Slightly Warped Vinyl

It tracks the groove fine and doesn t skip or bounce or anything and sounds great.

Slightly warped vinyl. But it s slightly bugging me that the record is slightly warped if only for aesthetic reasons. How to fix a warped record. For the extremely unreasonable costs of vinyl records these days i would accept no warp whatsoever. If you re in a rush you can quickly fix a warped vinyl record using an oven.

We highly recommend you try the 1 st method to fix warped record before going on an unnecessarily dangerous and risky adventure. I took it back and the replacement we checked in the shop was also warped. I have recently purchased a slightly warped vinyl record. Place some weight onto it approximately 1 kg.

After sending several back cr automatically checked and flattened records before they sent them to me at no extra charge. Then take the glass and record out of the oven and place a heavy object on top of the glass until everything is fully cooled. I can t return and get a new one either as it is a rare pressing of a clash ep and will be difficult to replace. There is a phenomenon called vinyl memory that the audio writers in the 70s and 80s used to write about in the context of warped vinyl.

You have reminded me of when i bought a queen 12 of one vision red vinyl and it was warped. First place the record between 2 sheets of glass and heat it in the oven at 175 degrees fahrenheit for 3 minutes. Even only a couple hundred miles away sometimes i would receive slightly warped records from classic records. So i ended up with a normal one.

Then wait for about 10 minutes. The basis of this if i recall correctly is that a warped vinyl disc will always try to resist efforts to change its shape so essentially you are fighting the record s vinyl memory. Not much more than the original. Whatever you decide to do keep in mind that a slightly warped vinyl record still plays better than one that you accidentally overheated in your supposedly food inside only oven.

If you have a warped record give method 1 a try before you embark on an unnecessary and possibly dangerous quest.