Dealing with Static on LP palyback


Anyone have any suggestions on how to deal with static build up on LPs as I play them?   Just playing one side is something enough to cause an arc when I pick up the album.  Most of the time I hear tiny, consistent crackles that sound just like static.

All the things I tried that claim to reduce static does not.  I must have four record mats and a camel hair tone arm brush, all of which claim to reduce static but have no effect that I can see.

spatialking

@antinn 

"As far as micron particles in the groove, and the stylus with a high static pressure (stylus vertical tracking force divided by stylus surface area) causing the dust particle to be embedded in the groove, that is a very weak theory.  The basic composition of the particle can be of almost any composition with the very worst be being silica (glass) type (Sahara sand), but most will just be pulverized under the pressure, if not just blown up like when you walk through very dry snow.  Also, large particles are subject to kinetic energy from the impact with the stylus, and the basic equation is mass times velocity squared, so a large enough particle at the outer groove will cause a greater pop (where the velocity is 50 cm/s) than at the inner groove (25-cm/s)."

These are the most salient remarks of any passage posted in this thread since I’ve been following it.

Learning new term like "triboelectric series" and beating it like a dead horse as has been done here to rationalize your inaccurate assumptions, really isn’t very convincing. @mahgister went on a jag like this over the term "anthropomorphization" in his post in another thread like he invented the word, repeatedly, in every possible context that he thought was valid. To me it doesn’t make him seem any smarter.

You’re basically rambling on about a problem that doesn’t even really exist at least in the context you’re claiming it is. Antin’s statement above actually shines some light on the issue!

To quote what posted earlier upthread -

"The crackling you hear during playback is the result of surface contamination and groove damage due to improper handling or improper stylus maintenance or tonearm setup. The inevitable electrical charges that accumulate on the records surface do not affect the sound in any way."

 "When the stylus encounters foreign matter as the record plays it pushes it out of the way."

@richardbrand 

"Any recommendations for a salon that can do a micro-line fingernail profile?"

Yawn!

@faustuss 

You managed to authoritatively quote your own first post in this thread, in which you state that static (electrical charges that accumulate on the record's surface) does not affect the sound in any way.

"The crackling you hear during playback is the result of surface contamination and groove damage due to improper handling or improper stylus maintenance or tonearm setup. The inevitable electrical charges that accumulate on the records surface do not affect the sound in any way."

Does anybody here really believe that?

 

Spatial, that fan mentioned by Cliff more than likely generates ozone while also generating ions. Probably a tiny amount but I’d be judicious in using it.

The use of a word do not makes us smarter... The context where a word is used and what is the intention behind this word aim at a point (smart or not ) ...

Your post convey no critic of my use of the word in his context and is then a vulgar "ad hominem" attack out of his context thread ...

Attack my claim my post  in their context  and original thread not here, as a man with a brain not a vexed  child posting insinuation about someone at other place...

Is it clear ? 

@mahgister went on a jag like this over the term "anthropomorphization" in his post in another thread like he invented the word, repeatedly, in every possible context that he thought was valid. To me it doesn’t make him seem any smarter.