Vinyl Sunday at Calexico this Sunday, 1 July from 10am until 3pm

It`s music and records all day long at Gauteng`s premier vinyl fair this Sunday, 1^st July at 44 Stanley, Auckland Park.  The Beer Yard has been revamped and is now renamed Calexico, offering a new Americana look and feel.  Featuring 13 top dealers, Vinyl Sunday offers consumers, fans and collectors alike the widest variety of quality  pre-owned and new vinyl records…from rock, pop and reggae to jazz, soul, blues and dance you can find just about any genre you want at the Vinyl Sunday Fair and who knows, perhaps that rare record that you have been searching all your life for !

The Fair kicks off at 10am sharp and closes at 3pm. The music play list for the day has been carefully curated by Benjy Mudie of Vinyl Junkie and it`s eclectic mix of rock ,jazz, dub, folk, alt-country and funk will keep you boppin` !  Add in some great food, craft beers, wines and good company, Vinyl Sunday is the best day out for the whole crew.  Come and browse through thousands of albums handpicked by the following dealers:

• Black Wax (Greg & Darren)
• Clover Records (T.J Du Plessis)
• Compact Discovery Revinylized (Wayne Hampton)
• Croak Audio Exploration (Guillaume Lemaire)
• Groovy Records (Martin Green & Pieter Rossouw)
• Jazz Essay Record Bar (Moeti)
• Record Mad (Michael Gundelfinger)
• Red Dot Records (Bernd Ader)
• Sound Experience (Andy Smith)
• Troggyldite Records (Reg Markham)
• Vinyl Junkie (Benjy Mudie)
• Woodstock Records (Vince Marino)

The Vinyl Revolution continues to grow

“High Definition Vinyl” has moved closer to a turntable near you. In 2016, a European patent filing described a way of manufacturing records that the inventors claimed would have higher audio fidelity, louder volume, and longer playing times than conventional LPs. Now, the Austrian-based start-up, Rebeat Innovation has received $4.8 million in funding for the initiative. Founder and CEO,Günter Loibl, told Pitchfork,  “thanks to the investment the first “HD vinyl” albums could hit stores as early as 2019”.

The HD vinyl process involves converting audio digitally to a 3D topographic map. Lasers are then used to inscribe the map onto the “stamper,” the part that stamps the grooves into the vinyl. According to Loibl, these methods allow for records to be made more precisely and with less loss of audio information. The results, he said, are vinyl LPs that can have up to 30 percent more playing time, 30 percent more amplitude, and overall more faithful sound reproduction. The technique would also avoid the chemicals that play a role in traditional vinyl manufacturing. Plus, the new-school HD vinyl LPs would still play on ordinary record players.

What’s next? Rebeat Innovation has ordered a big laser system, for about $600,000, with hopes that it will be shipped by July, Loibl said. Once that system is up and running, Loibl said he plans to produce test stampers for five to-be-determined “early mover” pressing plants. In September, the first test stampers would arrive at those plants. “Our goal is to officially present our test stampers at the Making Vinyl conference in October,” Loibl said, referring to the vinyl trade event held in Detroit. “It will take another eight months to do all the fine adjustments. So, by summer 2019 we shall see the first HD vinyls in the stores.”

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