With luxury turntables reaching prices well into six figures, a salient question arises: What about the quality of the albums themselves? Even the most ardent vinyl collector has lost a few records to warping over the years.

That's where the "DFV-1 Record Flattener" will prove its worth as long as it stays true to its name. The device, made by Tokyo-based Furutech, claims to be a "one-stop, one-button solution" that uses a "carefully controlled heating and cooling cycle it flatten all your warped records, even those with only slight irregularities that still unsettle your cartridge causing mistracking."

The Flattener doesn't come cheap at $1,480, but it's all relative when you're spending $150,000 to play your records. Besides, as fellow Craver Rafe Needleman suggests, maybe you can use it to make Eggos too.



Source: http://crave.cnet.com/8301-1_105-9782558-1.html

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Originally posted by bas we're just rolling in that sweet sweet Beatport chedda SON. I PUT DIAMONDS IN MY SALT SHAKER SO I CAN HAVE CRUSHED DIAMONDS ON MY FOOD...it makes my dookie twinkle!!!

Really?

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luxury turntables?

Are the covered with velvet or something? And six figures, hot diggity I'm selling my TTs now, for the bargain price of $99,000 each. Get em while they're cheap peoples!

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hahahah

or i could just use a FUCKING IRON.

what a bunch of idiots, I always iron my records before playing them, makes them easier to beatmatch, since it makes the grooves less filled.

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Originally posted by placebo hahahah or i could just use a FUCKING IRON. what a bunch of idiots, I always iron my records before playing them, makes them easier to beatmatch, since it makes the grooves less filled.

wait are u serious

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Originally posted by placebo hahahah or i could just use a FUCKING IRON. what a bunch of idiots, I always iron my records before playing them, makes them easier to beatmatch, since it makes the grooves less filled.

lmao

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Originally posted by Oreoh142 wait are u serious

yeah, after you iron them it also makes all the eq's and whatnot more pronounced, works like a charm.

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Originally posted by placebo yeah, after you iron them it also makes all the eq's and whatnot more pronounced, works like a charm.

i do that, too. but first i preheat the oven to 300 degrees then set the records in bake for about 10 min (no more than that!) that way when i go to iron, everything is more pliable and fixes into place a LOT easier

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Originally posted by JD8180 i do that, too. but first i preheat the oven to 300 degrees then set the records in bake for about 10 min (no more than that!) that way when i go to iron, everything is more pliable and fixes into place a LOT easier

That's a good tip, I usually cover mine in brown gravy (McCormick FTW) before baking them though...so when I'm at the club, not only am I dropping MAD BEATS, but it smells like mom's cooking too.

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If you coat the center spindle hole with blood-of-some-dead-etard before baking, it makes them easier to beatmatch

Right... or I could just buy the god damn record again for $12. ok...

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Originally posted by MERiDiAN5i2 If you coat the center spindle hole with blood-of-some-dead-etard before baking, it makes them easier to beatmatch

I've noticed that before playing a gig, I'll sacrifice a virgin to the "God of Wax" for good luck. Every time I've done that, I've done well.

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