Turntables

@viridian I’m sorry, I don’t know how I missed this. So far, so good! Getting use to the Vinyl. I now buy new albums because at least they may not be analogoly( is that a word?) recorded, at least their not abused over 30 or 40 years of non audiophile grade players. Bottom line, I do enjoy the sound. Diana Karl sounds amazing on vinyl.

As for snap crackle and pop.  The vast majority of this is dirt!  Get a decent dedicated record cleaner.
It will amaze you by the loss of noise on records that you listened to before you got the cleaner. Putting on a couple of drops of a cleaner and giving it a wipe on your turntable is no where near as good as with a dedicated machine.  That likely only removes some dust.   There are good models from under $100 (Spin clean is one)  to more than your current buget.   I tried three cleaners.  First an Okki Nokki which lets you manually clean one side of one record a time and cleans and vacuums the record side. A very nice unit assuming you can tolerate cleaning one record side and take your time.  I fond mine to just take time and does a fine job.  I would redcommend this unit if you want a not outlandish priced unit that works well (but takes time).  A second cheaper unit ( a spin clean brand) that you turn by hand and and clean one disk at a time with a brush while half the record is submerged in the soution. It is reasonable in price, likely under
Ultrasonic units cost from about $300 up and claim to be able to do more disks at the same time.  I bought a cheap ultrasonic and got busy at home so have not really tried it with multiple records.  Mine does slowyl turn (maybe 3 rev per minute) the record(s).  High priced Ultrasonic units are great for a ton of records and filter the cleaning solution and some even raise the records to dry.  You are into several Kilobucks for a real good one.