Russ I
Well-Known Member
Depends completely on the used record. No reason a 40+ year-old record couldn't play well and quietly, so I think it really comes down to how that record has spent its life until the point it's in your hands. But if your point is that expectations should be realistic, then yeah, I agree that the likelihood of a perfectly quiet play should have some association with the age of the record.Cleaners of the world: are you cleaning your 40+ year old used records (that look clean) expecting them to play with zero pops? Or do you hold a certain truth that used records will never be fully restored to their once pristine selves.
But thinking about this makes me realize that cleaning records has become similar to other aspects of being a vinyl junkie in that there's always the question of whether the result might be better with a more effective system, whether that's referring to a cleaning process or a turntable/cartridge/phono pre-amp/speakers, etc. Crazy.
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