> your vinyl gets worse with every listen

Worn out vinyl grooves are typically caused by an unbalanced tonearm or damaged stylus.

Realistically if the tonearm is adequately balanced and the stylus is kept clean you're looking at hundreds to thousands of listens before it has any kind of even slightly discernible effect.

There's a much more likely chance of vinyls being damaged by simply handling them.

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parineum 2 days ago | parent [-]

How many people are performing proper maintenance on their record players?

The point stands either way. Vinyl isn't durable. It gets worn by proper usage and worse by improper usage.

My FLAC files are as perfect as the day I got them and are backed up both at home and remotely. Vinyl is an inferior format but people like rituals and hobbies but then they tell themselves lies about how it's actually better.

It's fine if you find it romantic and pleasing to pull out the vinyl, put it on the player then read the liner notes while listening to the album. That's awesome. It's the same for lots of hobbies I have but let's not act like it's technically superior in any way.

	▲	lloeki a day ago \| parent [-]
		I never said anything regarding it being "technically superior". I merely commented on the "vinyl gets destroyed on every play" trope which at a leisurely listening human scale largely does not matter: it does wear but the scale of it is largely insignificant in practice.