There’s nothing more annoying than slipping a record out of its sleeve, placing it on your turntable, and realizing it’s warped. Yeah there’s some home remedies for fixing a warped record, but for those of you too lazy for any of those shinanigans there’s the DFV-1 from Furutech.

The DFV-1 is a LP flattener that uses precision heating and cooling to basically iron your vinyl back into shape. Only downside…it’ll cost ya $1480.

[via Crave]

This is too funny!

I just came across these amazing sketches by a guy called Stefan Glerum which illustrate the obsessive nature of crate digging.  The drawings, titled Crate Digging: Don’t Do It! depict several reasons why crate digging can be detrimental to your health.

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Here’s a documentary about people who collect vinyl records…and not the cool audiophile/producer type, but rather the nerdy guy next door who would never let you borrow any of his albums.

Remember the tiny record playing VW bus called the Vinyl Killer? Yeah i never wound up getting one either, but now there is a variation on it called the Sound Chaser.

Unlike the Vinyl Killer, the Sound Chaser is not restricted to driving in circles endlessly, but rather whatever path you choose to send it on. The designers of the product, Yuri Suzuki and Yaroslav Tencer were careful to point out that the records they used were “cheap records bought at jumble sales or used record shops,” so as to not offend those of us who generally prefer our vinyl intact.