This looks interesting if you have quite a bit of green to slosh about.
I remember seeing the idea on Tomorrow's World back in the early 80's I think.
Looks interesting all the same.. although they are pretty fugly.
http://elpj.com/
This looks interesting if you have quite a bit of green to slosh about.
I remember seeing the idea on Tomorrow's World back in the early 80's I think.
Looks interesting all the same.. although they are pretty fugly.
http://elpj.com/
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I seem to recall having seen that sort of deck advertised as being for library use.
Rob.
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This has been around for years, and years. I recall HiFi News reviewing it back in the early 90's and I think Stereophile have, as has The Absolute Sound too + others and the upshot was 'very sensitive to any dirt' more so than a conventional record player.
Here is an article on a newer version, same outcome - last paragraph
http://eandt.theiet.org/magazine/201...get-groovy.cfm
Love the look of the newer one.
Regards Neil
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I'm Richard.
The one in the '80s or '90s that Ken Kessler kept harping on about was the Finial. It eventually made it into production for about £10,000, IIRC, and read every speck of dust as a music signal. Not a great success.
Unless my memory has gone completely, which is quite possible.
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I'm Alan.
You are quite right awkwardbydesign, I had an ELP Laser player on trial for about six months trying to sell them in the 1980's, I even tried to get it on the James Bond film Golden Eye, it was £15,000 then, and it was good at playing records, including 78's, even cracked ones, but good is about the best I could say about it, it did read every spec of dust and tiny scratches as well.
I told the distributor that a clean record on a good player was better and a considerable amount cheaper.
TBH I'm surprised it's still going, for me it was design over function, interesting but that was about it IMHO.
Cheers Al
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I thought laser turntables were called CD players.
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