Standard Vinyl Album Size

Inventing the 33 yet few used it.

Standard vinyl album size.

Actually the whole concept of constant turntable speed had been obsolete since the turn of the century. We pride ourselves on manufacturing top quality vinyl records as well as cd dvd blu ray discs too. We offer 7 10 or 12 vinyl records in black white clear standard colour records custom colour records or special colour effect records smoke marble swirl split colour colour in colour glow in the dark metallic silver. Vinyl record album covers are usually 12 inches by 12 inches for lp albums.

We have details on sizes speeds and best way to convert. The 78 mercifully was out of the picture by 1950. The lp from long playing or long play is an analog sound storage medium a phonograph record format characterized by a speed of 33 1 3 rpm a 12 or 10 inch 30 or 25 cm diameter and use of the microgroove groove specification introduced by columbia in 1948 it was soon adopted as a new standard by the entire record industry. Nonetheless the public allowed itself to be duped and in 1951 columbia began making 45s too.

At a certain point records can become cramped with grooves and have to expand in size to accommodate the extra music play while maintaining the quality of the audio. Thus we ended with one speed and spindle size for popular songs and another for symphonies. The size of disc varied over time with 10 inches eventually becoming a popular size. This allowed for more information to be printed onto a smaller record without losing any fidelity.

Vinyl records come in different speeds and sizes do you know what kind you have. By the time 78 became standard new methods of audio recording had emerged. 7 inch 10 inch and 12 inch. Records come in three standard sizes.

Vinyl record sizes differ based on how much music is stored on the surface of the disk. A standard 7 inch single is smaller than a full length album because it contains less music and is intended to be less expensive. Records in the 78 rpm format were usually sold with 10 inch covers but are uncommon today. Crammed onto a side of vinyl of any size before the quality.