Brand New Vinyl Warped

Let s run through some checks to see if the vinyl might be at fault.

Brand new vinyl warped.

In many circumstances you should be able to fix this one yourself by wet cleaning the vinyl either by hand or using a record cleaning machine. This guide to flattening warped vinyl records will hopefully get you on track or at the very least prevent you from irreparably damaging your records. Same record label and pressing plant 5 of 6 had issues of some sort. You probably wouldn t be reading about how to fix this problem if it wasn t already an issue but general prevention is a good place to begin.

Welcome to barnes noble s vinyl store. As mentioned above a brand new vinyl record is less often the culprit of playback skipping though it is not unheard of. It is common for brand new lp s new pressings that they are nearly always. But you won t like the answer.

In many cases new records come contaminated. I received a promo box today. The second is pretty bad and the cartridge is in a constant up and down motion. I seem to remember in the 80s they were like wet paper and warped easily.

If you re looking for where to buy records you ve come to the right place. Production mistakes though exceedingly rare can cause a vinyl record to become warped. I just picked up opeth s my arms your hearse lp on blue vinyl and both of the records are warped the first one is very minor but i can see the cartridge bump up a little bit when it rotates. Warped already with lot of surface noise not 100 centered hole especially the mfsl pressings always suffer from this and i won t buy them anymore.

In fact as a matter of good practice i wet clean all my new vinyl before the first play. We ve compiled a short video and numbered each record 1 5 so you can decide what you consider. This is my experience in the netherlands. Pick up an early vinyl record from the 50s and they re pleasingly like lead weights.

All these new fangled special edition 180gm records you new fangled kids spend far too much on used to be the norm. Should i return the.