Laser Vinyl Record Reader

The new elp laser turntable plays records without touching them the catch.

Laser vinyl record reader.

Watch the video below to hear elp s ceo explain more about the analog digital. 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. You like your vinyl records but don t like the fact that you re killing them. The laser only reads from black vinyl records unfortunately since lasers are made of light and transparent or colored discs tend to let light pass through.

Vinyl records are played with a needle. The purest music just like the master tapes you ve never heard. A 15 000 price tag. 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.

It only works with black records and it is apparently very sensitive to dirt. 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. The laser turntable is still reading the vinyl in an analog format whereas a cd is read in digital format. This mechanical transmission of sound is not unlike the technique thomas edison first used to record and reproduce so.

Unlike a traditional stylus the laser turntable achieves the highest fidelity from vinyl records with no wear on your precious collection. At 1200 dpi this corresponds to 4800 dpi. 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.