Monday, November 8, 2010

How To Store Your Vinyl LP Collection

Stowing your vinyl LP collection is really critical specially if you’re a serious vinyl LP collector. You don’t only need to maintain the vinyl itself, but also the album covers. Ensuring that your albums don’t get marred while they are being kept calls for accurate stowage. Vinyl albums are really sensitive that improper storage can scratch them. But you don’t want this to happen to your vinyl albums, so pick from among different storage options to stow your collection properly.

On top of the list is a record cabinet by Atocha. Even though this is really expensive, it is entirely custom-made to hold vinyl albums, making it more suitable to arrange and store the albums. Depending on your collection, whether they are composed of 45 records, CDs or LP records, you can have your record cabinet specially assembled to hold a specific type of record or almost your entire diverse collection.

Your second option will be to buy shelves which are specially sized for LP records. These shelves are custom-built to contain the weight and size and of the vinyl albums. The shelves have a size of thirteen inches to hold one vinyl record and there are also thirteen inches splitting each shelf. Storing your entire collection of almost a thousand vinyl albums is not an issue with this stowage option; plus, removing a vinyl album from the shelf is very easy.

Your third and last choice will be LP stowing chests. You can make sure that your vinyl albums will not be subjected to air, filth, and daylight when stored in these boxes. These boxes can even store your entire collection in a small space since you can just pile one box on top of the other. In addition, cases are the cheapers storage option for your vinyl LP collection and you can procure them in different kinds of materials. There are cases made of word or ridged plastic. But then again, don’t stow your vinyl albums in cardboard boxes as they are not sturdy enough to accommodate numerous records for a long period of time. This is because when the cardboard chests get scratched, your vinyl albums and album covers will also be marred.

There you have it. Whatever stowage option you select, whether it’s the high-end Atocha record cabinet or the inexpensive LP stowage cases, you’ll be certain that your vinyl albums will be stowed safe and sound. What’s crucial is you keep the condition of your vinyl LP collection.

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