Hum Interesting learned something new today, I do know in college couple classmates came over saw my linear tracking turntable and laughed, we had a shootout CD verses LP the Lp better fidelity veses CD more dynamic range and stereo separation which sounds unnatural compared to LP
I am new to collecting vinyl records. Where can I go to start to learn how to buy and sale, what records are best and how to care for them besides your video's of course. :-)
Hello Sherrie, it sounds like you that this is an investing rather than listening approach. I can only offer that if you seek in a collection is based on reselling rather than pleasure that you tactic should be to buy low and sell high. Think like a stock broker not a music lover, learn what has high resale value and seek out low cost buying opportunities. As the vinyl value proposition is supported by a large community of vendors I would start there. My experiences are limited to finding well recorded discs and I do not resell them when found, I am the wrong person to ask investment advice from. Good luck with your endeavor. Barry
Hi Marc, well basically maybe - heat will make vinyl (a plastic) soft to the point of being a liquid again. The warpage occurs when there is temperature difference in different parts of the vinyl disk. Vinyl does slightly expand when warm creating internal stresses in the disk. Steam is hot (typically) so if part of a disc gets hot there will be the chance of warping, but if the disc is inside a jacket the heat will will probably be very much the same across the disc (not much different). Consider that the record will be held flat so that if part does get hot it will be physically constrained until the disc comes back to a equal temperature all over. Given a bunch of 'if's heat it can be the agent of change for a warp, so can bending the disc for a long time. So not always an easy answer, like most of life, sometimes yes, sometimes no. Remember that the record is pressed from hot vinyl in the first place, if it cool ed homogeneously then it will be flat. Can re-heating a record the cooling it evenly help? Yes, it will let the internal stresses reach equality reducing or eliminating the source of the warping . Back to the question, is steam the agent of change, no heat is and steam is hot.
Miss you Barry
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Interesting learned something new today, I do know in college couple classmates came over saw my linear tracking turntable and laughed, we had a shootout CD verses LP the Lp better fidelity veses CD more dynamic range and stereo separation which sounds unnatural compared to LP
I am new to collecting vinyl records. Where can I go to start to learn how to buy and sale, what records are best and how to care for them besides your video's of course. :-)
Hello Sherrie, it sounds like you that this is an investing rather than listening approach. I can only offer that if you seek in a collection is based on reselling rather than pleasure that you tactic should be to buy low and sell high. Think like a stock broker not a music lover, learn what has high resale value and seek out low cost buying opportunities. As the vinyl value proposition is supported by a large community of vendors I would start there. My experiences are limited to finding well recorded discs and I do not resell them when found, I am the wrong person to ask investment advice from.
Good luck with your endeavor. Barry
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Isnt he actually talking about a reissue or remastered, and not a repress???
hi should I store my records away from my stereo system to prevent static
can steam warp vinyl
Hi Marc, well basically maybe - heat will make vinyl (a plastic) soft to the point of being a liquid again. The warpage occurs when there is temperature difference in different parts of the vinyl disk.
Vinyl does slightly expand when warm creating internal stresses in the disk. Steam is hot (typically) so if part of a disc gets hot there will be the chance of warping, but if the disc is inside a jacket the heat will will probably be very much the same across the disc (not much different). Consider that the record will be held flat so that if part does get hot it will be physically constrained until the disc comes back to a equal temperature all over.
Given a bunch of 'if's heat it can be the agent of change for a warp, so can bending the disc for a long time.
So not always an easy answer, like most of life, sometimes yes, sometimes no. Remember that the record is pressed from hot vinyl in the first place, if it cool ed homogeneously then it will be flat.
Can re-heating a record the cooling it evenly help? Yes, it will let the internal stresses reach equality reducing or eliminating the source of the warping .
Back to the question, is steam the agent of change, no heat is and steam is hot.