This $40 record player accessory flattens your records for a way better sound — even if it does look like a hockey puck

Vinyl records can be tricksy. You might have the best record player that money can buy, equipped with a stylus that would make the angels cry, connected to audio equipment that would make the wealthiest audiophile wince, and that warped copy of 1997’s Spiceworld you bought from a second-hand record shop will still sound off.

That’s where a record weight comes into play. It helps flatten records so that you can be rid of all the sound strangeness that comes from lightly warped records. I’ve got one here…