Cure all for scratchy records!

[Ldg]

At risk of demonstrating nerdness, there's a reason the noise sounds like bacon frying, fires crackling etc etc. It's governed by the same natural law 'flicker law'. Look it up whilst cooking a bacon butty on an open fire, watching the flame, listening to a crackly album, watching a star twinkle etc etc

[megatrends]

At risk of demonstrating nerdness, there's a reason the noise sounds like bacon frying, fires crackling etc etc. It's governed by the same natural law 'flicker law'. Look it up whilst cooking a bacon butty on an open fire, watching the flame, listening to a crackly album, watching a star twinkle etc etc

Records so badly damaged that they crackle and pop very badly are just intolerable to listen to. I just cannot do it.

Virtually all of my records are in great shape still from the 70s until now. I attribute that mostly to stylus changes and using the old fashioned Discwasher which kept very harmful dust out of the grooves.

I never could understand how one can have more than a very small handful of records with scratches all over them. I mean accidents happen, you drop a record and it hits the corner of the turntable etc. Some people have records that look like they were used for skipping off the floor like a frisbee.

I have a Best Of Deep Purple lp that I own and acquired for free recently just because the track Black Night is the only one not screwed up. When that track is done the record comes off the turntable.

Not good for my ears and not good for the stylus.

[bauzace50]

Well, accidents DO happen on records. When I was about four years old, my brother and I decided to have FUN with Dad's 78 rpm records. We stomped on them to watch them crack into fun pieces! It was fun until Dad got home from work . (78s are brittle. They break into unpredictable shapes when bent or stomped upon).

[megatrends]

Well, accidents DO happen on records. When I was about four years old, my brother and I decided to have FUN with Dad's 78 rpm records. We stomped on them to watch them crack into fun pieces! It was fun until Dad got home from work . (78s are brittle. They break into unpredictable shapes when bent or stomped upon).

Is your ass still scarred from his belt lol.


I used to break them also ... they fly very well I must say actually. We would zing them into cement walls. Quite a good show.