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Originally Posted by Phil G4SPZ
Somehow the associated surface noise is just part of the experience, and was the type of sound that people would have heard from records, certainly up to the 1950s.
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Up to a point, yes - but it is really surprising just how little crackle is present on an EMI stock shellac pressing which has been kept safe and dry since birth. Nearly all the crackle in fact comes from deterioration caused by mositure, aside of course from the attentions of steel sprags in pickups capable of doing people, never mind records, serious damage, which was par for the course in period.