Audacity vs Audition and Amadeus

Indeed - and I edited (and wrote a large part of) this tutorial in the menu:
https://manual.audacityteam.org/man/recording_78_rpm_records.html
This tutorial does give some tips on noise filtering for recordings of 78s

When I digitized my LPs and 45s I used an excellent app called ClickRepair to repair my clicks and pops - it gave excellent results.
See this sticky Forum thread:

Sadly this app is no longer commercially available, but it can be found in various places on the Internet I believe (but take care in so doing).
A similar package that reportedly also produces very good results is GoldWave

The author of that ClickRepair also had another specific package for editing recordings of 78s called DeNoise. I did use that (free trial for a fortnight) to improve the recordings I had on vinyl of old delta blues recordings. These had all clearly been on 78 shellac and later transferred to vinyl (but long before modern digital processing of sound recordings). I found that I had to use different settings for every single track on the multi-LP boxed-set.

Peter.