23/12/2025
Vinyl records work by storing sound as tiny grooves on a disc that a turntable reads and turns back into music.
When a song is recorded, the sound waves are used to carve a spiral groove into a master disc. The groove has tiny bumps and dips that match the sound’s pitch and volume.
When you play the record, a needle (stylus) runs along the groove. As it moves over the bumps and dips, it vibrates in the same pattern as the original sound. These vibrations travel through the turntable’s cartridge, which converts them into an electrical signal. The signal is then amplified and sent to speakers, producing the music you hear.
In short, vinyl is a mechanical way of storing and playing sound—the grooves are a physical map of the music, and the needle reads it to recreate the sound.
