SY, the white noise background is the frying potato chips noise I mentioned. Clicks and pops I always guessed were caused by accidental surface scratches, wich are permanent.
Looks like wet-play is a one-way path but did you try destilled water (supposedly just H2O) instead of "domestic water" (what´s it called, BTW)? The record grooves get swamped by the minerals and chemicals of the latter, that stay after the liquid dries out, to be swept by every next wet play which in turn leaves another layer of minerals and chemicals and so on...
Anyway, all the effort around record-caring, it´s all part of the ritual, I guess.
What about the vinyl itself as an obsolete supporting material? Surely with all the advances in technology we couldn´t find a better material to make our new records of? What about Teflon records, since nothing sticks to it (except dust

) ? Better yet, what about Kevlar, or Kapton? I guess if some company mass-produced virtually indestructible, scratch-free records, could claim for Perfect Sound Forever without making audiophiles "protect their noses" (in short of a better vocabulary) from such claims.
I know what you mean. Let´s keep WINING about that
