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The best place to start to reduce background fizz?

My Question is what are the best methods to reduce the background fizz and crackle on Albums. 99% are brand new Vinyl and sound excellent just when it goes thru silent passages it seems to enhance a bit. So is there a Liquid product to treat the vinyl, better stylus, or phono-preamp to help in this? I am not very experianced in Vinyl so I am sorry if this is not a valid situation to fix. Also, I use an Anti-static brush from audioquest before use which seems to pull all visible dust and contaminents. Thanks
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sean
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Wet cleaning a record with the proper tools can make a world of difference in terms of surface noise and "blackness" of background.

Some cartridges and stylus shapes are more susceptible to groove / surface noise. Changing cartridges or making sure the cartridge that you have is properly set-up might help things out quite a bit.

I'm not speaking from experience here, but i think that you'll get some proponents of "gruv-glide" on this one. Sean
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