French company MWM has announced a new product called Phase that sits on your turntable and allows you to DJ vinyl without the use of a needle. Phase wirelessly translates a record's movements ...

vinyl must be handled correctly to keep things like oils and debris from the fingers from building up on them, which can damage the record and your needle. One tip before we start: If you're ...

The pops and hisses of a vinyl record hint at the device's magical and mysterious inner workings. But Ben Krasnow wanted to know a little bit more. Specifically, he wanted to photograph a needle ...

Then there's the ritual: removing that 12" slab of black vinyl from the sleeve, putting it on the deck and dropping the needle, waiting for the brief pause and the crackle before the music starts ...

Which is exactly why the music lover in me was thrilled when I heard about Social’s new series of meetups called ‘Drop The Needle’, which was to essentially be a vinyl appreciation and ...

it turns out they’re proving useful in other ways – particularly for vinyl enthusiasts. It’s long been known that you can make a DIY gramophone with a needle and a cone of paper, but there ...

There's something wonderful about the ceremony of playing records: dropping the needle, enjoying the gatefold ... Now that the MP3 is king, vinyl has become something of an underground revolution.

without the use of a needle. Phase wirelessly translates a record’s movements into timecode, which can then be read by Digital Vinyl System (DVS) software like Serato and Traktor. Debuted at ...