Husband and a wife who own a gramophone records shop Agentura music 69. He has a special room with a custom-built ceiling for better acoustics at home. He also owns an automatic cleaning machine for records. The records which he sells are from his personal collection. Sometimes it is hard to let them go.
While a music band was performing in a studio, the sound was being engraved in the record at simultaneously. The material for the record was either rubber or shellac. When the production process advanced, musicians were recorded on a magnetic tape. A prototype was manufactured out of it. The prototype is a metal record which is then used for pressing a real PVC record. The prototype can last around 7000 pressings. Either analogue or digital recording is used nowadays.
Quality of records differs and it differed a lot during the communistic era. Japan and western countries received the prototype or the first magnetic tape. They used it to manufacture the prototype. Communistic countries usually obtained second or x-copy via a grey channel. These ones weren’t of so high quality. One of the reasons why the first copies weren’t sent to Eastern bloc countries was (related to British record companies) that if the first copies were sent, they never returned. If you would like to publish a record nowadays, the expenses are around 3 700 €.
King of records.
