so a lot of people these days know vinyl records as those giant black discs that
their parents listen to way back before computers and those people are somewhat
right in a cultural sense but if you scratch the surface you'll see that
vinyl records are much more than they appear to be it was all the way back in
1877 when Thomas Edison made the phonograph a device capable of both
recording and playing back Sounds by etching small vibrations into wax then
using a needle that could follow the path of the edge vibration and amplify
it into an audible spectrum and while the photograph was considered too crude
for practical use a decade later Edison
refined the creation by laying the groundwork for the recording industry at
the end of the 1880s based on the same technology the gramophone would play
rotating 5in discs off a spring wound
motor unfortunately these discs couldn't hold up to the sound quality of wax and
were really only good enough for toys experiments so how did these scratchy
little discs become the modern records we know of today well Eldridge R Johnson
whose company later became part of RCA developed a method of etching records
with a much greater level of detail and then later released 10 and 12in versions
of these records these started to Edge out wax cylinders in both quality and
more importantly for this time playback length this started a back and forth war
between Edison and Johnson on playback time which eventually led to the
development of plastic records these were far less fragile and quickly won
over the wax photograph consequently leading to the development of the lp or
longplay record many years later in the 1940s it took a long time partially
because of the great great depression but they did allow for more than 22
minutes of sound per side vinyl however has its disadvantages and while
significantly more durable than wax it would still degrade very slightly with
each playback not to mention having to wind up a record player to keep the
freaking spring motor spinning these problems were solved soon enough
original recordings would later be made into molds that could cast many many
more records from them lowering the issues with record degradation and as
time went on wind up Spring Motors were replaced logically with electric motors
needle started converting vibrations into electrical signals using
electromagnets and the large horn used to amplify sound was replaced with
amplifiers and speakers these advancements brought records into a more
modern era and helped them to survive to the present where they're still being
produced but wait why are they still being made aren't there better digital
media formats available that are way more convenient well while vinyl might
not be as convenient like something like an MP3 it does have its advantages over
digital vinyl has a sound signature that many audio files consider to be warm
engaging and purer than the ones in zeros you find elsewhere vinyl also has
a tendency to produce more natural less harsh sounds reducing fatigue from long
listening sessions and even with the cost of producing a physical record
vinyl is super cheap you can actually find many modern artists releasing
albums on vinyl at both mainstream retailers and independent shops so if
you're an audio Enthusiast you may want to give vinyl a chance it might just
spin your world right round like a record baby round round round round
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