Laser Vinyl Record Reader

It only works with black records and it is apparently very sensitive to dirt.

Laser vinyl record reader.

Any speck of dirt however minute is read by the lasers along with the music. Vinyl records are played with a needle. Unlike a traditional stylus the laser turntable achieves the highest fidelity from vinyl records with no wear on your precious collection. Total elapsed remaining time.

Elp laser turntable lt 2xa and rme fireface 800 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. The laser cutter cannot make such precise cuts because the width of the beam is too large so the grooves on my records are about 1 2 orders of magnitude larger in every dimension than these grooves. This mechanical transmission of sound is not unlike the technique thomas edison first used to record and reproduce so. A record that runs for 22 minutes has 720 groves across a given radius and therefore a grove is 4800 720 or 6 66 pixels per grove.

A vinyl record has a label of typically 3 to 4 inches and it is safe to assume the groves are 4 inches on either side. A 15 000 price tag. Unlike a relatively massive diamond stylus which plows through a record s grooves like the prow of a ship the elp s tiny laser beam styli have next to no mass and cannot move dust particles out of their way. The new elp laser turntable plays records without touching them the catch.

This is a close up image of a vinyl record taken with an electron microscope. Automatic read in read out programming max. Record player popsky 3 speed turntable bluetooth vinyl record player with speaker portable lp vinyl player vinyl to mp3 recording 3 5mm aux rca headphone jack 4 3 out of 5 stars 240 66 99 66. 15 music forward and back scan 2 speed forward and back search.

Drawer system open close play. Contact free 5 beams optical record player. The laser turntable employs patented technology that produces phenomenal fidelity while never physically touching the record thus eliminating the deterioration to the album s surface inflicted by conventional turntables. At 1200 dpi this corresponds to 4800 dpi.