Standard Vinyl Album Size

Vinyl records come in different speeds and sizes do you know what kind you have.

Standard vinyl album size.

Vinyl record album covers are usually 12 inches by 12 inches for lp albums. We pride ourselves on manufacturing top quality vinyl records as well as cd dvd blu ray discs too. Actually the whole concept of constant turntable speed had been obsolete since the turn of the century. The lp from long playing or long play is an analog sound storage medium a phonograph record format characterized by a speed of 33 1 3 rpm a 12 or 10 inch 30 or 25 cm diameter and use of the microgroove groove specification introduced by columbia in 1948 it was soon adopted as a new standard by the entire record industry.

Apart from a few relatively minor refinements and the. Inventing the 33 yet few used it. At a certain point records can become cramped with grooves and have to expand in size to accommodate the extra music play while maintaining the quality of the audio. This allowed for more information to be printed onto a smaller record without losing any fidelity.

By the time 78 became standard new methods of audio recording had emerged. The size of disc varied over time with 10 inches eventually becoming a popular size. Thus we ended with one speed and spindle size for popular songs and another for symphonies. 7 inch 10 inch and 12 inch.

The 78 mercifully was out of the picture by 1950. Crammed onto a side of vinyl of any size before the quality. We have details on sizes speeds and best way to convert. For singles covers of 7 inches are common because of the format s smaller size.

Records come in three standard sizes. An album cover is the front of the packaging of a commercially released audio recording product or album the term can refer to either the printed paperboard covers typically used to package sets of 10 in 25 cm and 12 in 30 cm 78 rpm records single and sets of 12 in 30 cm lps sets of 45 rpm records either in several connected sleeves or a box or the front facing panel of a cd. A standard 7 inch single is smaller than a full length album because it contains less music and is intended to be less expensive. Records in the 78 rpm format were usually sold with 10 inch covers but are uncommon today.