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I believe they indeed do, but for digitizing rare records, they are much better than their physical counterparts. Considering that we can now remove these pops and clicks way better than we did before, it's a worthy thing to have for preservation purposes:

Laser Turntable: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_turntable

Click and Pop Removal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-LvCRzWCpU

Archival optical media is likely much better than any kind of open groove technology.
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