@cleeds Anything that would be audiophile grade, just pulled D2D out of the air at random. It's just that you notice crud more on superior recordings. Chances are good if you have a better than average deck the stylus is probably much smaller than the previous owner was using so it reaches much deeper in the groove where the old crud is and it gets raked up. This isn't every used LP but it does happen time to time.
Second hand vinyl surface damage.
Most analogue enthusiasts enjoy perusing and buying second hand vinyl. I was doing so this week, and picked out four LP`s that I wanted to add to my collection, but only after carefully inspecting their surfaces. Naturally a delicate item such as an LP undergoes `ageing`, a thirty plus year old desirable will not have escaped some surface damage. There are occasionally long and short deeper scratches, and more often clusters of light hairline scratches. If you want it you will have to put up with the result of said surface damage, so what do members consider damage enough to regretfully put the LP back on the shelf?
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If you want clean records, highly recommend Walker Enzyme. Tom Port recommended it to me, its all they use at Better Records, and it is clearly obviously easily superior to the Disc Doctor system I was using before. I don't use his expensive final rinse water, just my own filtered, and vacuum the final rinses off with my VPI, and still it is awesome. |
@cleeds Just found this. Author does a decent job of explainig record surfaces and cleaning issues. Worth a look. https://londonjazzcollector.wordpress.com/for-audiophiles/record-cleaning/ |
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