Laser Vinyl Turntables

A pop i doubt too many people will get one.

Laser vinyl turntables.

And there s much more of a interesting retro factor. Amounts shown in italicized text are for items listed in currency other than canadian dollars and are approximate conversions to canadian. Unlike a traditional stylus the laser turntable achieves the highest fidelity from vinyl records with no wear on your precious collection. They were a disaster although they were like huge cds and very heavy almost useless they were.

The first functioning laser turntable the lt 1 was made by finial technology and had a projected street price of 3750. The only commercially available laser turntable initially was the elp lt 1xa which was first sold in 1987 for 20 500. 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.

Lasers were first introduced for reading vinyl groove information almost 40 years ago. It was developed by the japanese company bsr. I remember the laser disc s of the 80 s. 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.

Because of the use of lasers these turntables can only play black vinyl not a huge shortcoming. For many turntables are the way to play back music.