Technology Behind Vinyl Records

Some vinyl records are mastered with better dynamics.

Technology behind vinyl records.

The stylus fits into the grooves of the record picking up and sending the etched vibrations through the cartridge. Technology enhances vinyl records. A stylus is cone shaped and typically made from diamond or other gemstone or hard metal. Lps went the way of the dinosaurs.

The recording industry association of america reported that vinyl record sales in 2015 exceeded 400 million in the u s. January 25 2017 at 12 06 pm. Place a conventional vinyl record on the turntable and the audio is streamed from the record to your sonos airplay or bluetooth wireless speakers. The answer lies in the difference between analog and digital recordings.

Record technology is a world class record pressing plant with on site acoustech mastering offering lp lacquer cutting and cd pre mastering full service cd audio cd rom and cassette duplication. Stampers are just negative versions of the original recording that will be used to make the actual vinyl records. At some point companies will respond by offering better digital products intended to compete with the vinyl market. The development of vinyl records vinyl records have replaced berliner s rubber discs.

That figure is vinyl s highest since 1988 and it beat out revenue from. Next the stamper is placed in a hydraulic press and vinyl is sandwiched in between. Easy to mass produce master recordings are copied by placing a lacquer on a record cutting machine. Huge hydraulic presses pumped out a never ending flow of vinyl records.

They have the technology to do this today and just need a nudge from us to do so. A vinyl record is an analog recording and cds and dvds are digital recordings. Original sound is analog by definition. Almost overnight cds made the hydraulic presses obsolete.

Steam from the press softens the plastic as the stampers push an impression of the master recording onto it. Take a look at the graph below. Yes we still make vinyl records.