The grooves (and a scratch) on a 45RPM stereo single vinyl record photographed at 25x resolution

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Clean and unclean, the grooves on a vinyl are what reproduce the sound. Dust gets caught between the close grooves and produces the characteristic crackles and hissing associated with this form of sound reproduction. Photographed using reflected light and a light microscope at 25x.

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Size: 3386px × 5100px
Location: Oxfordshire UK
Photo credit: © Julian Brooks / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No

Keywords: 45rpm, black, close, closeup, dust, gramophone, grooves, light, lines, macro, magnification, micro, microscope, microscopy, music, needle, phonograph, record, , scratches, single, sound, stereo, stylus, vinyl