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The Gakken Easy Record Maker Cuts and Plays Vinyl

Long before we were stuck at home regularly, there was a huge resurgence in the popularity of vinyl. Now that convenience and portability of smartphone music isn’t really something that factors into listening decisions, you…

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Phonocut Lets You Make Your Own Vinyl Records at Home

There’s no denying the fact that we’re in a full vinyl record renaissance at this point. But while you can get thousands of great vinyl albums from both old and new bands these days, the…

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Kozmophone Is a Modern Turntable and Phonograph

At the end of the 1800s, Edison invented the phonograph. Ten years after that—still in the 1800s—Emile Berliner invented the gramophone, which opted for flat discs (aka records) instead of Edison’s cylindrical ones. More than…

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8 Vinyl Record Holders More Stylish Than a Milk Crate

Vinyl record sales are still on the rise. It seems everyone from Kendrick Lamar, to Ed Sheeran and Father John Misty are putting their music to wax because they understand not just the value in…

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This App Lets You Stream an Album by Taking a Picture of It

We’ll often find ourselves flipping through records at a shop and stumbling up on a small collection with killer artwork. Great cover art doesn’t always equal great music, unfortunately. With Record Player, a new app…

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HD Vinyl Will Hit Stores Next Year

Sound quality remains one of the main reasons people turn to vinyl. It sure as hell isn’t convenience, right? Well, as early as next year, that sound quality is getting better. Rebeat Innovation, an Austrian-based…

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20 Albums You Have to Listen to Front to Back

In an age of Spotify playlists and 99-cent downloads, owning an entire album is kinda pointless. Why buy or listen to a full album when you can just grab the highlights, right? That’s sound thinking ……

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Dovetail Vinyl Storage Cabinets

For the first time since 2011, physical albums outsold digital ones. So, yeah, that whole “vinyl is just a hipster trend” thing is just about put to bed. If you’re one of the many who’ve…

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‘Extraordinary Records’ Is an Ode to Great Album Art

The album jacket was the first thing we thought of when the digital era began. Without a hard copy of a record, where would we get the artist-defining visuals? Luckily—and maybe partially because of this—vinyl…

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Essential Vinyl: 25 Albums Every Record Collector Must Own

Saturday was Record Store Day. It’s a day when people wait in lines outside of record shops to purchase brand new vinyl. And if you told us any of that 10 years ago, we would have…

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Wax & Jackson Record Bags

Most record bags make us think of DJs from the club scene in the early aughts. Any time we see one of those jet black bags with a record label’s name splashed across the front,…

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The Best Remaining Record Stores in America

Gentlemen, we are in the midst of a vinyl revolution. You’ve heard that phrase over and over again, but it really is true. People all over the world—young and old—are discovering and rediscovering the warmth…

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Folded Vessel Storage Unit

Designed by Chen Chen & Kai Williams for Brooklyn-based design house Good Thing, Folded Vessel is a multi-purpose storage unit / rack unlike most other options on the market. Folded Vessel is made in Pennsylvania…

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De Jong & Co. Wooden 45 Record Case

If you’re going to spend close to a grand on a case for your seven inch records, you won’t do much better than the De Jong & Co. Wooden 45 Record Case. Designed with three…

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The LUNO EGB2 Holds Your Records and Whiskey Glasses

With a turntable, speakers, amp, 100W subwoofer, three band tone control, Airplay compatibility, storage for 150 records, and four gold-rimmed whiskey glasses, LUNO’s flagship EGB2 record console has literally everything you need to enjoy your…

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