Technology Behind Vinyl Records

A vinyl record is an analog recording and cds and dvds are digital recordings.

Technology behind vinyl records.

January 25 2017 at 12 06 pm. The recording industry association of america reported that vinyl record sales in 2015 exceeded 400 million in the u s. Almost overnight cds made the hydraulic presses obsolete. Technology enhances 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. Lps went the way of the dinosaurs. Take a look at the graph below. Yes we still make vinyl records.

At some point companies will respond by offering better digital products intended to compete with the vinyl market. Later during the 1980s advances in technology produced the compact disc hailed as vastly superior in quality as well as size. The answer lies in the difference between analog and digital recordings. The stylus fits into the grooves of the record picking up and sending the etched vibrations through the cartridge.

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. They have the technology to do this today and just need a nudge from us to do so. 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. Huge hydraulic presses pumped out a never ending flow of vinyl records.

Next the stamper is placed in a hydraulic press and vinyl is sandwiched in between. Some vinyl records are mastered with better dynamics. A stylus is cone shaped and typically made from diamond or other gemstone or hard metal. Easy to mass produce master recordings are copied by placing a lacquer on a record cutting machine.

Steam from the press softens the plastic as the stampers push an impression of the master recording onto it. That figure is vinyl s highest since 1988 and it beat out revenue from. Stampers are just negative versions of the original recording that will be used to make the actual vinyl records.