The machines that are needed to create vinyl records are rare.

制作黑胶唱片所需的机器非常少。

But sales of vinyl records have been growing for the past 10 years.

但在过去10年里，黑胶唱片的销量一直在增长。

First CDs, then digital downloads and now streaming have made vinyl records look like a vintage curiosity.

一开始是CD，然后是数字下载，现在是流媒体，这些都让黑胶唱片看起来像是老古董。

There is some debate about the sound quality of vinyl records compared to electronic recordings, but that is not the whole story.

与电子唱片相比，黑胶唱片的音质存在一些争议，但这并不是全部。

Rock music is still the best-selling kind of music for vinyl records.

摇滚音乐仍然是黑胶唱片最畅销的音乐类型。

I have six Nina Simone vinyl records and I'll just bounce in between.

我有六张 Nina Simone 黑胶唱片，我会在两者之间跳来跳去。

We used to have CDs, and we used to have 8-tracks, and vinyl records, and tapes.

我们曾经有 CD，我们曾经有 8 轨、、黑胶唱片和磁带。

A record player, for those of you who don't know, is a box with a turntable – or turning plate that you put your vinyl records on to play them.

给不知道电唱机的人解释一下，电唱机就是一个带转盘的盒子，你可以将黑胶唱片放在上面播放。

It is estimated that there is demand for about 400m vinyl records annually, but pressing plants are able to manufacture only around 160m.

据估计，每年对黑胶唱片的需求量约为 4 亿张，但压制工厂只能生产约 1.6 亿张。

If you look at an old vinyl record closely, you can see that there are little lines that go around and around the disk.

如果您仔细观察一张旧的黑胶唱片，您会发现盘面周围有细小的线条。

A device measures the force or pressure levels from the air particles in the concert hall or recording studio and graphs them into the grooves on a vinyl record.

一种设备可以测量音乐厅或录音室中空气粒子的力量或压力水平，并将它们绘制成黑胶唱片上的凹槽。

In contrast, Bae's team discovered that the stars in this triple-star system are ringed by clouds of dust in multiple warped and misaligned planes—picture a three-dimensional gyroscope rather than a two-dimensional vinyl record.

相比之下，Bae 的团队发现， 这个三合星系统中的恒星在多个扭曲和错位的平面上被尘埃云环绕——想象一下三维陀螺仪而不是二维黑胶唱片。