Laser Vinyl Turntables

The purest music just like the master tapes you ve never heard.

Laser vinyl turntables.

Because of the use of lasers these turntables can only play black vinyl not a huge shortcoming. Amounts shown in italicized text are for items listed in currency other than canadian dollars and are approximate conversions to canadian. Unlike a traditional stylus the laser turntable achieves the highest fidelity from vinyl records with no wear on your precious collection. The only commercially available laser turntable initially was the elp lt 1xa which was first sold in 1987 for 20 500.

Lasers were first introduced for reading vinyl groove information almost 40 years ago. You can t replicate the sound of analogue as well in a digital format. They were a disaster although they were like huge cds and very heavy almost useless they were.

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. A pop i doubt too many people will get one. And there s much more of a interesting retro factor. Find great deals on ebay for laser turntable and laser record player.

The first functioning laser turntable the lt 1 was made by finial technology and had a projected street price of 3750. I remember the laser disc s of the 80 s.