This happens over a long period of time, so don’t worry too much if you’re fishing out a bunch at once and quickly need to pop some down. ‘Vinyl must be stored on its side and not on top of one another,' says Gray. This also gives vinyl longevity and gives it a better chance at staying in the best condition. Step into any record store and you’ll notice how they store their vinyl in rows, which makes it easy to flick through.
(Image credit: DJ Izaak Gray's record player et up) 9. It’s not unheard of in some venues with wooden floors for the DJ booth to be suspended from the ceiling, to counter the footfall of animated dancers.’ ‘It’s all too easy for a tone arm to skip when a dodgy floorboard bends as someone walks over,' says Gray. Make sure your deck is on some kind of solid surfaceīe it a table or stylish media unit, you're going to need to keep the record player as stable as possible to play without interruption. IsoAcoustics make some excellent devices that can decouple both your speakers and the deck from surfaces, for example. DJs in clubs know this too well.' 6. 'You can add extra isolation to your deck. 'Never place your speakers on the same object as the vinyl deck, unless they include some form of isolation.
‘Both from an audio fidelity and vinyl longevity perspective, vibration onto the deck is to be avoided,' says Gray.
We realize of course that this may pose a problem if you've got 20+ people in your living room jumping around to YMCA. Unlike with the best smart speakers, to get the best sound from your record player you're going to need to keep it still.