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What Hi-Fi?
What Hi-Fi?
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Joe Svetlik

"Vinyl records will be around forever" – the Tiny Vinyl founders on the black disc's enduring appeal

Four Tiny Vinyl 4-inch discs of varying colours fanned out while being held between a thumb and first two fingers of a right hand.

Halloween might have been and gone, but nothing embodies the spirit of the living dead quite like vinyl. Abandoned by Sony in 1989 in favour of CDs, the format was expected to go quietly into the night, but due to its superior sound quality and consumer disaffection with digital platforms, vinyl has lived on, growing stronger with each passing year.

And now it comes in an adorable 4-inch size, the format's first physical change in decades. Tiny Vinyl is exactly what it says on the tin: a vinyl record, but smaller. Due to their tiny size, the discs can only hold a single track on each side. But they play on a regular turntable with no specialist equipment required. And for collectability, they really are hard to beat.

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