Some people still claim that records sound better than cds. Those people are also known as freaks. And what happens when such freaks have too much money? They buy stuff like this!
Instead of a needle, this record player uses five lasers to scan the grooves. This produces a better quality sound and doesn’t cause any wear on the record itself. The price of this little gizmo? Fourteen thousand smackers! And that’s only for the record player. Add an amplifier and speakers (and with equipment like this, you’re not gonna use any kind of amp or speakers) and you easily reach several tens of thousands of dollars.
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These laser players are great, many archivists around the world are using these players to mass produce rare music so it can be more available. It is so popular at the Library of Congress that they actually limit your useage per day and per month. Its too bad they wernt more affordable. They do sound as good as a cd if not better.
If you take the data stream through one of several professional digital mastering devices and compare the data stream to standard cd 44.1khz @16bits, their is actually more information available from the analog wave form on an LP than a cd, this is a point of fact.
Their is one problem for those of us with good ears though, you can actually hear the factory process of records. When a record is cut their is a wobble, a frequency that is embedded into the disk while the disk is being cut at the start of the process. Its a seismic thump or a slow wave. I went to the length of cutting a record without music on it to “hear” the innate noise of the cutting process. Just like a purley blank Casset or reel to reel produces a slight hiss, a recording of nothingness upon a record has a frequency that matches the motor of the device.
If perhaps the motor was isolated so its noise could not be transmitted into a vibration this could be eliminated, but shrugs no one is that insane, perhaps xcpt me.
DVD audio and sacd though is beyond the best LP player, digital or analog.
My only wish is that a company would come out with an analog optical audio disk, very similar to the original analog Laser-Disks. Imagine the perfection of an actual pure wave etched into disks of aluminum underneath plastic, and only hit by a laser. With the advances in Laser size im sure that an analog laser etched disk could easily contain dolby 5.1/7.1 in a reasonable disk size format.
I wonder why some mad genius hasnt come up with such a device yet, mixing the best of analog and high technology.
Their would be no equal, not CD, not SACD, or even DVD-a be it 24bit/96k or 24bit/192k