Crackle and hiss on some albums

Noisy new albums is mainly a result of poor quality vinyl material used in pressing. Japan used to be recognized as one using some of the purest vinyl quality, dead silent. Nowadays it's a crapshoot at best. Even so I have an excellent analog system with over 2k vinyl, I no longer buy them mainly because of quality issues. Rather, if I must have a physical version of something I discover while streaming, I buy the CD. The main reason is quality, the secondary one is, with the new vinyl craze, CDs are much more reasonably priced than vinyl. It seems to me that the people now just coming into vinyl will have a huge uphill mountain to climb to build a satisfactory record collection. It's always all about timing. I built most of my vinyl collection in the 60s and 70s.

If you can take equal pleasure in both media, go for it. For me RBCD is elevator Muzak. Good for background music at a party. ( Not talking about hi-Rez digital.)

My CD rig sounds as good as my Qobuz hi res.

Dirty stylus, bad records, too much static, contributes to all what OP is saying. So I clean the stylus, Desat the table and the record, I also used ultrasonic vynil cleaner. Pops are hard to eliminate.

Fwiw, I purchased two new records a couple weeks back and both were cleaned in the same exact manner(as I do with all new albums). One - Rush's "Exit... Stage Left" and Neil Diamond's "Hot August Nights" (a gift for my wife that she was very anxious to hear). H.A.N. sounded like it had sat out for a few days in a drywall removal project! The Rush album was black as night without the "dirty record" layer. An associate that has way more experience with vinyl, without hesitation, asserted that H.A.N. is a bad pressing, nothing more, which at least put my mind at ease that it was nothing that needed to be changed in my cleaning process.