Question: Where do you find a lead out?
Answer: Towards the center, at the end of the groove

Question: Where were records made with raised label areas?
Answer: reducing the risk of damage

Question: Are longer recordings, as found in operas, made for use with auto-changing systems?
Answer: interleaved across several 10-inch or 12-inch discs for use with auto-changing mechanisms

Question: Do grooves on records touch when stacked?
Answer: allowing records to be stacked onto each other without the delicate grooves coming into contact

Question: Do records touch when in auto changers?
Answer: Auto-changers included a mechanism to support a stack

Question: What is the most used material for modern audiophile vinyl releases?
Answer: New or "virgin" heavy/heavyweight (180–220 g) vinyl

Question: What is the material preference of collectors?
Answer: heavyweight vinyl

Question: How does the manufacturing process differ between heavyweight and normal vinyl?
Answer: Manufacturing processes are identical

Question: Would would a non filled area in a vinyl press cause when listening to a record?
Answer: grinding or scratching sound

Question: Which pressing of vinyl require more attention to detail, lightweight or heavyweight?
Answer: lightweight records requires more care

Question: What is an effect of using worn molds when casting records?
Answer: The "orange peel" effect

Question: What is the expected finish of a vinyl record?
Answer: mirror-like

Question: On what frequencies is an orange peel effect most noticeable?
Answer: lower frequency range

Question: What is the effect on a copy if a master as an orange peel effect?
Answer: there is no ill effect

Question: What material is on a direct metal mastering disc?
Answer: copper

Question: What is the two step process?
Answer: "father" is removed of its silver and converted into a stamper

Question: What is the limitation of the two step process?
Answer: limited to a few hundred vinyl pressings

Question: Which is preferred the two step or three step process?
Answer: three-step

Question: Which have stronger structures the father or son mold?
Answer: sons

Question: What can increase the output of a stamper mold?
Answer: quality of the vinyl is high

Question: What was a known issue of using shellac to make records?
Answer: Breakage was very common

Question: In which novel does 'Whiteman's Lady of the Evening" record get broken?
Answer: John O'Hara novel, Appointment in Samarra

Question: In Blackboard Jungle what record breaking mention is made?
Answer: teacher's collection of 78 rpm jazz records is smashed

Question: What causes clicks and pops on vinyl records?
Answer: Dust and scratches

Question: What is the cause of lock grooves on vinyl records?
Answer: Dust and scratches

Question: Where does the saying "Like a broken record" originate?
Answer: locked groove

Question: How easily do vinyl records break?
Answer: Vinyl records do not break easily

Question: What is a common damage to vinyl records?
Answer: easily scratched.

Question: What causes warping in vinyl records?
Answer: heat, improper storage, exposure to sunlight, or manufacturing defects

Question: What is a cause of once per revolution pitch variation?
Answer: warp, or from a spindle hole that was not precisely centered

Question: What method was used to protect a vinyl record?
Answer: place the LP in a paper or plastic inner cover

Question: What were often found with a paper outter cover and no inner cover?
Answer: Singles

Question: What happens if a vinyl comes with a bit of warp?
Answer: A small degree of warp was common,

Question: When is distortion most common on a gramophone record?
Answer: Distortion towards the end of the side

Question: What happens as a record wears?
Answer: Distortion

Question: What is a drawback of using gramophones?
Answer: fidelity steadily declines as playback progresses

Question: How much vinyl can be found at the start of an LP?
Answer: 510 mm

Question: Where can you find only 200-210mm of vinyl?
Answer: ending of the groove

Question: What would be a cause of low frequency sounds when listening?
Answer: warped disk

Question: What is a feature many stereos contain to fight back against unwanted noises?
Answer: subsonic filter

Question: What is a sounds commonly heard when listening to a vinyl that is unintentional.
Answer: Tonearm skating

Question: Which frequencies are you most likely to hear tonearm skating?
Answer: frequencies below about 20 Hz

Question: Are there any visual signs of tracking when listening to a record?
Answer: cones can sometimes be seen to vibrate with the subsonic tracking

Question: What is a limitation of low frequency recordings?
Answer: limiting the playing time

Question: What kinds of unwanted sounds are often heard at high frequencies?
Answer: hiss, pops, and ticks

Question: What is done during recordings to help reduce unwanted sounds?
Answer: amplitude of low frequencies is reduced

Question: What is a benefit of using equalization devices?
Answer: problems can be reduced

Question: What is done to high frequency  sounds to lessen sound issues?
Answer: amplitude at high frequencies is increased

Question: Whom found that they can make musical instruments sound more natural with an amplifier boost at the turnover point?
Answer: G. H. Miller

Question: What is found when a complementary boost is used at the bass turnover point?
Answer: reproduction was more realistic

Question: When frequency in the treble increases what happens to the recording amplitude?
Answer: recording amplitude decreased

Question: What happens when frequency decreases in the bass?
Answer: recording amplitude increased

Question: Whom found Wente-style condenser microphones helpful?
Answer: P. G. A. H. Voigt

Question: How were Wente-Style condenser microphones helpful?
Answer: pre-emphasis in the recording

Question: When was a pre-emphasis most useful?
Answer: above 1,000 Hz

Question: On which recording types were pre-emphasis used most in the 1920s?
Answer: 78 rpm and 33 1⁄3 rpm

Question: In which Era was this finding most significant?
Answer: 1925 era

Question: What was the industry standard in Europe for record equalization?
Answer: there was no industry standard

Question: In which country was the treble roll off greater?
Answer: US

Question: Which country prefers a bass turnover setting of 250-300 Hz?
Answer: Europe

Question: What was the industry standard on equalization practices?
Answer: there was no industry standard

Question: Which country used the most varied equalization practices?
Answer: US

Question: How far back did records show the art of sound recordings?
Answer: 1925

Question: How was standardization prior to 1942?
Answer: considered a proprietary art

Question: Around what time period was there an attempt made to standardize recordings?
Answer: 1942–1949

Question: Who made the move to standardize recordings?
Answer: National Association of Broadcasters

Question: When were recording standards officially released?
Answer: 1949

Question:  Which recording types were effected by the imposed industry standards?
Answer: laterally and vertically cut records, principally transcriptions.

Question: What was one issue of a lack of industry standards?
Answer: Broadcasters were faced with having to adapt daily to the varied recording

Question: What is the NAB?
Answer: National Association of Broadcasters

Question: What bass settings were needed to eliminate hum?
Answer: below 100 Hz

Question: What helped cause the most life like sound?
Answer: using a complementary inverse curve

Question: How did the NBC Othacoustic curve relate to the NAB curve?
Answer: remarkably similar

Question: What was a benefit to broadcasters of recording standards?
Answer: programming sounded more lifelike.

Question: How far back could these recording practices be traced?
Answer: 1925

Question: What were the recording standards based off from?
Answer: long-held recording practices