The Smell Of Vinyl Records

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The smell of vinyl records. Vintage vinyl and toys store. With vinyl record sales reaching a 25 year high last year it s clear to me there must be more to the vinyl revival than hipsters and nostalgia. I just loved the smell of vinyl in the morning. Vinyl records carried the smell of excitement and possibility.

There was nothing like ripping open the plastic and slowly sliding the large black circle from it s cover. Not only for the simple fact of trying to make things better but for monetary reasons as well. Smell of vinyl records. I know this may be hard to believe but records are not only not worse than cd s they actually sound better.

It s a combination of vanillin and benzaldehyde which smell like vanilla and almonds. How to get rid of a vinyl smell step 1. The same can be said of cassette tapes and even cds. There are clearly pros and cons to any format but in our new multi channel era you don t have to choose between one or the other.

That smell is not unlike the smell of old yellowing books as others have correctly pointed out. Place the vinyl outdoors for several hours or longer so it can off gas a bit. Remove the vinyl product from its packaging if any to allow it to air out. What i remember the most about vinyl records is the smell.

The shiny black with all the grooves placing it on the record player and hearing the pops and crackles of the needle. These are byproducts of the slow breakdown of lignin from the plant matter used to make the paperlike material for the sleve and of course the paper of old books. Records or the love of vinyl. It was the smell of excitement and possibility.