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Some pops and clicks go with vinyl (longish)

I have about 10,000 LP's at this point I have cleaned and played about 3,000 of that 3,000 I would say about 75% are pretty free of pops and clicks (maybe one per LP), the rest have maybe 2 to 4 pops and clicks per side a few have maybe 1 or 2 pops per track. From my point of view some pops and clicks go with the experience and I would rather listen to the album then cleaning it 100 times, whipping up some kind of miracle cleaner or spreading glue all over the album.

That said, pops and clicks don't really bug me to much even with classical music, I can tune them out always have been able since I was a kid and played my vinyl on el cheapo turntables with ceramic cartridge with the pennies strapped on top. The reason I sold most of my albums from my youth was not the lack of noise with CD's, but I guess the higher dynamic range of CD's (i.e. they were louder) and I bought into the whole Perfect Sound Forever thing.

Over the last few years I have been able to get a pretty good vinyl rig and purchase lot's of vinyl. I listen mostly to vinyl about 95% of the time. I still have about 3,000 CD's but am in the process of selling many of them off as I replace them with the vinyl versions. What sounds better CD or Vinyl I can't answer both can sound amazingly good and bad. As I get older and my eyes are going bad I like the larger format of vinyl, I feel and I know this sounds really stupid, but I feel like I bond with vinyl in a way that I can't with a CD. The act of spinning the record, turning over the record, everything else that goes along with playing vinyl is a much more physical act then playing a CD, maybe more like going to a concert, I really don't know.

Jeff


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