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Re: Microscopic photos of vinyl record grooves
« Reply #1 on: May 06, 2021, 05:34:49 pm »

 Wow!! Very, very interesting, thanks! I remember seeing a cartoon somewhere with a billboard in it that read something like "Play a vinyl album everyday, they served us well for many years"
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Re: Microscopic photos of vinyl record grooves
« Reply #2 on: May 10, 2021, 01:46:15 am »

That was cool! Brings me back to my former life training to be a TEM/SEM operator back at the end of the 1970s and looking at minutia was so fascinating! Got trained in both material sciences (engineering) and in histology/cytology (biological) which was more interesting of the two facets since I was hard-core into life sciences with my photography back then.

Though I didn't finish the program as my photographic biz was taking off (and making $$$), the science and the scientific methodology I learned became a framework for the analytics used in many projects over the course of these years.

Glad I had the opportunity back yet also grateful life took me along a different path.
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Re: Microscopic photos of vinyl record grooves
« Reply #3 on: May 10, 2021, 09:12:54 am »

I look at those grooves and bumps and at the needle and I think it's a wonder it works at all!  :)
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Re: Microscopic photos of vinyl record grooves
« Reply #4 on: May 10, 2021, 09:54:27 am »

Good Vibrations!
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Re: Microscopic photos of vinyl record grooves
« Reply #5 on: May 10, 2021, 10:56:22 am »

It's a fascinating video.
I had to send a link to my brother Rodney, who was trained as a physicist but ended up building beautiful harpsichords.
I titled my email, "This is what Rodney would do if he had a scanning electron microscope."

I haven't heard his response yet.
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Re: Microscopic photos of vinyl record grooves
« Reply #6 on: May 11, 2021, 04:21:15 pm »

Very interesting! Thanks for sharing.
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Re: Microscopic photos of vinyl record grooves
« Reply #7 on: May 12, 2021, 11:21:06 am »

I look at those grooves and bumps and at the needle and I think it's a wonder it works at all!  :)

Agreed.  How that technology could ever reproduce high quality sound (let alone music) is beyond me.
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Re: Microscopic photos of vinyl record grooves
« Reply #8 on: May 12, 2021, 11:40:11 am »

it's getting those "good vibrations" (quoting a Beach Boys song)
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