The Lowdown
Available in black as well as the white version reviewed here, the Glorious Record Rack 330 is a good value, attractive piece of furniture that’s hard to find elsewhere. It has a mixture of front-facing upper display and more conventional shelves below, and is a simple but effective way to show off a relatively small vinyl collection. Recommended.
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First Impressions / Setting up
The Glorious Record Rack 330 comes flat packed with simple instructions and all parts labelled correctly. You just need a screwdriver and a hammer, and it took me about an hour to assemble it (and trust me, I have no special skills in these areas).
Once finished, I had a medium-height, attractive piece of furniture, ready to take its place in our family living room, and to move my assorted records and other music-related items from the bookshelves onto.
In Use
At home I like to keep a record player, and a very carefully curated and small collection of records that really mean something to me from across the decades. But until now, these records had been on a bookshelf making them hard to browse and hard to show off. The Glorious Record Rack 330 immediately fixed that.
Tucking into a suitable corner of the living room, it allowed me to put my absolute favourites on the top, where anyone can flick through them and where I can quickly find something to play, while tucking the rest of the vinyl lower down.
As I don’t have too much vinyl anymore, I also use the lower shelves for box sets, a handful of CDs and some of my coffee table music books, giving me a really nice display unit for my varied music-related items.
A nice touch is that Glorious provides small wedges to make the back panel really stiff and secure, so that the weight of the vinyl being put in and out of the rack doesn’t rattle it or loosen it, which I appreciated.
Conclusion
I suspect like many people around my age, I have an enduring fondness for vinyl, and while as a DJ I use digital music exclusively, there’s something about putting a record on which puts you in a frame of mind to enjoy it – something that’s missed when pressing play on a streaming service.
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I looked quite hard for the kind of shelf I could use for my records. There was nothing I could assemble from IKEA furniture to do this, and I couldn’t find a widely available, reasonably good value option anywhere else. So I took a chance on the Glorious Record Rack 330, and I’m glad I did.
For a relatively small music collection, it’s perfect. For me, the killer feature is the sloping, front facing section at the top which can hold maybe 80 pieces of vinyl and show them off really nicely. Does the job, and I’m happy with it.
