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the tonearm hit the runout on the album we're listening to and I realised with a start that vinyl must inherently have "lower" audio quality (not that I have ever been able to tell) towards the end of each side and yep, "inner-groove distortion" is a thing, there are simply fewer millimetres per second of groove as you approach the centre, given they operate at a constant angular velocity. Akin to running magnetic tape at a lower speed.

I'd never really thought about it before. clearly it doesn't matter that much outside of audiophile placebo effects given that 7 inch records exist and sound fine, but still

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now imagining a world where computerisation of record players in the 80s and technology from LaserDiscs resulted in constant linear velocity records proliferating and now you have another toggle switch

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plumpan
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Important enough that some DJ oriented dance singles will only use the first 2/3rds of the groove area instead of making use of the extra space, for a 5-6 minute track running at 45 on a 12" record. (This confused me greatly when I first learned about it)

But really, vinyl is always going to sound a bit shit here and there. That's part of the "fun".

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I think the reason they're cut so wide is to just make them louder, if you don't have any 90s dance singles (or new ones honestly), it's fun to back to back them with an LP or even EP, the difference in volume is huge.

I'm pretty sure making the cut louder (physically deeper/larger?) makes the signal to noise ratio better. Which would be "resolution" in a way, but I think that was more about it not sounding like crap in the club than helping the DJ.

I do have a fair number of dance records but I don't actually mix with them, so citation needed on all that. I rip mine to digital and mix in traktor because I like my features.

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modulusshift
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7 inch records also spin faster tho, making up that difference a little.

Apparently Noel Pemberton Billing in the early 1920s developed a speed regulator for record players that would allow World Records to release constant linear velocity records. Doesn't seem to have gone anywhere though, which honestly makes sense, it sounds much more mechanically complicated.

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