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Interesting development of the standard turntable, though the aspect that it still utilises a stylus that makes contact with the record is the area I'm looking
by Zenst 8y ago
Interesting development of the standard turntable, though the aspect that it still utilises a stylus that makes contact with the record is the area I'm looking at some technological love.
With that, a laser or photo sensor that reads the record surface would be an advancement and preserve records from wear and tear that a stylus needle will induce.
Maybe the next version will embrace such technology.
Reference - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_turntable https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_turntable
- LeoPanthera 8y agoI've listened to several laser turntables. The audio quality is quite bad. The main problem is that a stylus, in the process of traveling through the groove, pushes dust and dirt out of the way, so that it can make direct contact with the record. The laser does no such thing, and so there is significantly more noise in the playback, unless your record is perfectly clean, which is essentially impossible. It also will not play records which are colored or transparent. Only black will work.
- Zenst 8y agoThank you, the aspect about dust and dirt would be an easy overlook (as I did) and one which could affect quality. Though I'm sure an issue that can be engineered away.