It did so with some success, though it was a destructive process and is vastly inferior to even the most rudimentary digital solutions. It was a magnetic phono preamplifier with a scratch reduction circuit designed to remove the noise associated with fairly significant scratches on LP records. Garrard’s MR101 Music Recovery Module was released in 1978 towards the end of the brand’s heyday in the consumer market. The SugarCube isn’t the first device intended to de-crackle vinyl in realtime. The SweetVinyl SugarCube aims to fill that gap. Removing vinyl noise in realtime is no easy task however, and to do so in a non destructive way has until now been nigh impossible. Clicks, pops and crackles can mask detail and distract from the music, and there’s no doubting that a clean, quiet disc is always preferable to a noisy one. Noise can however detract from the listening experience, particularly if a record has significant wear or is to be digitised for archival purposes. The sound of a worn record crackling softly as it revolves beneath the stylus can actually be quite pleasant, like the crackle of a fire on a cold summers evening.

We all know that pops, clicks and crackles are all part of the vinyl experience.

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