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Re: "Your records sound fine, mine are full of ticks and pops".

Funny thing about ticks and pops. I remember years ago going to a hi fi shop to audition speakers with my sister (she was in the market for some). I brought along a few records to use, and the salesman put one on a cheap record player (I use that term deliberately) which was hooked up to the system containing the speakers. The music came out sounding like I had given my records a dirt shower before putting them back in the jacket. I asked to have them played on a real turntable which he grudgingly did. A lot of the ticks and pops and noise vanished. When I got home afterwards I put the same record on my turntable and it sounded fine - quiet background with very few ticks or pops. Sometimes the equipment was so crappy it actually made records sound WORSE than they really were. And this was in a supposedly reputable shop that sold high end equipment! I wonder if that shop later used that same crap turntable to sell more CD players?


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