Do Vinyl Records Wear Out

Records must always be stored.

Do vinyl records wear out.

I m not sure if the production quality was as good a long time ago as it is now but i can t see it. Yes records will wear. Your stylus will wear out long before the lp does. Any decent cartridge will.

A lot of vinyl naysayers like to harp on the fact that lps can wear out yes the act of playing records does add a tiny amount of noise clicks and pops with each play but my frequently played. If the worn vinyl is clean then no. After 100 it s definitely. Also coloured vinyl wears faster the lighter it is transparent and white ones being the worst.

If you want to wear out your stylus fast dust all your lps with fine concrete dust. But even with a modest system you shouldn t hear much degradation as you play your lp s. Henry blum vinyl record collector. I promise the concrete dust will wear out your stylus tip.

You would have to play it thousands of times for a record to actually wear out though how many thousands depends on groove depth vinyl thickness a 180gm single sided record would probably fare very well. Even faster would be diamond dust. Well that depends greatly on your turntable and stylus. None of these records have ever worn out.

A great advantage of cds is that they don t wear out unless severely mistreated and they don t get noisy or scratchy. The only vinyl that i can t account for is older vinyl. I do not think a worn clean record would wear out a stylus any faster than a new clean vinyl record. The heavier the stylus force the more wear too.

But it s gotta have enough force to track. There is no reason the use of direct metal mastering can have any impact on needle wear. This is one sure fire way to cause warping possible cracking of the vinyl record because of the weight and will inevitably produce scuff marks and ring wear on the album cover marring the artwork.