from the zero tone arm weight, where the arm floats horizontally add about 2 - 2.5g, i use 2g but i know some people use up to 3g! also set anti-sk8 about 1 less than the arm weight. the clicks are either dust, old record, scratches, or just bad vinyl or unclean recording. vinyl quality decreases by 10% after just 10 plays

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Originally posted by Drew Ceres Sometimes when I am playing vinyl, I get small cracks/pops coming out of my speakers and I can't figure what it is.

Oh... Good... God...

Of course you get clicks and pops... It's vinyl for god's sake! The needle picks up small variations in the surface/groove of the record, this is how turntables work. Any debris, eg. bits of dust, hair, whatever, are picked up by the needle.

You can only hear this basically when there is silence on the record. You can minimize it by cleaning your records with a velvet and carbon fibre cleaing brush, and perhaps some anti-static spray. Maybe get yourself a stylus cleaning brush as well. But these will only minimize it - it will never go away, it is what makes vinyl vinyl.