The Unbreakable Vinyl Record Album
Vinyl records were introduced and marketed as the unbreakable record, unlike its shellac counterpart of days gone by, that would break at the drop of a hat and becomes more brittle over time.
Vinyl records are made from polyvinyl chloride (PVC) which has been proven to be a most stable material for sound recording. As a practical matter, vinyl records provide excellent sound quality when treated with care.
Vinyl Records were the music source of choice for radio stations for decades, and the switch to digital music libraries by radio stations has not produced a noticeable improvement in sound quality...,as a note most radio stations severely reduce the dynamic range of their broadcasts and the allowed frequency bandwidth for a radio station is less than the bandwidth on a well-made record. Casual ears cannot detect a difference in quality between a CD and a clean new LP.
Vinyl records are made from polyvinyl chloride (PVC) which has been proven to be a most stable material for sound recording. As a practical matter, vinyl records provide excellent sound quality when treated with care.
Vinyl Records were the music source of choice for radio stations for decades, and the switch to digital music libraries by radio stations has not produced a noticeable improvement in sound quality...,as a note most radio stations severely reduce the dynamic range of their broadcasts and the allowed frequency bandwidth for a radio station is less than the bandwidth on a well-made record. Casual ears cannot detect a difference in quality between a CD and a clean new LP.
Sound Quality of the Vinyl Record
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Most vinyl records are pressed on recycled vinyl. The sound quality and durability of vinyl records is highly dependent on the quality of the vinyl. During the early 1970s, as a cost-cutting move towards use of lightweight, flexible vinyl pressings, much of the industry adopted a technique of reducing the thickness and quality of vinyl used in mass-market manufacturing, marketed by RCA Victor as the "Dynaflex" (125 g) process, considered inferior by most record collectors.New "virgin" or "heavy" (180-220 g) vinyl is commonly used for modern "audiophile" vinyl releases in all generes. Many collectors prefer to have 180 gram vinyl albums, and they have been reported to have a better sound than normal vinyl. These albums tend to withstand the deformation caused by normal play better than regular vinyl. 180 gram vinyl is more expensive to produce and requires higher-quality manufacturing processes than regular vinyl.
Since most vinyl records are made from recycled plastics, impurities can be accumulated in the record, causing a brand new album to have audio artifacts like clicks and pops. Virgin vinyl however, means that the album is not made from recycled plastics, and will theoretically be devoid of these impurities. In practice, this depends on the manufacturer's quality control.
Vinyl Records Had Their Down Sides
A Side - B Side ......., Down Side??
Vinyl records do not break easily, but thesoft material is easily scratched and vinyl readily acquires a static charge, attracting dust that is difficult to remove completely.
Dust and scratches cause audio clicks and pops. In extreme cases, they can cause the needle to skip over a series of grooves, or worse yet, cause the needle to skip backwards, creating a "locked groove" that repeats the same 1.8 seconds of track over and over. Locked grooves were not uncommon and were even heard occasionally in broadcasts.
Vinyl records can be warped by heat, improper storage, or manufacturing defects such as excessively tight plastic shrink-wrap on the album cover. A small degree of warp was common, and allowing for it was part of the art of turntable and tonearm design. A once per revolution pitch variation could result from a warp, or from a spindle hole that was not precisely centered.
Vinyl records will degrade chemically when exposed to ultraviolet light or to heat. Humidity does not affect the PVC itself, but will affect the packaging it is stored in. PVC is also resistant to fungal growth.
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A.K.A. -- Phonograph Records -- Record Albums - LPs
Terms and Aliases of the Vinyl Record Album
The flat recorded disc has gone throughmany changes over time and generations
and as a result has been referred to by several aliases. The terms LP and EP are acronyms for Long Play and Extended Play where 33's, 45's and 78's these designations refer to the records rotational speeds in revolutions per minute. Along with different rotational speeds records were made in different sizes 7" 10" 12". Typically a 7" record would be a 45 rpm speed, a 10" would be either 33 or 78 rpm and a 12"
would be 33 rpm. Of coarse there are exceptions to every rule. Records have been made of polyvinyl chloride (PVC) since about 1949, and as such may be referred to as a "vinyl records" or just simply "vinyl". The term "record album" originally referred to a set of 10" 78's coupled together and housed in a "photo album" style booklet, usually containing art work on the front side and on the reverse, information about the recordings, the result a nickname the "phonograph record album" or "record album" which has stuck. In fact for decades many people referred to them as "records" These are the more popular aliases for the "vinyl records", there are certainly hundreds more terms that hipsters and disc jocks alike have used over the life and time of the phonograph record.
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Lathe Cut Micro-Grooves and the Mother Stamper
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While most vinyl records are pressed from metal discs known as 'stampers', the original disc is
lathe cut. The lathe cuts the long spiral
microgroove into a aluminum disc which has been coated with a soft lacquer.
This lacquer disc is then electroplated with nickel
to form a negative known as a 'master' disc, which has a protrusion rather than a groove. The lacquer disc is destroyed when the nickel impression is separated.
This master disc is then electroplated with nickel to form a a positive disc known as a 'mother'. Many mothers can be grown from a single master before the master deteriorates beyond use.
In their own turn the mothers are nickel plated to produce more negative discs known as 'stampers'. Again a single mother can grow many stampers before they deteriorate beyond use.
It is these stampers that are then used to mold the final vinyl discs. In this way several million vinyl discs can be produced from a single lacquer original.
For production of discs where a relatively small quantity is required, the first nickel negative grown from the lacquer original is used directly as a stamper. Production by this latter process known as the 'half process' is limited to a few hundred vinyl discs.
lathe cut. The lathe cuts the long spiral
microgroove into a aluminum disc which has been coated with a soft lacquer.
This lacquer disc is then electroplated with nickel
to form a negative known as a 'master' disc, which has a protrusion rather than a groove. The lacquer disc is destroyed when the nickel impression is separated.
This master disc is then electroplated with nickel to form a a positive disc known as a 'mother'. Many mothers can be grown from a single master before the master deteriorates beyond use.
In their own turn the mothers are nickel plated to produce more negative discs known as 'stampers'. Again a single mother can grow many stampers before they deteriorate beyond use.
It is these stampers that are then used to mold the final vinyl discs. In this way several million vinyl discs can be produced from a single lacquer original.
For production of discs where a relatively small quantity is required, the first nickel negative grown from the lacquer original is used directly as a stamper. Production by this latter process known as the 'half process' is limited to a few hundred vinyl discs.
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Vinyl Record Care and Maintenance
Protect Your Valuable Phonograph Records
Vinyl Record Care and MaintenanceCleanliness is absolutely mandatory if the optimum sound capability of the vinyl record is to be realized. A clean record will not only sound better, but last longer. It has long been proven that repeated playing of dirty phonograph records can cause permanent damage to the vinyl. Preservation of your valuable or irreplaceable records requires careful cleaning. Not to mention that stylus wear is greatly accelerated by playing dirty records, and with high price of cartridges these days, playing dirty records can lead to significant and unneeded expense.
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Vinyl Record Grading - Industry Standard
Goldmine Grading System
Vinyl Record Grading -Standard Goldmine Grading System
Fox Music Company uses the grading system first developed by Goldmine Records. Virtually all methods currently in use for the grading of records, is based in some way, shape, or form, on this system. Rather than offer some variation of the original system first developed by Goldmine, Fox Music Company has created a lens to display the Goldmine record grading method in it's entirety.
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This is the pecking order as I see it. (And I'm 60) ... GOD> The universe> The church> Man> Reel to reel tape> Vinyl LP> 426 Hemi 'Cuda> Food> Rats & creeping things> Children> Digital anything> Death> Woman. In that order of importance!
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I'm 59, been playing records since I was 12. Been collecting since I was 20 & recording them since. Today I have over 3 thousand LP's & hundreds of 2 & 4 track tapes. Over time and to preserve the best of the lot, I've transferred the majority of them to reel to reel tape which remains the highest quality analog to date. (I do this because with all due respect to the LP, they will wear & in turn distort as time & playing pass). Negatives are that the LP has a limited dynamic range of about 50DB & the cartridge/ needle quality. Today, a semi-pro used Tascam, Crown, Sony, Revox, Akai, reel to reel tape deck using today's latest open reel tape formulations by ATR Magnetics, Quantegy, BASF etc, can record to 6DB or higher (Pinning the VU meters if you want) without overloading the tape. With 250 nanometers per milibar @ 0VU as a standard recording level you can record with NO hiss or distortion to speak of, making open reel tape THEE best means of preserving music or recording live!
Posted January 09, 2009
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Mrs. Rios wrote
This has been a very helpful website. I am a history teacher that still plays 45s in class of all types of genre and the students call them CDs. lol. They are always curious and wondered how they were made. This site was a hit with the students. Thanks a million Swedish fish.
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This has been a very helpful website. I am a history teacher that still plays 45s in class of all types of genre and the students call them CDs. lol. They are always curious and wondered how they were made. This site was a hit with the students. Thanks a million Swedish fish.
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Fox Music Company, is located Downtown Watertown on the corner of Main Street and First Street. The record store is in the historic "Merchants National Bank Building" Our entrance is on First Street at the top of the wheel chair ramp.
The City of Watertown is located in the South Eastern portion of Wisconsin and is centered where the counties of Dodge and Jefferson meet. The North side of Watertown sits in Dodge County, the South side in Jefferson County. In the East-West direction we are midway between Madison and Milwaukee, Wisconsin.
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Until now, no available record cleaning system was accepted by professionals and enthusiasts alike as producing the desired result -- clean records.
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