Vinyl foibles

I don't think I hear static on records. Most of my records sound absolutely clean. My VPI Prime Signature 21 with the Fatboy arm is a solid system. VPI has been making solid turntables for many years. When I pull a record off my table and it has static, I do not hear that static while playing the record.

I think in my part of the world, the San Fernando Valley, which is basically a desert, the weather has a lot to do with static. It's not really a huge concern for me except when it drags my cork mat off the metal platter. VPI has a lot of metal in its turntables, including the 20+ pound platter, and I think that spinning metal platter develops static. Not much I can do about that.

Everything depends. Like this time of year humidity will create more static. If you are not using nice inner sleeves then you can create more static. 

For me nothing beats static like water. If you just spray and wipe a static record it will not longer have static. 

All my records, get a hand wash with Groovewasher products, then go into the UC, after a brand new quality sleeve. 

If they happen to get any static when playing, I'll just give them a spray with Groovewasher fluid, brush them clean. No more static. Never really been an issue for me. Have some records that were cleaned years ago, played a few time, and still have no static. I'm sure if I lived in the desert it would be different over the wet PNW.

"It's not really a huge concern for me except when it drags my cork mat off the metal platter."

GASP!  Mat on a VPI-sacrosanct!

No mat VPI user.  Random days of static discharge here, at the beach.

It static is an issue, I’d consider either the DS Audio ION-00 or the CS Port Static Eliminator IME1. Static guns only work for short durations  

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