Technology Behind Vinyl Records

The speaker driver is a second transducer which converts the electrical energy into sound waves.

Technology behind vinyl records. That figure is vinyl s highest since 1988 and it beat out revenue from. Original sound is analog by definition. Technology enhances vinyl records. Easy to mass produce master recordings are copied by placing a lacquer on a record cutting machine.

The stylus fits into the grooves of the record picking up and sending the etched vibrations through the cartridge. January 25 2017 at 12 06 pm. The answer lies in the difference between analog and digital recordings. Place a conventional vinyl record on the turntable and the audio is streamed from the record to your sonos airplay or bluetooth wireless speakers.

Stampers are just negative versions of the original recording that will be used to make the actual vinyl records. Huge hydraulic presses pumped out a never ending flow of vinyl records. Take a look at the graph below. Next the stamper is placed in a hydraulic press and vinyl is sandwiched in between.

At some point companies will respond by offering better digital products intended to compete with the vinyl market. A stylus is cone shaped and typically made from diamond or other gemstone or hard metal. Almost overnight cds made the hydraulic presses obsolete. A vinyl record is an analog recording and cds and dvds are digital recordings.

Later during the 1980s advances in technology produced the compact disc hailed as vastly superior in quality as well as size. The development of vinyl records vinyl records have replaced berliner s rubber discs. Some vinyl records are mastered with better dynamics. The recording industry association of america reported that vinyl record sales in 2015 exceeded 400 million in the u s.

Steam from the press softens the plastic as the stampers push an impression of the master recording onto it. 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. Lps went the way of the dinosaurs.