We’ve always been big fans of music streaming apps like Spotify, Apple Music, Pandora and the like, with nowhere to go because of the pandemic, we’ve really gotten back into our vinyl records. Even with…
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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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HRDL The Vinyl Table
Audiophiles dedicated to vinyl love it for varied reasons. The purity of the sound, the nostalgia, the absence of perfect digital distillation, and the community of vinyl subculture are just a few. Now vinyl devotees…
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Symbol Unison Record Stand
Symbol Audio has always impressed us with their handcrafted record cabinets and storage solutions that fit perfectly into any mid century modern setup. Their latest, the Unison Record Stand, pulls out all the stops to…
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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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Open 45 Credenza
When it comes to vinyl storage, you have a few different options once you’ve graduated from the milk crate. If your collection is huge, you probably go with something like an IKEA Kallax setup because…
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HRDL Vinyl Table
Vinyl storage has come a long way since the milk crate days of yesteryear. These days, vinyl record storage is as much about listening to music as it is about looking at album covers, as…
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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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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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Spinbox is a DIY Record Player
Have you ever wanted to build a turntable? Spinbox is a DIY Record Player unlike anything else on the market. The box that will ultimately become your Spinbox turntable comes with everything you need to…