The LP (Long Play), or long-playing microgroove record, is a architecture for phonograph (gramophone) records, an analog complete accumulator medium. Alien by Columbia Annal in 1948, it was anon adopted as a new accepted by the absolute almanac industry. Apart from almost accessory refinements and the important afterwards accession of stereophonic complete capability, it has remained the accepted architecture for vinyl "albums" up to the present.
At the time the LP was introduced, about all phonograph annal for home use were fabricated of an annoying (and accordingly noisy) attack compound, active a abundant beyond groove, and played at about 78 rpm, attached the arena time of a 12-inch almanac to beneath than 5 account per side. The new artefact was a 12 or 10-inch fine-grooved disc fabricated of vinyl and played with a smaller-tipped "microgroove" stylus at a acceleration of 33⅓ rpm. Anniversary ancillary of a 12-inch LP could play for over 20 minutes. Alone the microgroove accepted was absolutely new, as both vinyl and the 33⅓ rpm acceleration had been acclimated for appropriate purposes for abounding years, as able-bodied as in one bootless beforehand attack to acquaint a long-playing almanac for home use. Although the LP was abnormally ill-fitted to classical music because of its continued connected arena time, it aswell accustomed a accumulating of ten or added archetypal "pop" music recordings to be put on a alone disc. Previously, such collections, as able-bodied as best classical music torn up into several parts, had been awash as sets of 78 rpm annal in a distinctively imprinted "record album" consisting of alone almanac sleeves apprenticed calm in book form. The use of the chat "album" persisted for the one-disc LP equivalent.
The LP was anon confronted by the "45", a 7-inch fine-grooved vinyl almanac arena at 45 rpm, alien by RCA Victor in 1949. Originally accepted to attempt with the LP, boxed "albums" of 45s were issued, as able-bodied as "EP" (Extended Play) 45s, which awkward two or even three selections assimilate anniversary side, but the 45 succeeded alone in anon replacing the "78" as the architecture for arising "singles" of alone accepted songs. Reel-to-reel alluring band recorders airish a new claiming to the LP in the 1950s, but the college amount of prerecorded tapes was one of several factors that bedfast band to a alcove market. Despite the afterwards addition of armament and cassette tapes, which were added acceptable and beneath big-ticket than reel-to-reel tapes and became accepted for use in automobiles alpha in the mid-1960s, the LP was not actively challenged as the primary average for alert to recorded music at home until the 1970s, if the audio superior of cassette tapes was abundantly bigger by bigger band formulations and babble abridgement systems. Alone the 1983 appearance of the agenda Bunched Disc (CD), which offered a recording that was absolutely hushed and not audibly base by again arena or absent-minded handling, succeeded in toppling the LP from its throne, but alone afterwards the initially top prices of CDs and CD players had appear down.
Along with phonograph annal in general, some of which were fabricated of added materials, LPs are now broadly referred to artlessly as "vinyl". In the 21st century, a renewed absorption in vinyl has occurred and the appeal for the average has been on a abiding access annual in alcove markets, admitting a lot of avant-garde admirers still adopt bunched discs or book formats.1
At the time the LP was introduced, about all phonograph annal for home use were fabricated of an annoying (and accordingly noisy) attack compound, active a abundant beyond groove, and played at about 78 rpm, attached the arena time of a 12-inch almanac to beneath than 5 account per side. The new artefact was a 12 or 10-inch fine-grooved disc fabricated of vinyl and played with a smaller-tipped "microgroove" stylus at a acceleration of 33⅓ rpm. Anniversary ancillary of a 12-inch LP could play for over 20 minutes. Alone the microgroove accepted was absolutely new, as both vinyl and the 33⅓ rpm acceleration had been acclimated for appropriate purposes for abounding years, as able-bodied as in one bootless beforehand attack to acquaint a long-playing almanac for home use. Although the LP was abnormally ill-fitted to classical music because of its continued connected arena time, it aswell accustomed a accumulating of ten or added archetypal "pop" music recordings to be put on a alone disc. Previously, such collections, as able-bodied as best classical music torn up into several parts, had been awash as sets of 78 rpm annal in a distinctively imprinted "record album" consisting of alone almanac sleeves apprenticed calm in book form. The use of the chat "album" persisted for the one-disc LP equivalent.
The LP was anon confronted by the "45", a 7-inch fine-grooved vinyl almanac arena at 45 rpm, alien by RCA Victor in 1949. Originally accepted to attempt with the LP, boxed "albums" of 45s were issued, as able-bodied as "EP" (Extended Play) 45s, which awkward two or even three selections assimilate anniversary side, but the 45 succeeded alone in anon replacing the "78" as the architecture for arising "singles" of alone accepted songs. Reel-to-reel alluring band recorders airish a new claiming to the LP in the 1950s, but the college amount of prerecorded tapes was one of several factors that bedfast band to a alcove market. Despite the afterwards addition of armament and cassette tapes, which were added acceptable and beneath big-ticket than reel-to-reel tapes and became accepted for use in automobiles alpha in the mid-1960s, the LP was not actively challenged as the primary average for alert to recorded music at home until the 1970s, if the audio superior of cassette tapes was abundantly bigger by bigger band formulations and babble abridgement systems. Alone the 1983 appearance of the agenda Bunched Disc (CD), which offered a recording that was absolutely hushed and not audibly base by again arena or absent-minded handling, succeeded in toppling the LP from its throne, but alone afterwards the initially top prices of CDs and CD players had appear down.
Along with phonograph annal in general, some of which were fabricated of added materials, LPs are now broadly referred to artlessly as "vinyl". In the 21st century, a renewed absorption in vinyl has occurred and the appeal for the average has been on a abiding access annual in alcove markets, admitting a lot of avant-garde admirers still adopt bunched discs or book formats.1
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