GRADING: (1) All Near Mint (NM) 45'S will have a SUPERB sound and no background noises. (2) All Near Mint Minus 45's will have a great sound but maybe just a very light hint of a noise somewhere on the vinyl if you are wearing headphones and without, the sounds is a Near Mint  (3) All vinyls that I have graded as a VG + & VG++ will have a very nice listening sound without wearing headphones but with headphones, it will have light to HEAVY background noise.