Collect enough vinyl And, you promise to find several of your twisted albums that don’t play properly. Maybe you foolishly left them in the sun, maybe you didn’t put them in a flat place, or you probably found a shaky rarity at a cheap price and thought you could recover it in your own game and beat Discogs.
Photo: Chris Haslam
It’s hard to set up a turntable or choose the right player, but it’s already painful to fix a twisted record without a dedicated tool (and relevant knowledge associated with it), which is worth it for most people.
The purpose of Turntable Stalwarts Pro-Ixjent is to solve this problem. It just launched a pre-order for Flatten IT, the first dedicated vinyl flatter. This is a solid aluminum block with two 12-inch hot plates that heat up and restore your precious long player to its original state. Can it save you the worst records? In my experience, it does a great job.
Finally flat
Photo: Chris Haslam
There is nothing particularly fancy here, just a highly accurate thermostat that provides the ideal warmth to repair shellac. After heating for about an hour, it will maintain a temperature of 136.4 degrees Fahrenheit (58 degrees Celsius) and gently iron any vinyl warp. It will fluctuate two degrees from it, and once you leave for two hours, drop to 86 degrees Fahrenheit (30 degrees Celsius), the record can be deleted safely.
You press the record will depend on how long the vinyl is thick. DynaFlex records a short 180g pressure that will be more flexible and harder to bend for longer. I need to test it on something less precious before I put it on my collection of precious but swaying 90s white labels.
