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I often use a sewing needle and a CCTV magnifier to remove debris, repair skips and loop defects, and most of the scratches to success. I can say my overall success rate is 80%, and it tends towards 90% nowadays as I improve my needle handling skills. Of course there are exceptions. If a gouge is too deep, I can only reduce the effect of the scratch/defect. So I consider success turning a record that makes big loud scractch clicks to gentle or moderate loudness clicks for a few revolutions. The danger is it can create loops/skips if the needle slides and breaks the groove walls. It happened a few times and the records became unrepairable. That is the minority, though, and sometimes the price to pay to learn to avoid it in future repairs. Most of the time, I can turn trash records into decently playable records, and some of these are in my collection. I will even prefer keeping a repaired scratch copy that now plays well, over an unscratched copy with more wear on the groove (than the repaired copy).

One company makes eyeglasses out if old scratched albums

I’m curious. Why did they stop making the SAE machines if they were so popular? Also: where can you get the Sugar Cube machine? Everyone says not available. Is there a comparable product?

My products, comments, and ideas are located on my website for Austin AudioWorks at: www.austinaudioworks.com Thank you, The Sugar Cube is a fine version of a digital device that does what the SAE 5000 did in analog, but perhaps a bit pricey for most folks. About the SAE 5000, that was one of the 'series of compromises' type of products. The idea was great but the parts we had available to us in the 1980's was limited especially as we had a cost-cap to get it to sell in stores we targeted. Business first was a rule at SAE. Thank you. Barry

Hi Barry, I use a sweet Vinyl Sugar Cube SC-1 for scratched records, i find it works very well without losing the original music. Used to have an sae 5000, it did compress the music some but it got rid of pops/clicks. The Sugar Cube is much better. modern tech I guess. is your website for your new prods up yet.

Nice video .thanks

hi barry got a question if a any record record had light surface scratch here and there it was vg someone states

Welp, time to say goodbye to the new Led Zeppelin album I just bought and scratched a little bit. 😔😔😔😔😔😔

I’ll be fine if it’s just a small scratch that makes small pops for like half of one song right? i’ll just try to be more careful

Interesting question David Doggy - the answer is a definitive YES. I have spent the last couple of years developing some thrilling new audio technologies and products. In the first week of 2021 I will be launching a new website showing my phono preamplifier The Black Swan, and a radically cool headphone amp called the the Black Amp, new videos and musings, a blog, pretty much the works. In the second quarter of 2021 I will be releasing The BlackDAC, and astounding Digital audio unit along with The New Concept Amplifier favoring planar speakers in both a 35 and 100 watt versions. I hate to say that Covid has a good side but it did let me woodshed my creativity, scratch my cat Fred, and get to it as we say. Kind of a one-man-band I am chasing the dream of bringing the soul and thrill of music reproduction out of the stratosphere and back to the reality of our homes. Watch me dance, it will be fun.

R u still around?

Intrinsically records are quite, dust and debris are the microscopic primogenitors of the noise the infuriates you. perhaps it is time for some good record cleaning to get rid of the disturbances. Give it try and enjoy the results. Merry Christmas and a most crackle free New Year

I thought vinyl had cracking sounds in them

One can also heat them in the oven until soft and make ash trays or soap holders from them. Properly shaped they can also serve as a small self-draining plant pot or project nut and bolt holders. The are pretty versatile disks of plastic.

I am new to collecting vinyl records. Where can I go to start to learn how to buy and sale, what records are best and how to care for them besides your video's of course. :-)

Where the hell did you get your information? It would take me all day to correct everything you said in this video! Just so you know, the human er can only hear 20kHz at a time. So all that extra sound you're talking about can't even be heard by a human ear! And the fact that you think a vinyl holds MORE information than a digital source is the reason that I can say you're just talking out your ass. In fact, when mastering the sound to be pressed on a vinyl, you have to drop the high pitches and decrease the low pitches because the needle can't handle the grooves being so narrow and short. This actually decreases the amount of information from the original source. Your information is as old and outdated as your high school diploma.

So this means out of my nearly 2,000 record collection only about 20% are good. Thanks a lot.

Thanks for nothing santa 🎅

Yes, a good place for them. In the old days when everyone smoked we would put them in the oven and mold them into ash trays. Time have changed. Thanks for commenting

if you scratch a record you could put it on the wall

Yay GROOVE!!! There is only one! Amazing how many people say "grooves."

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Hi Marc, well basically maybe - heat will make vinyl (a plastic) soft to the point of being a liquid again. The warpage occurs when there is temperature difference in different parts of the vinyl disk. Vinyl does slightly expand when warm creating internal stresses in the disk. Steam is hot (typically) so if part of a disc gets hot there will be the chance of warping, but if the disc is inside a jacket the heat will will probably be very much the same across the disc (not much different). Consider that the record will be held flat so that if part does get hot it will be physically constrained until the disc comes back to a equal temperature all over. Given a bunch of 'if's heat it can be the agent of change for a warp, so can bending the disc for a long time. So not always an easy answer, like most of life, sometimes yes, sometimes no. Remember that the record is pressed from hot vinyl in the first place, if it cool ed homogeneously then it will be flat. Can re-heating a record the cooling it evenly help? Yes, it will let the internal stresses reach equality reducing or eliminating the source of the warping . Back to the question, is steam the agent of change, no heat is and steam is hot.

can steam warp vinyl

Hello Jason. I have had several folks mention this process and it has some merit. Your remarks leading up to the sanding part are all accurate. Please consider this thought. A scratch, a real one, is something that cuts across several grooves, in a microscope it looks a bunch of rows in a garden that someone took a hoe an drug the sharp corner of the the tool and sliced across few of the parallel rows. The rows are the analogy of the grooves. The grooves 'wiggle' thus carry information, our audio signal. What happened is that 'scratch' is the addition of new (and not desired) information to this process that we perceive as an Click or Pop, lots of higher frequency information in a short time. If the pop is obnoxious enough can do one of a couple of things. You can live with it, You can toss the record. You can find one of several "Click and Pop" filters build in the late 70's and early 80's (we build and sold such a device when I was Chief Engineer of SAE back then). You can try to modify the sharpness of the edges and relative depth of the cut through the grooves. This is what you do with sandpaper. As you sand the tops of the grooves you reduce the sharp edges and the relative depth of the scratch, this effectively lowers the frequency of the mechanical transient, lowers its energy content spreading the new information and its energy out over time. The scratch It is not as loud and now masked by the original music content. This short part of the music becomes a sonic 'blur', the rest of the recording is fine. For every groove this occurs in there is repeated about one 'blur'-out every 2 seconds (60 sec/33 rpm). Maybe not enough to make you throw the record away. But you nailed the real issue, the skill and patience to clean up just the damaged grooves and to manage the damage the sanding does. It requires a fine jeweler's hand, good vision, and experience to pull off. If you have the patience and skill then this is a viable solution in many cases, congratulations for having acquired the skills. Sound good to me.

I hate to disagree with someone with these credentials but I have repaired records that would otherwise have been garbage, i.e. where a scratch resulted in a recurring tic for the length of the scratch (not talking about a skip or a loop). Many tics and pops are a result of grime in the grooves and can often (for the most part) be cleaned out through one of a variety of cleaning methods. But obviously noise which results from a scratch cannot be cleaned. If the only other option is the trash, get some 1500 wet/dry sand paper and carefully work on the scratch. (This could be a whole tutorial unto itself so I won't get deep into it.) I have saved multiple records this way. It's not pretty, but it has worked for me as a last resort. It's worth a try before just trashing your records!

Excellent, without rambling you got right to the essential point. I wish more YTrs would do this.

Wasted of time to make a video about nothing. It seem that the old guy has nothing to do. If you can something to contribute don't make us wasted our time with useless video. There are thing to fix a scratched record but it takes a lithe know how . Here is and example; ruclips.net/video/FYZHkDhad54/видео.html

Hey Barry I really like your info on colored vinyl! I read an article a while back that said that the color shouldn't matter as much as the quality of the vinyl, basically saying that as long as the vinyl is virgin, it should all sound as good as black?! As much as I'd like to believe that, I do agree with your analysis of this issue because when I look at my colored vinyl, every so often I see what looks like small artifacts, like pieces of the vinyl that didn't quite melt fully and form correctly for the pressing and that gives me pause about, 'it doesn't matter as long as it's virgin!' Just wanted to see what you had to say about that and if you had any suggestions as to whether or not there's anything you can apply to the surface of the vinyl in order to keep the surface noise down? I have a spin clean, then I put it on a Record Doctor to vacuum as much junk as I can out of the grooves! And I also wanted your opinion on doing this before it's even played for the first time because of the residual scraps from the pressing, which I would think you would want to get as much of that out of there before you actually run the needle through the grooves?! Thanks Barry I appreciate your time!

In process of transferring my LP & 45 collection to digital Mp3. I'll be glad when it's over. Hate vinyl with a passion ! So much cleaning involved !

Miss you Barry

"About a million years ago, actually in the late 1970's" ???

somebody sprayed a little wd40 on a record and all the clicks and pop disappeared. water worked too.

No you can repair a scratch some wet and dry 2000 grit paper go over these scratched area with the grooves and get some 0 Swale compound paste and polish it with the grooves you don't want a lot of pressure with the sandpaper just taking off the Burr same with polishing you don't want to go in the grooves a piece of lint free cloth stretched over candle making sure the candle is flat to the record the end of the candle medium to light pressure. Make sure you wash the record after the sanding before polishing then wash the record again after polishing. Spraying a record with ttd dc100 dry silicone lubricant can help with minor scratches. Should always be applied anyway after proper washing just spin the record spray-on leave to dry There is machines that get rid of clicks and Pops you can even use a Raspberry Pi. You're not digitally recording it you're just using equalisation Play the record after the wet and dry and washed you should virtually hear nothing if you can still hear and go over a little bit more till you hear nothing. Use a small piece of wood to apply the wet and dry or the candle same thing keeping it parallel 90° with the surface don't tilt

Brilliant video. The whole digital problem is that increasing resolution on digital source does not move away digital sound: dead and poor timbres, plastic sound, poor dynamics etc.

hello why vinyl is better? Barry

**DO NOT LISTEN TO THIS GUY.** I REPEAT: DO NOT LISTEN TO THE GUY WITH WHITE HAIR and blue shirt!Scratches AND skips can be repaired with anything that can push the bent groove wall (scratch) out of the way or back in place. Light grit sandpaper, needles, pencil erasers or my personal favorite, Mr Clean Magic Eraser! Nearly anything that can mold itself into the groove and “push” the scratch out of the way can be used. Of course, in essence you basically ”sand the scratch away”, along with the immediate area around it, which MIGHT lead to a LOSS OF fidelity, but in the many times Ive removed scratches, Ive NEVER noticed a fidelity loss. The vinyl will have a mark wherever you’ve rubbed it, but thats only an aesthetic flaw. SO KIDS, what would you rather do? Follow this guys advice and throw your record away? Or live with bullshit skips on your vinyl? Or put a bit of effort and remove the scratch to the point that your LP is skip free? Please keep in mind, your scratch wont magically disappear, but will be reduced to the point that IT DOESN’T SKIP. (Thats the point!!) It must chap this guys ass to know that poor kids in the South Bronx were removing scratches/skips from vinyl with dirt cheap methods while he was “CFO”or whatever of “Blah Blah Engineering” trying to unsuccessfully reinvent the wheel.

I'll bet it was, but your remark triggered a thought. I have been designing and building a DAC as part of my music system. I am confronted with the reality that DAC chips come in to families of concern to the listener, those are voltage or current output. Where the bits of digital turn into the electrical current we call an analog signal is the conundrum. The 'switches" that open and close, one for each 'blt', are brought together they are added together or 'summed' as a current to represent the signal level at that instant. It is in the form of a current. Pull or push current through a resistor and you get voltage. Ahh, here is where the audio starts. But the physics of IC design for the switching stuff degrades performance unless it is in the current mode. So make all this switching work best you need to sum the signals in the current mode, the output of the chip wants to see a ground so that only current flows and no voltage is developed. Out technology solution for this is a current summing operational amplifier in a 100% feedback mode. Everybody does it because the chip manufacture tells you that is how you get the most out of the chip. Chip tech lit is filled with proven production schematics to build from. This point in the signal process, this transition from Digital to Analog, is done with some kind of Current-to-Voltage Converter. We call it the I/E stage (I is a symbol for current, E is for voltage) and Op-Amps do it very, very well. Amps in one side and volts out the other. If you go to my website you will see papers I have written on Feed-back and its effects on the audio experience and the illusions we are trying to invoke as listeners. So I took my current-mode amplifier circuit (I call it a Magnifier) that has worked so well in the Black Amp and the Concept Amp and applied it to the output of a standard "good" DAC chip, in this case an Analog Devices AD1955 I could buy cheaply on a full board from China. Cut off the audio stuff and went directly to the chip output. Today I connect the last 10 wires between the boards and will see how it works. Oh yea, information. If you believe as I do that data reduces to information which begets knowledge offering up wisdom, and there is both raw data and metadata, then you have to watch out which you are thinking about. Off to the bench, have a good day

did you say more data?

Barry why does vinyl record better than CD? please let me know thanks kind regards William c adlam thank you

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Heathkit also had a click pop reduction unit that was quite good.

people may think this makes there setup look cool.. but at the end of the day you are still not cool. keep trying douche bags..

Hum Interesting learned something new today, I do know in college couple classmates came over saw my linear tracking turntable and laughed, we had a shootout CD verses LP the Lp better fidelity veses CD more dynamic range and stereo separation which sounds unnatural compared to LP

Barry, love your channel very much. Question, am I crazy to put together two very different pairs of speakers and listen to them together. Have an Elac B6.2 and Focal 706 bookshelf. As I put them together I've noticed they complement each other remarkably well. I know two engineers were involved with two separate recipes. My audiophile friend ( I'm a pianist, not an audiophile) tells me what I'm doing is "wrong". Your thoughts?

Poor Answer, The Lazy mans answer.

some people blaming pop's and crackles that's because it's a damaged record buy a new one that's the same as a scratched cd they will both not play properly errhhh .

Thanks Barry. I was hoping to fix one of my favorite records Third Rate Romance by The Amazing Rhythm Aces. Guess I have to break it in half and throw it away. :(

Dang man my mom got me a fats domino record and a buddy holly record and both have scratches but I got one that is electric light orchestra dont bring me down in fantastic condition from 1973 :)