A Clean Record
IT’S EASY to dismiss the recent resurgence of interest in vinyl records as a youth-driven phenomenon, with millennials embracing vinyl more for its hipness factor than for the great sound that it can deliver. But in the course of my day job setting up and maintaining high-end turntables, I’m finding that much of the rekindled attention is actually coming from my fellow Boomers and Gen-Xers. Some of us never stopped playing our records. Others, it seems, simply stashed theirs in the basement decades ago when CDs seemed so convenient and are just now pulling them out to appreciate all over again.
Vinyl enthusiasts know that cleanliness is next to godliness when it comes to their records. So how do we deal with all the accumulated gunk resulting from decades of storage? Another problem is not having a clue where those mucky used records
