Music lovers are buying vinyl records like they haven't for 25 years. Unfortunately, many don't get enough musical vitamins from vinyl. The reason is that their record player is not working properly. We want to do something about this during the record fair on March 11.

If words like tracking angle, tonearm pitch and mechanical decoupling don't quite jog your memory, don't despair.

You're a child of the digital age. You've gotten used to your CD player taking care of that sort of thing... and the music from your phone doesn't even know those terms.

The quality of the sound is up to you

The record player is a technology from a bygone era when people didn't really care about anything. This means that people cared about buying the right pick-up, for example. They read geeky trade magazines (made of paper!) and experts gave their opinions on the merits of one kind of record mat and another kind of tonearm.

And there was a good reason for the geekiness.

There was a big (and audible) difference in how a record player was built. There was plenty of sound hidden in the deep grooves, for those who had the energy to dig it out.

Which brings me to today's ear-opener: it's still like that!

The turntable is still a mechanical player. It can still be built and adjusted in a lot of ways and it's up to you to get the best out of it.

Unfortunately, few people know how to fix these things, which is why many of today's turntables are in a sorry state. They sound only half as good as they should, and the music doesn't leap out of the fine grooves like a clear spring brook.

That's why you need to meet Boris.

Meet Boris at the record fair on March 11

Boris works in the Frederiksberg shop HiFi Forum. You can meet him during the record fair (from 10:00 to 13:30), where he'll be more than happy to reveal the mysteries of the turntable so you can get more music out of the grooves at home.

Look forward to it.

See the full program of the record fair here.

Hope to see you around