Tips to Maintain your Vinyl Collection

Classy and wonderful as they are, records require a lot of protection and maintenance. Even the slightest touch and the slightest fall could put your collection at a risk and damage it. True as it is, your vinyl collection will require more care and protection than other options, but they do look impressive and wonderful on your shelves!

Since we know how wonderful it is, here are some easy-peasy tips to help you protect and maintain your collection!

The tips that help you keep your collection at its best

Nobody wants to see their collection go to waste or see it get damaged. If you are one of those who love their vinyl collection, then here are some of the best tips to help you protect them:

• Get your collection a storage space:
  When you begin to collect records, make sure that you know where you’d store them. When you aren’t listening to them, you need to put them away in a place where they can stay safe until you have to take them out next. Furthermore, you should consider the strength of the area where you store them.

• Each record could weigh somewhere between 140 grams to 200 grams. So, as your collection grows, the weight of the collection will grow as well. So, remember to keep that in mind when you decide to choose a space to store your collection.

• Handle with Care:
  Another thing that you need to keep in mind is that you need to consider the way you treat them. Handling vinyl records is harder than handling your CDs. So, when you begin to take care of your records or when you store them after playing, make sure that you do not touch the playing part of the record. 

• If you touch that part, you will transfer the oils from your skin into the groves, which might distort the sound quality of the record and may do some permanent damage to it.

• So, do not touch the shiny side of the record just like a CD!

• Learn the right way to clean it:
  Now, we know that handling vinyl records is a behemoth of a task. So, we insist that you learn how to clean the player and the records. Since the records are sensitive and require a lot of care, you need to keep the following tips in mind:
• Look for the right tools to take care of your record player.
• When you are playing your records, remember to keep the lid closed.
• Do not let the dust accumulate in the record player, as it may transfer the dust to your records, which may skip the music or may stop playing entirely.
• Also, learn about the ways to clean your record player by looking it up online.

• Know when to replace the stylus
  Just as any perfect system, the stylus of the record player is also required to be changed. Now the point is, if the stylus is not working fine or as good as it should be, the quality of the sound from the records will never be the same even if you have the perfect vinyl and the music system.
  
• So, check your stylus every now and then to inspect it. Furthermore, have a look at the stores that sell stylus options to replace your stylus from time to time.

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Apart from this, you are required to maintain your vinyl records, for which you need to ensure that you invest some money in plastic covers and cases to protect the records. Also, keep checking your system for wear and tear.