Replace inner sleeves on used records?


I buy a lot of used records. Unless there is something special about a sleeve  I throw away the inner sleeves and replace them with Mobile Fidelity Sound Lab inner sleeves. Should I always keep the original inner sleeves regardless of their interest level?

kenrus

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I just keep the original sleeve.  If it's paper that's fine.  If it's cardboard, I clean the record and put a Nagaoka sleeve inside.  There are few of these; they were popular on 1970s rock.

When I clean a record I put it inside a Nagaoka sleeve, inside the original sleeve.  Nagaoka sleeves are too thin to properly protect the disc.  They are sold for their disc-friendly inside surface in long-term storage - some of our vinyl is 70 years old now.  Incidentally, many early CDs now no longer work.  Perfect sound forever only on LPs.

These practices identify the discs I have cleaned.  I have never cleaned any disc more than once and probably less than 10% of my collection.  I clean them only when I can hear noise, on a Nitty-Gritty.