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Turntable isolation is the practice of decoupling a record player from the floor, furniture, and air around it so that…
June 17, 2026
Album art is some of the best graphic design of the last seventy years, and there is a genuine case…
June 17, 2026
A move is the single most dangerous day in a record collection’s life. Years of careful upright storage, climate control,…
June 17, 2026
A warp is the one record problem that genuinely cannot be cleaned away, and it is almost always self-inflicted through…
June 16, 2026
There is a moment every collector hits where the records stop being a collection you know by heart and start…
June 16, 2026
An outer sleeve is the cheapest insurance in this hobby, and it protects the part of a record most people…
June 16, 2026
This is the question that launches a thousand forum arguments, and most of the heat comes from people answering a…
June 15, 2026
The first real shelf I bought for records was a long, handsome open bookcase, and within a year it had…
June 15, 2026
I have lost records to bad storage. Not many, but enough to remember each one: a warped pressing left flat…
June 15, 2026
Used records are the best value in the hobby and the dirtiest thing you will ever put near your stylus.…
June 15, 2026
The sleeve is where cleaning becomes storage, and the stock paper inner that came with your record is quietly working…
June 14, 2026
Static is the reason a record you just cleaned looks dusty again within a minute. Vinyl is an insulator, and…
June 14, 2026