Throw away the LP12 and the needle?
Posted by: Geoff P on 05 September 2003
Well here it is the next great step in "analog" music making.
http://www.smartdev.com/LT/laserturntable.html
So have any of our brave american contributors heard it or know anybody who has one.
Mind you at 10,000 $ and up it is a little expensive so I don't expect any body will be throwing their LP12 away yet
regards
GEOFFP
http://www.smartdev.com/LT/laserturntable.html
So have any of our brave american contributors heard it or know anybody who has one.
Mind you at 10,000 $ and up it is a little expensive so I don't expect any body will be throwing their LP12 away yet
regards
GEOFFP
Posted on: 05 September 2003 by BLT
This is pretty old hat, I remember articles about this machine in HFN in the late 80's. Seems it took them a hell of a long time to get it working!
Posted on: 05 September 2003 by Gunnar Jansson
Yep.
And from what I´ve read, Stewie Wonder own´s one.
Gunnar
And from what I´ve read, Stewie Wonder own´s one.
Gunnar
Posted on: 05 September 2003 by Tarquin Maynard - Portly
And how would it cope with dusty / dirty vinyl??
Regards
Mike
On the Yellow Brick Road and happy
Regards
Mike
On the Yellow Brick Road and happy
Posted on: 05 September 2003 by Rob Doorack
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And how would it cope with dusty / dirty vinyl?
Apparently dirty records completely flummox the laser turntable which is why each one comes with a VPI record vacuum. My memory of the reviews of the thing is that its sound is comparable to a decent mid - level turntable. It's probably best suited to libraries with irreplacable rare recordings.
Posted on: 06 September 2003 by Geoff P
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And how would it cope with dusty / dirty vinyl?
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Apparently dirty records completely flummox the laser turntable which is why each one comes with a VPI record vacuum. My memory of the reviews of the thing is that its sound is comparable to a decent mid - level turntable. It's probably best suited to libraries with irreplacable rare recordings
OK so it's a plot to sell their 1000$ record cleaning system aswell.
Clever
GEOFFP
Posted on: 07 September 2003 by Rob Doorack
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it's a plot to sell their 1000$ record cleaning system
The price of a VPI 16.5 is half that, actually.
It appears that the new US distributor of the ELP turntable no longer includes a record vacuum in the price.
Posted on: 08 September 2003 by Greg Beatty
...I recall a lot of hoopla being made over a linear tracking turntable.
The rod the tonearm moved on had holes in it and there was an air pump pushing air through the holes. A bit like the air hockey tables that were taking over arcades at the time.
I heard the thing sounded drivel due to all the vibration from the air pump. Sure looked sexy though.
- GregB
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The rod the tonearm moved on had holes in it and there was an air pump pushing air through the holes. A bit like the air hockey tables that were taking over arcades at the time.
I heard the thing sounded drivel due to all the vibration from the air pump. Sure looked sexy though.
- GregB
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Posted on: 08 September 2003 by Geoff P
I remember the Japanese fell in love with Linear tracking turntables some uumph! decades ago.
Sony & Akai spring to mind. Of course their obssesion seemd to be the reduction in space they could acheive. They made turntables that were smaller than the diameter of the LP so that when in play it stuck out the sides of the lid and waved to you as it went round.
The serious technical argument was that the needle was always subjected to the same angular forces so that anti-skate bias was unecessary and tracking was constant speed.
It was the era of the all-in one home hifi kit which had slots formed across the front panel between control knob sections to kid you into thinking the owner had genuine seperate hifi components. If you looked inside there was an almost empty box with a PWB in the bottom and the occasional wire running up to the control knobs.
A lot of us were forced into this kit by SWMBO because it did'nt have all those nasty cables behind it for the spiders to use to construct their webs.
To the average house spider the typical wiring maze of the kit in use by forum members here must be approaching luxury living.
regards
GEOFFP
Sony & Akai spring to mind. Of course their obssesion seemd to be the reduction in space they could acheive. They made turntables that were smaller than the diameter of the LP so that when in play it stuck out the sides of the lid and waved to you as it went round.
The serious technical argument was that the needle was always subjected to the same angular forces so that anti-skate bias was unecessary and tracking was constant speed.
It was the era of the all-in one home hifi kit which had slots formed across the front panel between control knob sections to kid you into thinking the owner had genuine seperate hifi components. If you looked inside there was an almost empty box with a PWB in the bottom and the occasional wire running up to the control knobs.
A lot of us were forced into this kit by SWMBO because it did'nt have all those nasty cables behind it for the spiders to use to construct their webs.
To the average house spider the typical wiring maze of the kit in use by forum members here must be approaching luxury living.
regards
GEOFFP