Brand New Vinyl Static and Pops

lewm

... the laugh is on me. Staticmaster not Dynagroove. I can’t even imagine how I came up with that name ...

Perhaps an inner cranial static discharge. It could happen.

... if you have one don’t eat it. Further reading suggests polonium is still used.

NOW you tell me!

lewm

Has anyone got a Dynagroove brush?

Hmmm, Dynagroove was an RCA "innovation," no?

There’s a strip of polonium built in near the fibers that emits both positive and negative ions. You use it as a brush like the Audioquest brush. They were taken off the market because of the mildly radioactive polonium

That sounds like StaticMaster. It’s still available.

http://www.company7.com/staticmaster/products/staticmaster.html

jjbeason14

Could it be because I was spinning old dirty vinyl which made the platter dirty/dusty?

Yes. And has @flemke noted, a new LP isn't necessarily clean.