Laser Vinyl Record Reader

Watch the video below to hear elp s ceo explain more about the analog digital.

Laser vinyl record reader.

Unlike a traditional stylus the laser turntable achieves the highest fidelity from vinyl records with no wear on your precious collection. The laser turntable is still reading the vinyl in an analog format whereas a cd is read in digital format. 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. 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 player press a play button on a remote and hear music come out of your loudspeakers.

Vinyl records are played with a needle. 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 although these turntables use laser pickups the same as compact disc players it s important to note the signal remains in the analog realm and is never digitized. A 15 000 price tag. The new elp laser turntable plays records without touching them the catch.

But they say the lasers read above the needle groove damage to get a virginal playback of played smooth vinyl and you can set broken record pieces together to play a previously unplayable record. This mechanical transmission of sound is not unlike the technique thomas edison first used to record and reproduce so. You like your vinyl records but don t like the fact that you re killing them. 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.

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. It only works with black records and it is apparently very sensitive to dirt. The purest music just like the master tapes you ve never heard.