Noisier Outer Edges?

Toufu, I have noticed this on a few of my records. I use a Loricraft string record cleaner and often think it does a poorer job of vacuuming on the extreme outer grooves. I have not, however, been able to doubly clean these outer grooves and remove the problem. And I cannot account for why most records have this problem.

I must say, however, that I use the Walker Preclude system and recently got the new Step 4 final rinse. On one of these noisy outer groove records, it did greatly reduce the noise. I will be doing a final rinse on all my records in the next several months.

The stylus doesn't know about rpm: only about inches per second of vinyl passing by. Obviously the vinyl moves faster for the outer grooves, and this may aggrevate surface noise.

Ah, but you say...45 rps disks are quiet. I think that's because 45s are cut with a stronger groove. With an outer track of a LP you have the LP groove modulation with higher than average vinyl speed.

Usually the complaint is about audio quality of inner tracks. Here the vinyl is moving too slow.

Life is all about compromises.

I have this problem on some records. You start it out and it sounds like it's going to be a noisy record, and then it settles down a few groove layers in.

I had heard that it had to do with the stamping process, and if it's done a little too fast, the way the vinyl gets squished at the edges creates little fissures that cause this noise.

Thanks for the help, I will try the suggestions... Glad I am not the only one who noticed or having this problem.

I thought this could also be due to "non-fill" on the outer edge of the record, as Johnnyb53 alludes to...this phenomenon is really bad for me on the new Elvis Costello LP, despite trying 3 different copies.