Technology Behind Vinyl Records

Later during the 1980s advances in technology produced the compact disc hailed as vastly superior in quality as well as size.

Technology behind vinyl records. Place a conventional vinyl record on the turntable and the audio is streamed from the record to your sonos airplay or bluetooth wireless speakers. That figure is vinyl s highest since 1988 and it beat out revenue from. At some point companies will respond by offering better digital products intended to compete with the vinyl market. The speaker driver is a second transducer which converts the electrical energy into sound waves.

Some vinyl records are mastered with better dynamics. Steam from the press softens the plastic as the stampers push an impression of the master recording onto it. The answer lies in the difference between analog and digital recordings. Original sound is analog by definition.

Over 100 years after the technology s invention some people still consider vinyl as the only proper way to listen to music but how does vinyl work. Almost overnight cds made the hydraulic presses obsolete. 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. Yes we still make vinyl records.

Stampers are just negative versions of the original recording that will be used to make the actual vinyl records. Technology enhances vinyl records. Take a look at the graph below. They have the technology to do this today and just need a nudge from us to do so.

Lps went the way of the dinosaurs. Huge hydraulic presses pumped out a never ending flow of vinyl records. A stylus is cone shaped and typically made from diamond or other gemstone or hard metal. The stylus fits into the grooves of the record picking up and sending the etched vibrations through the cartridge.

The recording industry association of america reported that vinyl record sales in 2015 exceeded 400 million in the u s. A vinyl record is an analog recording and cds and dvds are digital recordings. Next the stamper is placed in a hydraulic press and vinyl is sandwiched in between.