When you look really closely at record grooves like at 1000x magnification you can see the waveforms of the music itself.
Microscopic image of a vinyl record.
Microscope world recently took an old vinyl record and put it under a metallurgical microscope to see what the grooves looked like at high magnification.
This video shows how the stylus moves through the grooves.
Here s one of my dirty records.
But i d already copied them to my computer using what else dak s incomparable lp to mp3 system.
Record wear and the elliptical stylus.
Click any label for an enlarged image.
This first vinyl record image was captured at 100x magnification using reflected light through the objective lens.
Microscopic images shared this image on their twitter some months back showing what a record s groove looks like under 1000x magnification.
Stylus tracking and test records.
The white fibers and specks in the photos are the sources audio problems.
I describe how i made a stop motion animation of a phonograph needle in an lp groove using an electron microscope.
Microscopic photo of vinyl record grooves.
Unfortunately records were both hurt and injured during the making of these microscopic pictures.
The following are microscope photos of vinyl lp record surfaces and grooves that illustrate source of poor sounding album.
Scroll down to see examples.
The appearance of the grooves.
Old forms of stylus.
I also show electron micrographs of other.
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