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Record Players

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Round, grooved slabs with punchy inner labels and some heft to them. Hundreds of parallel lines forming bar codes of color on shelves or in crates. Rich, warm sound with crackles and pops of character spreading across the room. …

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Sound Mind

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It’s a rainy Sunday afternoon, and Chris Della Ragione has been lowering the needle over jazz and reggae records…

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House of Wax

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Never more the record store—not in New Haven, anyway. But Hamden’s Replay Records, about six miles up Whitney Avenue, keeps resetting its needle six days a week, with a fondness for grooved-vinyl 33s and 45s and the…

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Going on Records

CDs at Exile on Main Street

A decade or two ago, talking about Exile on Main Street might have involved describing what made the record shop different from others in the region.

That discussion doesn’t really apply anymore. Competitors…

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