Needle-drop on a budget.

Yep. You can keep the raw needle drops and play with the click repair when the kids are in college....
The automatic method works quite well.

 

With ClickRepair I use 10 -12 on all but the worst discs. Use it as sparingly as possible. Also use the 2X & Reverse settings. I have had excellent results.

On an off topic. Does anyone know of a music editor that will open FLAC files and avoid having to use FLAC to convert to Wave Files first?

 

Audacity does this nicely.