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Are Your Records Protected Inside AND Out?
Good outer and inner sleeves protect the cover and prevent sleeve scuff. But sleeve protection ends the moment you drop the stylus. What happens inside the groove — play by...
Cataloguing Your Records vs. Caring for Them — ...
Discogs tells you what you own. VRT tells you what's happening to it. For serious collectors, those are different questions — and only one of them determines whether your records...
How Long Does a Stylus Last? (And How Would You...
Manufacturers quote 500–1,000 hours. But that figure assumes clean records at 33⅓ RPM — conditions most listening sessions don't meet. At 45 RPM, wear runs 35% faster. On uncleaned records,...
Our new Severely Warped Record service
The customer's Physical Graffiti album arrived with record 1 demonstrating a severe ripple warp at its edge and a wave mid side big enough to surf. The disc was unplayable....