Brand new vinyl - what’s acceptable to you?

Like most responders here, I clean all my records ultrasonically before first play, whether brand new or secondhand.  The original inner sleeves get replaced with anti-static sleeves from Nagaoka.

If a brand-new record has more than two successive clicks from a scratch, I let Presto Classical know about it.  (I buy almost all my new records on-line from Presto in the UK).  They ask for a photograph, and send a new copy free-of-charge while asking me to destroy the old copy after the new one arrives.

Sometimes the damage is highly visible (for example, on Decca records after they introduced glossy inner liners with pictures and ridged joins) but to me, most offensive scratches are invisible.  I just send a photo anyway!

again, proof that most of you need professional help

LOL!  Perhaps the very act of acquiring and playing vinyl records is proof we are off our rockers.  It is certainly eccentric in this day and age.  

@parkergetdean 🙂

Sadly, it doesn’t help. The average counselor is woefully unprepared to deal with audiophilia nervosa.

But hey - it’s also a useful lever for my adult kids or wife. Need to change the subject? Easiest move is for them to ask me anything about music or my system. Instant relief.

Audioinfinite  nervosa.

Sometimes we feed ourselves with repetitive convulsive disorder.

If I have to read one more post about LAST…..

It keeps turning up, repetition repetition like a record with a repeting groove. Beginning to sound very Willy Wonkerish now. The vast amount of LAST lover pushers that keep on posting is like deja vu every time, and is killing me ….. l hope it won’t last!