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Background Noise-In the vinyl or system related?

Hi all,

I've recently started listening to classical on vinyl, and am surprised at the background noise I'm getting on a number of recordings. My tt is a Project Debut w the ortofon omb 5e. I've been listening mostlt to jazz and pop, lots of ecm lp's, and the sound is phenomenal. On the classical records, there just seems to be a higher floor of noise, and I'm unsure whether this is a quality of the vinyl used, or whether the lower volum recordings and greater silences between notes just reveals more noise than I'd noticed before. These are recordings from first-class outfits, like DGG and Philipps, so I'm curious what may be the problem. I haven't cleaned them yet, and many of them have almost no clicks and pops. How much will cleaning w an RCM help? I have a friend who does it for me for a charge, so will eventually take them over there.Are some labels/time periods known for noisy vinyl? Also, the place where I but my used vunyl sometimes cleans them w windex! I've seen them do it, and was wondering how that may affect background noise. Thanks in advance,

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Argh- WINDEX!. Spent most of my audio career in the period when vinyl was king. If there is any commonly available liquid that somebody didn't try to "clean" their records with - I'd be surprised.Almost all of these improvised solutions were a disaster.
If your LP supplier is using windex - find a new source for LP's.Having said that - a lot of old and justifiably famous performances were recorded in the era of non-Dolby A analog tape - these do have noticeable tape hiss in the background. And some are simply recordings that someone loved - played repeatedly and never replaced their needle - they have been ground to pieces. I recently picked up a half dozen London FFrr 's that are even by my standards - unlistenable . The UPS man just dropped off my KAB EV-1 about 10 min. ago - so I will give that a shot - but not expecting much.
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