vinyl

Vinyl for Mac turns your Mac into a spinning vinyl player, offering a fun way to enjoy music with a retro aesthetic.

teenage.engineering announces the APC-2, a professional record cutter designed to be more affordable and accessible than vintage lathes, created in collaboration with SUPERSENSE and featuring a vacuum system, custom tonearm, and Wi-Fi configuration.

An interactive app that simulates the microscopic physics of a stylus tracing a vinyl groove, using realistic contact mechanics, noise sources, and tracing distortion, calibrated to real-world orders of magnitude.

Teenage Engineering announces APC-2, a professional audio disc recording system for cutting vinyl records in real time, built in collaboration with SUPERSENSE.

The article explains how the loudness war, typically a digital phenomenon, degrades vinyl record quality when compressed digital masters are used for vinyl cutting, using Prince's Purple Rain as an example.