My experience is typical of the other posters . I use a carbon fiber brush and a spin clean. Most new stuff only needs the brush and they are very quiet. Even my wife who thinks vinyl is ridiclous can't believe how quiet the new stuff is. It was not that way years ago when all we had was vinyl in most cases.
I do have one older album (Dream of the Blue Turtles-Sting-Original Pressing) that is absolutely dead quite rivals my cd's for the absence of background noise.
I do have one older album (Dream of the Blue Turtles-Sting-Original Pressing) that is absolutely dead quite rivals my cd's for the absence of background noise.