Warped record


I just received a record from Amazon, beautifully packaged and protected for a change.  However the record is warped.  
Question is will it affect the sound and/or damage the cartridge?

rvpiano

Showing 2 responses by czarivey

there are various types of warps, but I would classify them to playable and unplayable.

Bowl-warp is more-likely playable with screw-on clamp only on one "bottom" side. The other side of bawl-warp is going to slide your stylus possibly damaging both vinyl surface and cantilever

If there's warp with creasing, definitely no go.

I've got one of the later pressings of Bill Evans and exchanged this record twice all the time with some degree of warp. 

A playable warp would be the one not going too extreme

@ghdprentice I forgot to mention warps that flat out once on the platter, but visible from the edge view. Those definitely won't compromise any playback.