Microscopic Image Of A Vinyl Record

This video shows how the stylus moves through the grooves.

Microscopic image of a vinyl record.

I describe how i made a stop motion animation of a phonograph needle in an lp groove using an electron microscope. I also show electron micrographs of other. This first vinyl record image was captured at 100x magnification using reflected light through the objective lens. Old forms of stylus.

The appearance of the grooves. A 6 3 megapixel microscope digital camera was used to capture the images. Microscopic images shared this image on their twitter some months back showing what a record s groove looks like under 1000x magnification. Record wear and the elliptical stylus.

Here s one of my dirty records. The white fibers and specks in the photos are the sources audio problems. 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.

When you look really closely at record grooves like at 1000x magnification you can see the waveforms of the music itself. Posted by jason kottke nov 06 2014. Click any label for an enlarged image. But i d already copied them to my computer using what else dak s incomparable lp to mp3 system.

The microscope views show the surface conditions the stylus encounters as it tracks in the record groove. Microscopic photo of vinyl record grooves. Stylus tracking and test records.