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A guide to turntable upgrades
Bringing your audio setup to the next level with the best speakers, catridges, matts, preamps, cables and more.
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Vinyl vs. Digital: How Mastering Makes All the Difference
Vinyl has staged a comeback in recent years, defying the digital age's dominance of music consumption. In an era where high-resolution streaming audio reigns supreme, why do some music enthusiasts still prefer to listen to vinyl records? While ownership o
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How Vinyl Records Are Made at Third Man Pressing
Wired visited Jack White's Third Man Pressing in Detroit, Michigan, to learn more about the work that goes into making a vinyl record.
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5 Fun Ways To Upcycle Your Old Vinyl Records As Home Decor - House Digest
DIY projects account for some pretty stellar home design outcomes, especially when using old vinyl records. Here are some fun ideas for upcycling your records.
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Missed That 1969 Jimi Hendrix Show At The Forum? Relive It Now With Never-Before Released Live Recording
In April 1969, the Jimi Hendrix played at the Forum in Inglewood. It was only the third rock concert ever hosted there.
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The Best Vinyl Releases Of August 2022
Beastie Boys, Interpol, Pavement, Madonna, Paul McCartney, and Oasis put out some of the month's finest vinyl releases.
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Why Vinyl Records Are Sticking Around
A Millennial vinyl-enjoyer offers an explanation for the enduring appeal of vinyl records.
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Home Is Where My Record Collection Is
One writer reflects on her vinyl record collection, which has seen her through a marriage, a divorce, and a cross-country move.
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Walmart to host its first online ‘Vinyl Mania Week’
More than 150 titles — ranging from pop, soul and rock to country, folk and jazz — will be available, with new selections popping up each day.
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Tower Records Is Back...With An Online Store
Welcome Back Tower Records! What was your first album??
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Bang & Olufsen revives iconic Beogram 4000c turntable
Bang & Olufsen is resurrecting its iconic Beogram 4000c turntable – Beogram 4000c Recreated Limited Edition – this October.
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Vinyl outsells CDs for the first time since the 1980s
Music fans in the US purchased more vinyl records than CDs in the first half of 2020, marking the first time since the 1980s that CDs were not the top selling physical format.
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Amazon Halts CD and Vinyl Orders Amid Coronavirus Outbreak | Pitchfork
To meet demand for essentials, the retail giant will not restock CDs and LPs until further notice
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“Devastating” Manufacturing Plant Fire Threatens Worldwide Vinyl Record Supply | Pitchfork
Third Man Records’ Ben Blackwell says the destruction of Apollo Masters’ California facility “will present a problem for the vinyl industry worldwide”
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Your Guide To Record Store Day Black Friday 2019 - NYLON
All the best vinyl that will hit your local record shop on Black Friday 2019. Including limited edition Jenny Lewis, Cardi B, and more.
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Quentin Tarantino announces Once Upon a Time in Hollywood soundtrack. And it’s so sweet.
Featuring Deep Purple, Paul Revere, Simon and Garfunkel, and several '60s commercial jingles.Quentin Tarantino announces Once Upon a Time in Hollywood soundtrack Michael Roffman
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Learning to Listen, in a Los Angeles Cafe Built for Vinyl - The New York Times
Japanese-style listening bars, where D.J.’s spin carefully selected records for a hushed audience, are arriving in America. But truly appreciating them can take a little practice.
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Do Remastered Records Actually Sound Better? • Gear Patrol
What is remastering? Do remastered records actually sound better? We asked a master engineer and music journalist to get to the bottom of it.
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LA's Best Record Stores
The revival of vinyl has continued more and more throughout the past decade and LA's local records stores, both new and old alike have gained a reputation for upholding the highest standard of music retail. In anticipation of Record Store Day, we're shari
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The 13 Coolest Record Stores In America
What makes a record store cool? Is its obscure collection of vinyl, a storied history, a coffee shop within the store that brews third wave coffee, or the fact Prince shopped there?
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Look out: Phonographs are 'anachronistic,' per Georgia legislation
Vinyl collectors spin with disbelief
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Photographer Spends 10 Years Tracking Down The Original Locations Of Vinyl Covers
Alex Bartsch is a photographer who is a true reggae fan. He was first introduced to Bob Marley when he was a child, and he got so inspired that he spent 10 years of his life traveling around London searching for original locations of the most famous regga
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How vinyl records are made - INSIDER
Brooklyn Phono is a vinyl record pressing plant in NY. They have 5 printing presses and make 3,000 vinyl per day.
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Are retro Bush turntables worth buying? – Which? News
Which? reviews retro and vintage-looking turntables from Bush, GPO, Ion, Crosley, Lenco and Project to see which have the best sound quality and features, including the retro Bush Classic Turntable and ProJect RPM1.
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Magnificent Obsession: Author Marcus Barnes Explains The Enduring Global Appeal Of Vinyl Records
As the UK celebrates it’s first ever National Album Day author Marcus Barnes explains the enduring cultural phenomenon of vinyl records and releases a guide to the best vinyl emporiums on the planet.
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Vinyl Is Bigger Than We Thought. Much Bigger.
There's lots of talk of a resurgence of vinyl records, but industry sales numbers drastically understate the size of the market because they don't count used vinyl sales. New data tells us that the true vinyl market size is probably twice as large as indu
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This Is the Ideal Vinyl Accessory for Large Record Collections • Gear Patrol
Stndrd is a vinyl accessory company that makes the bespoke organizational dividers. If you have a large vinyl collection, these might be exactly what you need.
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The 10 Best British Invasion Albums To Own On Vinyl!
Once the Beatles made landfall, they brought with them a dozen British bands that remade American rock music.
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The Most Valuable Vinyl Records on Earth | Digital Trends
From rare Beatles originals to one-off test pressings, these are some of the most expensive vinyl records on earth — the kind of discs that make plaid-clad record collectors and average listeners alike green with envy, worth everything from a nice used
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Crosley C6 Turntable Review: Upping the Entry-Level - GeekDad
Crosley's new C6 turntable offers an affordable and flexible upgrade path from its entry-level record players.
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Third Man Records to release Supremes rarities on vinyl for the first time
Featuring little-heard studio material, outtakes and live recordings, the 4xLP box set claims to be among the first Motown records ever actually pressed in Detroit.
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This guy uses old vinyl records to make gorgeous Bluetooth speakers
Industrial engineer Jeff Davis is selling customizable Bluetooth speakers made from old records — you can even submit your own artwork or request an album.
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Led Zeppelin Is Issuing An Unreleased Version Of ‘Rock And Roll’ For Record Store Day
The band is also putting out an alternate rendition of the ’Led Zeppelin III’ track ’Friends’ as well.
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David Bowie's Aladdin Sane reissued on silver vinyl for 45th anniversary
David Bowie's 1973 album Aladdin Sane is being released on limited silver LP, to celebrate its 45th anniversary this year.
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Best Buy is pulling CDs from its stores — and people are freaking out
Best Buy will no longer sell CDs in its stores starting on July 1, and some people are not happy about it.
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How to Clean Old Vinyl Records Using Wood Glue
Palm Springs, California author Eric G. Meeks made a great video where he demonstrates how to clean and repair old vinyl records using wood glue. A friend
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Is Vinyl’s Comeback Here to Stay? | Pitchfork
It was extinct. It was a fad. It was a bubble about to burst. Vinyl has been consigned to the garbage heap of history more than once. Yet it’s still here—and still growing. In 2018, the once-forgotten format feels closer to the mainstream than it has in decades.
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The list of 2017’s top-selling vinyl albums shows the format isn’t just for trendy fans
The Beatles, Ed Sheeran, and “Guardians of the Galaxy” soundtrack were on the list.
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Record sleeves designed by iconic artists explored in new exhibition
Art & Vinyl, a new exhibition looking at artwork created for vinyl over the past 70 years, has opened at the Fraenkel Gallery in San Francisco.
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The most drool-worthy vinyl records of the 2017 - NME
From Ryan Adams' paper dolls to Lana's heart-shaped disc
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A Gift Guide For The Music Lover In Your Life
From headphones, record players, box sets and portable keyboards, we've got you covered on clutch picks for that one music obsessive.
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Discogs meets Match.com on Reverb's new online vinyl marketplace - The Vinyl Factory
“Ensuring that the right buyers and sellers find each other”.Music gear marketplace Reverb.com has launched new online marketplace Reverb LP dedicated to buying and selling vinyl and other physical music.Read more: Do bootlegs matter? What Discogs’.
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The 10 Best Funk Albums To Own On Vinyl
Like all genres, funk was a byproduct of circumstance. Not in the accidental sense of the word, but in the sense that art shapes and conforms to the context of the moment. For James Brown, funk was a divorce from the soul sound—and the band—that made him.
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Every crate digger’s nightmare: Record store has ‘Whipped Cream and Other Delights’ and nothing else | Dangerous M
If there’s one thing all record collectors have in common, it’s the experience of running into Whipped Cream & Other Delights by Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass innumerable times…. like literally, every time you go into a record store you h
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The vinyl jukebox is coming back into production after 25 years!
Crosley is creating the first vinyl jukebox in 25 years.
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Sony is bringing vinyl back, but the truth is it never went away
Sony is restarting production of vinyl records, which reminds us why the format will never die.
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Vinyl gets its groove back: Hunger for vinyl means a chronic shortage of pressing machines | The Economist
FOR young hipsters and middle-aged sentimentalists alike, the resurgence of vinyl is cause for celebration. Since 2010 sales of vinyl records in America have tripled. Britain’s vinyl industry saw its biggest gains for 25 years in 2016.
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Screw Bluetooth. Here’s Why You Should Buy a Record Player | Men’s Health
If you haven’t already wiped off the dust on turntable stored away in the basement, here’s three reasons why it’s time to get spinning.
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The Vinyl Revival: Why Music Lovers Are Going Back - KVRR Local News
FARGO-MOORHEAD -- Many music hobbyists here in the Valley are trading in their newer CDs for older records.
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George Clinton among artist curators for new vinyl subscription service
Experience Vinyl, a new vinyl record subscription service, is launching in April with a series of artist curators, including George Clinton.
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How Do I Convert Vinyl LPs to Hi-Res Audio? | Sound & Vision
Are there any devices I can connect to my turntable to make hi-res transfers of my record collection?
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Retro record: Vinyl sales to top $1bn for first time since the 1980s | The Independent
A retro record could be in sight for the music market. According to a report out Wednesday, annual sales of vinyl records will surpass $1bn (£820m) for the first time since the 1980s this year, fuelled by music lovers’ nostalgia.
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Vinyl records top the popularity charts - CNET
From CNET Magazine: The demand for vinyl records -- from hipster millennials, retro-fans and musicians -- is spinning up faster than ever.
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The 10 best vinyl releases this week (21st November)
Relive the horror of the Upside Down as the first volume of the analogue-heavy soundtrack to Stranger Things, Vol. 1 finally lands on vinyl.
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"Ella Fitzgerald Sings The Cole Porter Songbook" Coming Soon From Analog Spark | Analog Planet
Originally released as a double LP back in 1956, Ella Fitzerald Sings the Cole Porter Song Book was both the first of her eight "songbook" albums and the first release on Norman Granz's then brand new Verve Records (MG V-4001/2).
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People Are Using Britain's New Plastic Money to Play Vinyl Records
The new plastic polymer £5 notes are bonkers. They can’t be crumpled, are extremely hard (though not impossible) to burn, and some wonky stuff happens if you shine a laser through the queen’s face. By far the strangest revelation about this Money Of
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Prince's Earliest Recordings w/ 94 East Remastered & Reissued As 3xLP Vinyl Set Okayplayer
Purple army take heed, a new Prince reissue is slated arrive with a focus on his earliest studio recordings.
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The Rolling Stones collected in mono for massive 16xLP vinyl box set
The Rolling Stones In Mono is due in September. A vast retrospective capturing the first decade o
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Vinyl lives! 10 great record stores for a musical treasure hunt
At a time when smartphone users can access songs in an instant, these stores are still flourishing.
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Ontario to Open North America's Second Largest Pressing Plant | Thump
Precision Record Pressing Inc. is a joint venture between a Canadian music distributor and a Czech vinyl manufacturer.
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Album sales fall in every format except vinyl
Album sales fall in every format except vinyl - The Vinyl Factory - the Home of Vinyl
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Best Record Shops in America
Now that you can buy music anywhere from Urban Outfitters to Whole Foods and whatever the Internet is, old-school record stores have somehow survived changes in preferred format (8-track, CDs, vinyl, gramophones, and beyond)...
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RA News: Vinyl set to have its biggest year in 25 years in US
The vinyl record industry is poised to continue its comeback, with over nine million LPs sold in the first half of 2015, according to Recording Industry Association of America statistics.
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What Playing a Vinyl Record Looks Like Under a Microscope | Mental Floss
Ben Krasnow uses an electron microscope to see a record player in close-up action.
