those auto crackle fixers will smooth out more than just the crackles... and still miss many of them as well. judging from that sample you're looking at about 10,000+ hours of manually decrackling to get it to sound maybe 20% better than it does in its raw state. The mic upgrade was a good move, looks like you need an upgrade to your recorder (something lossless) and soundcard. Good source recordings don't need audio post, you'll always feel dissatisfied and every year that goes by you'll look back on your previous work and say to yourself "I could do it better now". A raw recording is pure, it is what it is.
the best method for fixing these clicks/crackles that I know of uses Adobe Audition. see here (scroll down)
http://www.thetradersden.org/forums/...read.php?t=957
with soundforge you could try re-drawing the wav using the pencil tool but the process is much slower.
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