Monday, May 25, 2009
DIY laser turntable plays Morton Subotnick's "Silver Apples of the Moon"
YouTube via EA78751. Buchla
"An experiment. Actually, the turntable isn't modified at all. The laser pointer beam is focused by a cheap lens, and reflects off the spinning vinyl. The grooves modulate the beam, and the modulations are picked up with a photodiode. Nothing is touching the top side of the record.
http://ericarcher.net/devices/lite2sound
thanks for watching"
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That was just amazing - thanks for sharing this.
ReplyDeleteimagine if this technology was perfected. the fidelity of vinyl without the wear caused by repeated plays using a needle.
ReplyDeleteActually laser turntables have been commercially available since the '90s. They are fairly expensive, but have some advantages.
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