Noisier Outer Edges?


This might be an obvious question, but why are most, if not all of my records are somewhat noisier on the outer edges than on the inside? Is this my setup? I have a Music Hall 5.1. I thought it might be all the finger prints from handling the records, but this is true for new records also, and I am very careful when it comes to handling records.

Thanks.
toufu

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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.