My first copy was dreadful. Noisy as shit. I cleaned it a couple of times… still shit. So I cleaned it a third time then bashed it across to Joe who reckons it’s absolutely perfect.Yeah, I had pop/skip issues on two copies before VMP just refunded me rather than give me a third copy. I recently replaced my cartridge so I'm gonna go back and re-listen to them to see if there might be any improvement. The record overall is very quiet, which probably makes those occasional defects all the more noticeable, unfortunately.