Laser Vinyl Turntables

You can t replicate the sound of analogue as well in a digital format.

Laser vinyl turntables.

It was developed by the japanese company bsr. Find great deals on ebay for laser turntable and laser record player. Lasers were first introduced for reading vinyl groove information almost 40 years ago. The purest music just like the master tapes you ve never heard.

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. 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. They were a disaster although they were like huge cds and very heavy almost useless they were. For many turntables are the way to play back music.

Because of the use of lasers these turntables can only play black vinyl not a huge shortcoming. A pop i doubt too many people will get one. The first functioning laser turntable the lt 1 was made by finial technology and had a projected street price of 3750. I remember the laser disc s of the 80 s.

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