Do Vinyl Records Wear Out

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

Do vinyl records wear out.

If you listen carefully to the cymbals you may notice a reduction in volume after 30 40 plays. 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. Well that depends greatly on your turntable and stylus. After 100 it s definitely.

I do not think a worn clean record would wear out a stylus any faster than a new clean vinyl record. But it s gotta have enough force to track. 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. Yes records will wear.

A great advantage of cds is that they don t wear out unless severely mistreated and they don t get noisy or scratchy. Records must always be stored. If the worn vinyl is clean then no. The only vinyl that i can t account for is older vinyl.

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. Even faster would be diamond dust. Any decent cartridge will.

As for wear induced noise most of that comes from playing records with a worn out or damaged stylus aka needle that s literally gouging the grooves with each play. But even with a modest system you shouldn t hear much degradation as you play your lp s. Also coloured vinyl wears faster the lighter it is transparent and white ones being the worst. The heavier the stylus force the more wear too.

None of these records have ever worn 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. 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.