The 125 pound Record Weight

I like the look of a nice chunky industrial weight, not this one though as I don’t like neon colours anywhere round my system. I’m a warm glow kinda guy 😁 But I can understand why someone will like this device though. Lee

Does the strobe light on the weight make those zoetrope records look like they're moving?

I wonder if a similar experience will be had with those fancy CD players, like the Sony XA20-ES and the like. I always laughed as CD is a digital medium, it will either read the disc or not, so likely these pucks are snake oil esq.

It's amazing how much absolute worthless crap is marketed to the "audiophile" market. Thanks for your hilarious reporting on this. Once again, you "take one for the team" by buying something that is pretty much useless, but end up making an excellent video that makes me (and many others) laugh.

They are benefical when there is a little warping and help the record sit a bit flatter

I've happily watched with nodding affirmation while you debunked many (obviously) useless audio enhancement products. The CD trimmer, the ion whateverer... That is... until today. I may continue to use my record weight, but I'll have to do so dispossessed of the notion that it is improving the reproduction of the recording. This one hit close to home. Thanks for keeping it real.

Another 'tinned breakfast' item, gonna go off and shave a few cds now 🤣

Pretty sure I would drop it on my record whilst doing the strobe test.

You actually need the 'stabilizing outer ring clamp'... https://www.waynesaudio.com/product-page/turntable-outer-ring-for-vpi-clearaudio-basis-kronos-hanss-micro-seiki-music-lin

There are so many to choose from... https://www.turntablelab.com/collections/record-weight-45-adaptors

Rewatched this on TV this morning. One tried and true method of warping records is put it in the oven at 200° on a biscuit baking tray edge for 3 minutes. I got the recipe from a cooking book. For whatever reason I really enjoy seeing the wow & flutter meter. It's probably due to the number of years it has appeared in your videos.

Ah but it is an Oxygen Free Record weight? But if the record is warped then surely the weight(s) should be on the rim of the record to help flatten the record down, not in the center which may cause a slight dishing of the record. However for people who want something to help improve your records, can I suggest the TSL Chakra-matic 8000 (pat pending) which helps to re-balance your precious Vinyl's Chakras so help enable optimal listening pleasure. Only a snip at £694.28 plus VAT.

Never found a good way of flattening a record. Put one under a sheet of glass in sunlight for two weeks as I went on a summer holiday, and it did nothing at all. I often open the video as soon as it's posted, just to have in my History for later.

Great video, never knew these existed and now I know I don’t need one.

If nothing else, it's a premium paperweight. Audiophile-grade, no less.

Oh dear. I kinda knew that once Mat got his hands on the CD shaver it would only be a matter of time before we'd be seeing more examples of, um, left-field audio adjacent products. I say oh dear because at different times I was that soldier; slaving over Jimmy Hughes HiFi Choice columns and wanting so much to believe the performance of my endlessly crappy budget gear could be greatly improved by some new weirdness described using all the terms Mat mentioned in the video . . . and it's taken - frankly - an embarrassing amount of time to realise just how much of what went into the 'hi-fi' industry before the internet was very clever marketing (that term being responsible for a lot of heavy lifting). To be fair the, ahem, 'logic' of record weights sorta made sense, coming as they did from the parallel universe to that of the extraordinarily heavy turntable platter on a belt-driven deck because, well, intertia innit. Back then you started to lose me at the next level down the iceberg - cable lifters, and 'magic' plugs and sockets. But for me, the undisputed kings of this stuff were/are Shun Mook. I'm sure Mat's heard of them but if you haven't take a look at their document setting out the 'additional' applications of their Mpingo discs: yup, it's as mad as it sounds: http://shunmook.com/userinfo/Shun%20Mook%20Application%20of%20the%20Mpingo%20Disc.pdf

Audio Technica’s poor translation from Japanese in these days of AI translation is actually quite charming. I’m now off to design and patent a vacuum turntable to suck your warped disks flat…

Thoroughly enjoyed this one Matt. The 'AMSR' intro looks like an exercise in filming and editing and is quite beautiful. (Yeah the joke works!) I do enjoy the 'debunking audiophile stuff' ones. It's your true calling.

I remember having flexi discs when I were young. Some had a circle near the middle to put a penny. That worked fine so I think 600g is a bit over the top. I have a weight but never use it as I notice no difference with or without.

I use a 170g hockey puck I drilled in the center.

When commercial radio broadcasters used turntables did they use weights like that? I imagine that sort of thing might be useful for flexi discs.

Record weight efficacy not withstanding, I appreciated the effort put into and enjoyed the editing of the prologue

Heh! This reminded me of sometime in the early eighties when I left a Huey Lewis and The News 45rpm single on my record player for - probably - an entire summer. When I finally noticed, it had warped so badly it obstructed the tone arm so the pickup couldn't even touch half the record. Oops.

I'm always scared of being a "bad" viewer for channels I like. If I start watching a video but stop 30 seconds in to take care of something, does me watching it in full later negate that? Does watching in pieces and not in one sitting count as a full view? Is it better to click on the video in my subscription feed, in the recommendations, or directly in the channel? Is it better to watch through Patreon before it goes live, or on its air date? Does liking every video help, or do the likes get watered down and should be used sparingly instead? Am I just placing too much importance on myself as one lone viewer?

Not a glowing review.. more of a PSA

Would have loved to see you measure your wow & flutter test record both with and without this weight. Even on a quality turntable, if the theory is true, then the weight should make a small but measurable difference. Also, how silly is it that you can't use the stroboscopic disc while the weight is *on* the record. The added weight will increase friction in the system, which will affect the speed, so you'd really want to calibrate your turntable speed with the weight on it. And moreover, if they're going to charge £125 for this thing, they could put a smartphone-type accelerometer/magnetometer sensor IC in it, and the light could shift colors depending on whether you need to speed up or slow down the turntable to hit exactly one of the common speeds.

This was one of those rare occasions when my yelling at the screen actually worked - I was, of course, shouting at you to try a clamp instead of a weight - and then you did! I have one or two records with a very slight warp that do benefit from being clamped down, but not something I ever otherwise do. As to a rechargeable weight with coloured lights for £125 - there's one born every minute, as they say. Great video, have a good weekend, Mat...

From the title I thought you meant 56Kg, which is probably the same as the platter on some high end decks.

Once again a very interesting video about a product I have no desire to purchase!

My best video is only 59% after 30 seconds ☹️ Mind you, around 90% of people move away within 15 seconds when I speak to them in the street, so for me, YouTube is a win!

A classic cutting through the bullshit Techmoan video. I love it.

Cool. Hummingguru also has record cleaning devices. Another cool thing to try? 😂 I also have a record weight. It has a spirit level on top, which is quite useful. Beyond that... Never really noticed any difference.. Yours does look a lot cooler though! And that for only 6 times the price (or so)! Such great value for money! I loved the video. Some smart reasoning and humour. What more would you want I did see a $100k turntable, which has a perforated platter and a pump that sucks the air out underneath. So the vacuum pulls the record down making it perfectly flat. Now THAT should work! One slight disadvantage is the huge noisy pump that needs to go somewhere. But I suppose if you can spend $100k on a turntable..

• Why we Americans use 'z' instead of 's' in certain words confuzzles me. • The issue here is pretty vs. practical. It seems to me whenever a company puts a priority on the pretty vs. the practical they put a premium on the prices. It's really P. • Nonetheless I always wondered what record player weights did for the sound quality, if anything. Thank you for explaining that there are very vague benefits for using one. I do like the strobe RPM test, but the phone app tester is easier and faster. • I really like the video's opening sequence. I admit that I was hoping there was a new method of ultrasonic record cleaning when I read the video title. I started using the anti-static pistol on my records after you used it in a prior video. Here's hoping your roof repairs aren't driving you mad. Take care 🤍.

I have an extremely warped copy of Revolver, and the Magical Mystery Tour EPs (both probably Dutch first pressings) I have are also heavily warped. All play fine, without any problems on my Pro-Ject turntable 😅. I always use that arguments that vinyl lasts longer than CDs 😜. The lighting looks cool though, but definitely not worth that amount of money...

I can see helping a bit an older machine that has decent power but is no longer running smooth. But even in that case you'd be better served by a new mat, new belt and a few drops of lubricant (and would be cheaper too).

Flippin'eck! Started the video here and got some weird bloke talking Dutch to me. Had to switch to the YouTube app to get the original sound track. No idea what YT was thinking, and I couldn't switch languages here.

Back in the 80s Richer Sounds sold a very cheap lightweight plastic record stabiliser which gripped the spindle (due to a rubber centre) and helped secure flexidiscs when playing them. It worked well and I only used it for Flexidiscs. Try cleaning a Flexidisc without securing it and the disc itself moves with the cleaner!

Obviously the HumminGuru record weight doesn't work as well as one might wish, but the version 2.0 will undoubtedly be improved with a the new smartphone app which will solve all those problems.😉

I own a Technics SL-10. This has a built-in hockey puck "clamp" that dubs as a strobe. I can supposedly play an album upside-down according to the then ads but I never had a need to.

The lava orange glow looks really cozy. I'm just disappointed it doesn't play MP3s.

But does putting it on turn metal into heavy metal? :) I actually might have a use for that clamp thing. My record player, which is older than me, has a lot of momentum. When it autostops the record will keep turning for a solid minute if left alone. I stop it by pushing down on the label or just picking it up while still turning but that clamp would give me a surface to stop the record without rubbing the label.

Cinematic opening 😁. Hyperbolic paraboloid….. IYKYK…

Now, what happens if your record player is on the washing machine on a spin cycle? Or maybe on a boat. Or both. (That's tongue-in-cheek if that's not obvious!)

I have a record weight for flexis (I have... far too many), and to be honest it barely even makes a difference there. It's only really needed for the most unruly ones. There is a built-in spirit level, so that's useful at least - I keep it with my Reloop Spin portable, where it fits very snugly under the lid.

From a US perspective, I was staring at this thumbnail asking "How on Earth could that little thing weigh 125 pounds?" LOL

You notice how Y.T.ers are now telling you that something special will happen at the end… “so, be sure to watch to the end, or you’ll end up missing it. In the end. Right.” What will make my records sound better is some anti-aging spray, or pills, or whatever. Maybe they should claim that the special light is actually an, “Anti. Aging. Radiated. Obfuscation. Nanotechnology,” or “The Aaron Effect.” That’d be worth 120 pounds.

The high under 30s stat is likely due to a very annoying YouTube mouse over video thumbnail quirk. To demonstrate, leave your mouse on any video thumbnail on the homepage for 10+ seconds, then go into your watch history. I regularly get videos I never actually watched in my history as a result of my mouse hovering some thumbnail while deciding what to watch next.

I’m hungry. I thought it was the HalloumiGuru.

I'm shocked. When I read 'turntable speed test' on the box I was sure it would have an accelerometer and Bluetooth connection to an app.

Being a US viewer when I saw "pound" written out I was thinking that seems excessive. Is it made of tungsten? Then I remembered it was Techmoan.

I understand this intro was done as a bit of a joke, but it's genuinely a really nice, different introduction and display of the whole hifi system.

another potential source of the numbers is that i always start the video in the patreon player before immediately clicking the youtube button to watch it in the web player

I wonder if I unintentionally contribute to the number who abandon after a few seconds. I often click the link on Patreon so that the video opens; then I close it and find it in my history on the TV app. I know there's a correct way to link a mobile device to the TV app but for reasons I can't fully explain, I don't like one being controlled by the other.

I read the title and I thought you were reviewing a record weight that literally weighed 125 pounds. I was looking forward to watching you place it without crushing your turntable.

Great now I need to watch the first 10 seconds of this video 500,000 times to make you chuckle, there goes my whole weekend