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    Quote Originally Posted by walpurgis View Post
    Care to explain?
    Dirt wil add noise but no distortion. Sibilance is a distortion of a recorded sound either at the recording take or in the process of the "carving" of the master template or in the "plastic" material used to press the record. And off course, as said before by a faulty set-up of your cartridge and/or tonearm.
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