There’d still be a market for optical vinyl readers — a playback mechanism that didn’t degrade your mint copies of old LPs would be treasured by a lot of people

There’d still be a market for optical vinyl readers — a playback mechanism that didn’t degrade your mint copies of old LPs would be treasured by a lot of people. The old laser turntables never caught on due to the expense — $10,000 a few decades ago, in those dollars at the time — and due to dust and other imperfections causing severe audio glitches that wouldn’t show up or would be less severe with a stylus. These problems should be solvable with current technology, though.