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Perhaps a laser could be used to first reliably replicate the original pattern of an LP into digital form, then one could feed that pattern to a real tonearm ne
by jnurmine 6y ago
Perhaps a laser could be used to first reliably replicate the original pattern of an LP into digital form, then one could feed that pattern to a real tonearm needle somehow, vibrating it suitably, in a nondestructive manner.
Like some kind of "fake vinyl", except the actual musical data could be downloadable.
This way one could stream/download vinyls while still playing the music with all the small imperfections which create warmth and the vinyl sound (=crackles of noise and static and wow and flutter and the harmonic distortions and so on).
- sgtnoodle 6y agoI imagine someone with a signal processing background could design a suitable digital filter to emulate the effects of various tone arms. Designing the filter might require cutting a special tone record so that the frequency response can be measured. Alternatively, the "hip" thing to do might be to train a neural network on a bunch of old record recordings, and then pipe whatever you want through the resulting model.