by Rick Coste | Jan 5, 2023 | Vinyl Record Tips
There’s nothing more frustrating than buying a brand-new sealed record, unwrapping it, and placing it on your turntable to find it is warped. Okay, there are more frustrating things, but it ranks up there with scratches in the record-buying world. I’ve had this happen...
by Rick Coste | Oct 7, 2022 | Vinyl Record Tips
I love album cover artwork. When I was a kid, I would study every nuance of every image. I looked for hidden meanings in the lyrics as I listened to the music. The idea of hiding the truth in plain sight on a cover made the artwork more compelling. Placing hidden gems...
by Rick Coste | Apr 30, 2022 | Equipment Reviews
Buying your first turntable is difficult. Researching which one to buy is even more challenging. Especially when articles, blog posts, and Reddit threads praise and trash every option out there. I get it. It happens every time I want to add to my setup. Even something...
by Rick Coste | Apr 16, 2022 | Record Stores
There’s something about California that’s hard to explain. I’ve only been there twice in my life, and both times I felt a change in the air compared to my home state of New Hampshire. It wasn’t better or worse. It was different. Maybe it was the warm temperatures when...
by Rick Coste | Apr 16, 2022 | Equipment Tips
In a previous post, I looked at the different types of turntable styli. If you recall, your stylus sits at the end of a cantilever. The other end of the cantilever disappears into a little magic box called the cartridge. It’s where something is created that didn’t...
