Microscopic Image Of A Vinyl Record

Microscopic images shared this image on their twitter some months back showing what a record s groove looks like under 1000x magnification.

Microscopic image of a vinyl record.

The following are microscope photos of vinyl lp record surfaces and grooves that illustrate source of poor sounding album. Posted by jason kottke nov 06 2014. I describe how i made a stop motion animation of a phonograph needle in an lp groove using an electron microscope. Record wear and the elliptical stylus.

Here s one of my dirty records. The microscope views show the surface conditions the stylus encounters as it tracks in the record groove. Stylus tracking and test records. This video shows how the stylus moves through the grooves.

A 6 3 megapixel microscope digital camera was used to capture the images. Old forms of stylus. Unfortunately records were both hurt and injured during the making of these microscopic pictures. Microscope world recently took an old vinyl record and put it under a metallurgical microscope to see what the grooves looked like at high magnification.

Scroll down to see examples. Microscopic photo of vinyl record grooves. When you look really closely at record grooves like at 1000x magnification you can see the waveforms of the music itself. This article is in five parts.

I also show electron micrographs of other. The white fibers and specks in the photos are the sources audio problems. Click any label for an enlarged image.