[ProtectOurFreedom]

Me, too. Every play started with me carefully pulling the LP from the inner jacket with care, touching the edges only, wiping with the Disc Washer, gently putting the arm down, and closing the turntable cover as quickly as possible. I had a Thorens turntable and excellent arm and cartridges. But no matter how hard you tried, you still got pops and clicks.

I’m very happy with my entire music collection in MP3 on my 128 GB iPhone 6 Plus. Don’t miss the foregoing silly ritual AT ALL.

[pa_dweller]

I had one of those and went to a Watts Dust Bug. It did a very nice job. The tedium of the ritual was greatly alleviated by recording LPs onto cassette. Most of my LPs have only been played one or two times.