Groove Wear Vinyl

Mastering and the prevention or promotion of groove wear.

Groove wear vinyl.

These so called flats eventually represent critical wear as described in detail over 40 years ago by weiler schwartz of cbs and shure incorporated. Contrary to popular belief this explains how it is possible to repair damaged scratched vinyl records or at least greatly reduce the entity of the damage. The grooves of untreated records contain manufacturing residue vinyl fragments stylus dust oils saliva embedded and hardened dust smoke etc. Just make sure the stylus tracking force is set to the cartridge manufacturer s recommendation.

Vinyl mastering engineers have a difficult job. It sort of implies that vestax is a shit brand and their handy trax are especially awful but their line of direct drive tables from the late 90s to mid 2000s maybe later are really top notch tables and were used in place technic 1200s in a lot of clubs for a period of time. Independent analysis has shown that playing properly cleaned records reduces groove and stylus wear significantly. Groove wear caused by ancient heavy tracking arms and or worn stylus especially towards the centre of the record.

The impact on your listening experience and record and stylus longevity is profound. This is really splitting hairs but under vestax you put particularly their handy trax. Here is my take. Please login or login or.

In the heyday of high fidelity vinyl playback many studios played it safe cutting their records at a. Some collectors are more averse to groove wear than scratches. They are expected to cut a record with great signal to noise ratio but at the same time the record should not be prone to mistracking. Do vinyl lps wear.

Any decent cartridge will play records without damaging the groove. Its probably the wording. Regardless of its shape as a stylus tip wears on the sides of a vinyl groove it facets the diamond to create a worn edge or flat area on the sides of the tip.