Do Vinyl Records Wear Out

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.

Do vinyl records wear out.

Your stylus will wear out long before the lp does. If you listen carefully to the cymbals you may notice a reduction in volume after 30 40 plays. None of these records have ever worn out. After 100 it s definitely.

Even faster would be diamond dust. Any decent cartridge will. I promise the concrete dust will wear out your stylus tip. If you want to wear out your stylus fast dust all your lps with fine concrete dust.

If the worn vinyl is clean then no. 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. Needle wear is impacted by the vinyl compound itself. 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. Also coloured vinyl wears faster the lighter it is transparent and white ones being the worst. But it s gotta have enough force to track. I do not think a worn clean record would wear out a stylus any faster than a new clean vinyl record.

Henry blum vinyl record collector. But even with a modest system you shouldn t hear much degradation as you play your lp s. 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. The heavier the stylus force the more wear too.

There is no reason the use of direct metal mastering can have any impact on needle wear. Yes records will wear. 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.