Subj : Turntables and LPs
To : All
From : Nightfox
Date : Tue Sep 14 2021 09:05 am
Re: Turntables and LPs
By: Ogg to Ed Vance on Sat Sep 11 2021 10:18 pm
A while ago, I saw something online about this ELP laser turntable:
https://www.elpj.com
It's a record player that uses a laser (rather than a stylus) to read the grooves on the disc. The advantage would be that since it doesn't make physical contact with the record, it won't wear out the record. Also, they say the sound should be really good since there shouldn't be any hiss from a stylus sliding across the record surface. Also, I think this turntable would be a good candidate to be used for digitizing records.
I've been curious to try one, but they're so expensive. They cost at least $10,000 (which seems a bit ridiculous to me).. Also, I've read some reviews saying the sound isn't as good as you might think, and that the laser will also pick up dust and translate it to audio, which isn't really a good thing; so the record would need to be very clean before being played in this player.
If I could find a laser turntable like that for cheap, I might be tempted to buy one and get into collecting records.
Nightfox
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