Technology Behind Vinyl Records

Lps went the way of the dinosaurs.

Technology behind vinyl records.

That figure is vinyl s highest since 1988 and it beat out revenue from. The speaker driver is a second transducer which converts the electrical energy into sound waves. They have the technology to do this today and just need a nudge from us to do so. Place a conventional vinyl record on the turntable and the audio is streamed from the record to your sonos airplay or bluetooth wireless speakers.

Take a look at the graph below. Easy to mass produce master recordings are copied by placing a lacquer on a record cutting machine. The answer lies in the difference between analog and digital recordings. Yes we still make vinyl records.

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. A stylus is cone shaped and typically made from diamond or other gemstone or hard metal. The development of vinyl records vinyl records have replaced berliner s rubber discs. 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. Huge hydraulic presses pumped out a never ending flow of vinyl records. Steam from the press softens the plastic as the stampers push an impression of the master recording onto it. Some vinyl records are mastered with better dynamics.

At some point companies will respond by offering better digital products intended to compete with the vinyl market. Stampers are just negative versions of the original recording that will be used to make the actual vinyl records. January 25 2017 at 12 06 pm. Original sound is analog by definition.

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. Almost overnight cds made the hydraulic presses obsolete. Next the stamper is placed in a hydraulic press and vinyl is sandwiched in between.