When a record is mastered and/or cut with the best possible sound in mind, it’s sometimes described as a hot cut. “The variable that is proving hardest to predict, given the vinyl revival’s effect on the booming turntable market, is the variances between turntables themselves, and how different mastering can make some records almost unplayable on different turntable models.” It’s a question that affects all parts of the vinyl business: How do you master a record so that it can play both on a $10,000 set up, and a $65, all-in-one Black Friday set up? And how do you account for people who have their turntables improperly set-up? But ultimately, the variable that is proving hardest to predict, given the vinyl revival’s effect on the booming turntable market, is the variances between turntables themselves, and how different mastering can make some records almost unplayable on different turntable models.
#Playon recording quality series#
There are dozens of ways that a record’s quality could be affected, to the point where before needle meets wax, a labyrinthine series of choices and variables have already come into play that can affect the playback in big and little ways. That a “puck” of plastic can be turned into something that plays music via subtleties in ridges is a miraculous thing, all things considered. If you look at Discogs reviews, or Amazon reviews, or, even Vinyl Me, Please reviews of certain new record releases, you’ll sometimes find a common complaint: “This record doesn’t play right on my turntable.
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