Paulx10111
Established Member
I was suffering terribly with static since reviving my interest with vinyl, I had originally housed my collection in metal cabinets from Ikea and read that metal isnt best suited for vinyl storage, so forked out for wooden ones. An improvement but still my vinyl crackled & popped. I bought a record cleaning machine and a zerostat started cleaning the disks before playing, again an improvement but still there were crackle & pop, upgraded the cartridge,leather mat tried absolutely everything to get rid of the noise, The whole time I had been using a record weight rubber bottom made of some kind of metal, anyway my partner put on a record (uncleaned) and didn't use the weight and im blowed that there was no crackle or pops at all, and for the last week or so I have not used the weight and i have heard hardly any noise at all.