Standing on the headland taking in the scene.

[reddragdiva]

"If people spent 1/10th as much on music as they did on corsets for instance, you wouldn`t see LJ full of bands whinging that the scene is dead." (markeris, on the goth scene, from here.)

I can hardly believe how much money I used to spend on records and how little I do now. Not that I spend it on clothes either. Nor am I making it up in MP3s. Mostly I'm just wishing I had my old vinyl here. With a laser turntable.

Discuss.

(By the way, full points to mickmercer for switching on comments at last. A lot of interesting ones, too.)

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[owdbetts.livejournal.com]

With a laser turntable.

Have they actually fixed the problems with the laser reading dust on the record?

The idea of reading the part of the groove wall undamaged by styluses is certainly neat, but I don't see how you get around the dust problem.

I know that the early production laser turntables shipped bundled with high-end record cleaning equipment that IIRC correctly had a price tag (just for the cleaning equipmenent) approaching that of a Linn Sondek.

I can see its value for archival of valuable vinyl (cleaning, done right, will do far less damage than playing with a stylus), but presonally I'd rather have a Linn Sondek any day... (Though I make do with a Rega Planar 3 and a pair of SL1200's)

-roy

-roy

[reddragdiva]

Apparently they have. The things are reputedly REALLY GOOD. See the Wikipedia article, which of course I wrote.

They do advise you to clean your records first, and supply a cleaning device.

Stevie Wonder bought one. You know a new piece of musical technology is hot when Stevie Wonder buys one.