Record grooves under an electron microscope

Very cool.

I pity the poor styli! That's quite a bumpy ride they go on!

I've always thought record playback to be a fascinating thing.

It's a lot harder to make a connection and romanticize about pits and bits and bytes, isn't it?

So a question for the hardcore vinyl enthusiast. Is that record in the photos clean or dirty? Audiophile recording or no? Extra credit: What label?

That's very interesting. I would love to see some electron photos after a record has been cleaned with different solutions and machines etc. because all we have so far are subjective observations. Don

I fantasize about record repairing nano-bots that you could rent/buy to fix your records.
Maybe by 2030? (if you followed the 2010 2030 thread...)

"record repairing nano-bots":

Like super micro versions of the Langoliers :-)

Only on Star Trek: The Next Generation.