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Microscopic image of a vinyl record.
Unfortunately records were both hurt and injured during the making of these microscopic pictures.
Scroll down to see examples.
Microscopic images shared this image on their twitter some months back showing what a record s groove looks like under 1000x magnification.
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.
This article is in five parts.
I describe how i made a stop motion animation of a phonograph needle in an lp groove using an electron microscope.
Posted by jason kottke nov 06 2014.
Here s one of my dirty records.
Stylus tracking and test records.
When you look really closely at record grooves like at 1000x magnification you can see the waveforms of the music itself.
Old forms of stylus.
The white fibers and specks in the photos are the sources audio problems.
The appearance of the grooves.
Microscopic photo of vinyl record grooves.
The following are microscope photos of vinyl lp record surfaces and grooves that illustrate source of poor sounding album.
This video shows how the stylus moves through the grooves.
The microscope views show the surface conditions the stylus encounters as it tracks in the record groove.
A 6 3 megapixel microscope digital camera was used to capture the images.
This first vinyl record image was captured at 100x magnification using reflected light through the objective lens.