Liquid product to treat the vinyl, better stylus, or phono-preamp to help in this? I am not very experianced in Vinyl so I am sorry if this is not a valid situation to fix. Also, I use an Anti-static brush from audioquest before use which seems to pull all visible dust and contaminents. Thanks
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maxgain
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The best method is a wet vac system like the Nitty Gritty or VPI, I am aslo hearing good things about the Disc Doctor products, but I still think you need to have a wet vac too.
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marakanetz
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Face the fact: vinyls will ALWAYS have a surface noise even brand new even after VPIying or Nitty-Grittying or other types of cleaning. You can certainly use a "forgving" cartridge/stylus like Shure or AudioTechnica paired with some project phono box but that's not the way to outperform CDs.
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jfrech
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What is your equipment? TT, Cartridge ?? Better TT and cart. do reduce noise to some extent...cleaning will do even more...
paddy
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Optimising the set up of your turntable pays dividends as does better quality hardware. I have found that all aspects of set up contribute in some way or another to the amount of surface noise I hear as well as better tables, arms and cartridges.

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psychicanimal
1,738 posts
 
What the Disc Doctor recommends is a vac to extract the rinse water, not to do the actual scrubbing. There's a DIY wetvac design in (www.enjoythemusic.com).
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