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All my Vinyl Crackles Wtf?

Oh, the stripe-thing? You're probably right. I was going by the new zipcord I just bought for a lamp...I s'pose just the "either/or" technique will have to suffice.

Dasher
 
Dasher said:
....touch the tone arm to find out if the receiver is plugged in properly.
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Hm, and what would that do/what would I listen for? I've touched my tonearm many times, but never noticed anything special happening. Or are you referring to touching the tonearm while a record is playing? Haven't done that yet.
 
No, the hum will show itself when no music is on, kind of like the guitar amp...touch any metal on that, there's the 60 cycle hum...turn the plug around, it "should" go away...if not, a grounding problem, elsewhere.
Dasher
 
Dasher said:
No, the hum will show itself when no music is on, kind of like the guitar amp...touch any metal on that, there's the 60 cycle hum...turn the plug around, it "should" go away...if not, a grounding problem, elsewhere.
Dasher
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Huh. I have to try that sometime. I never noticed any humming on my guitar amp, but perhaps that was because I never deliberately tried to touch a metal part on it while plugged in.
 
Off subject, but does your guitar amp have 3 promgs? If so, there wouldn't be a grounding issue, inless in the guitar or internal.
It'd show up merely on strings or pickups...
Back to tt, merely by touching tone arm, spindle or any metal piece.
Dasher
 
What are you using for a pre amp? If your amp has poor gain in the phono section, forcing you to turn up the volume a lot when playing vinyl, then you are going to hear every small pop and crackle on every record ever pressed.
 
Dasher said:
Off subject, but does your guitar amp have 3 promgs? If so, there wouldn't be a grounding issue, inless in the guitar or internal.
It'd show up merely on strings or pickups...
Back to tt, merely by touching tone arm, spindle or any metal piece.
Dasher
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Yup, my guitar amp has three prongs, and it's an amp for an acoustic guitar with pickup. Not sure if that makes a difference. The pickup is inside the soundboard, so it's impossible to touch. I'll try touching the tt by its metal parts and listen to any hum. I'm assuming I'll have to crank up the volume quite a bit.
 
I think I misstated myself before...hum before touching, snap n quieter when you touch it...experienced it meself, just now...sorry...
Yes, turn the volume up only until you hear the hum, tapping sumthin' metal. Should hear a difference.

Dasher
 
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I would never allow my tap water anywhere near one of my records. Being on a well, and even with a water softener cranked up as high as possible, it still tests "hard". If any of that dried in the grooves of a record, it would ruin it. For cleaning, I use a spin-clean, distilled water, and the spin-clean cleaning solution. I dry with the spin-clean cloths and wash those separate from all the other laundry (except for the micro-fiber towels I use to wax the cars) with scent free detergent and dried on low heat without any fabric softeners. So far, results have been good. Also noticed a big noise difference depending on which turntable/cartridge I play on. Some are better than others.
 
Apolek said:
I would never allow my tap water anywhere near one of my records. Being on a well, and even with a water softener cranked up as high as possible, it still tests "hard". If any of that dried in the grooves of a record, it would ruin it. For cleaning, I use a spin-clean, distilled water, and the spin-clean cleaning solution. I dry with the spin-clean cloths and wash those separate from all the other laundry (except for the micro-fiber towels I use to wax the cars) with scent free detergent and dried on low heat without any fabric softeners. So far, results have been good. Also noticed a big noise difference depending on which turntable/cartridge I play on. Some are better than others.
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I would be curious to see: which of your cart/table combos yielded the most and least background noise?
 
hi*ball said:
I would be curious to see: which of your cart/table combos yielded the most and least background noise?
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Just finished listening to a c1973 copy of The Who - Quadraphoenia. Same record on four tables:

JVC VL-8 with ADC XLM MKII... no static or hiss at all. 9.5 out of 10 SQ.
Pioneer PL-55X with Stanton 680EE... some crackling, no hiss. Not too bad. 7.5 out of 10 SQ.
Technics SL-B1 with Audio Technica AT-95E... fair amount of crackle and hiss. 5 out of 10 SQ.
Onkyo CP-1140F with Audio-Technica AT92E... Crackle and hiss, but barely noticeable. 8 out of 10 SQ.

Different records produce different results, slightly, but overall SQ is consistent from machine to machine.
 
For even more cleaning record fun, please check the link in my signature.

For the record, (pun intended) I've tried it all. What seems to me to be certain is that vinyl is far tougher than we give it credit for.
 
After going crazy cleaning records, I found that some carts are exceedingly noisy.[/QUOTE]
I gotta remember that. I have a Stanton I'm not happy with...it has a conical stylus...Not a lot of dynamics, pretty flat.

Dasher
 
Yup, noted. The ellyptical gets down into the grooves better. Having 3 working tt's (3 other projects in the works) one I call the rat rod (a Technics SL D20 with broken bits out of plastic plynth, but plays great) that I listen to used records for the first time...that has the Stanton.

Dasher
 
Not sure if you've ruled out static electricity or not but a very good test to see if your records have static is to take a styrofoam packing peanut and break it in half so you have a small piece. Put it on a table and hold your LP above it, if it's attracted to your LP, you have static.

My little destatic gun even provided one in the package as a test to prove that it removed the static charge.
 
Decatur Greg said:
Not sure if you've ruled out static electricity or not but a very good test to see if your records have static is to take a styrofoam packing peanut and break it in half so you have a small piece. Put it on a table and hold your LP above it, if it's attracted to your LP, you have static.

My little destatic gun even provided one in the package as a test to prove that it removed the static charge.
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Cool suggestion. Thanks.
 
Angry Possum said:
After I clean the albums thoroughly. I use a micro fiber cloth to dry and then I let them air dry on a rack for a few hr's or so.
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Touching a clean record with ANY dry cloth will introduce static. After I do my last distilled water rinse I wipe down both sides with a cloth that has a light squirt of 1 part 91% isopropyl alcohol/2 parts distilled water. Then air dry.
 
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