Laser Vinyl Turntables

Laser vinyl turntables.

You can t replicate the sound of analogue as well in a digital format. A laser turntable or optical turntable is a phonograph that plays standard lp records and other gramophone records using laser beams as the pickup instead of using a stylus as in conventional turntables. I remember the laser disc s of the 80 s. Unlike a traditional stylus the laser turntable achieves the highest fidelity from vinyl records with no wear on your precious collection.

And there s much more of a interesting retro factor. For many turntables are the way to play back music. Amounts shown in italicized text are for items listed in currency other than canadian dollars and are approximate conversions to canadian. They were a disaster although they were like huge cds and very heavy almost useless they were.

The only commercially available laser turntable initially was the elp lt 1xa which was first sold in 1987 for 20 500. Lasers were first introduced for reading vinyl groove information almost 40 years ago. A pop i doubt too many people will get one. The purest music just like the master tapes you ve never heard.

Though the idea for using a laser beam to trace the data engraved in a phonograph record s grooves dates back to the early 1980s it still seems a bit sci fi to put an lp in the drawer of what looks like an old fashioned laserdisc. It was developed by the japanese company bsr.