Noisier Outer Edges?

i find records to be more warped at the edges. you may want to try adjusting antiskate in either direction if you hear noise more in one channel than the other. you may also want to adjust tracking force to be slightly heavier. also check for wear and tear of your cartridge. how old is it/how many hours on it?

I think that your cartridge may not be set up correctly. Records actually cover more territory of vinyl on the outside than on the inside, because the outside is larger. It actually travels faster than the inside. If there are errors in installation..if it is not quite aligned correctly, if the loading is not correct, if the VTA is very off, etc, than the noise will come through "better". You might want to recheck all of that stuff and then have a listen. I think that rechecking would be your best bet to start with.

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.