Taking over for SUBMAN.

[TteFAboB]

The man's overloaded. This time I don't come here to offer competition. I have already been defeated. I know. The Cool-Tech-Stuff thread score is probably 18 Subman X 2 Me, including this one.

So, here you go. Paradoxically, you're going to like this one SUBMAN.

http://www.elpj.com/

All your dreams come true. I feel SO stupid for getting rid of my LP collection now. Argh! :damn:

Listen up boys and girls, DON'T GET RID OF YOUR VHS, BETAMAX, K7, FLOPPY DISKS, CDs, DVDs and etc!

Some genius will come out with a player for those things after they've been long outdated. Well, I'm not sure if there's any advantage of CD's over blue rays of whatever comes next. I don't even think a CD lasts as long as a good LP, but who knows.

[STEED]

Happy days are here again yes I am happy.:sunny: :D :cool: :D :sunny:

[Iceman]

Did I read the price tag right.... 15 THousand?...doh!

[TteFAboB]

Did I read the price tag right.... 15 THousand?...doh!

:rotfl:

Apparently, somebody needs to introduce the concept of mass production and serial assembly lines to them.

I've read somewhere in there that 1,000 were sold. Not much. It seems they are hand-made, one by one.

Fine, we'll have to wait a little more untill this thing gets cheaper. :-?

[Skybird]

I have a collection of roughly 240 VHs cassettes (that may qualify me as a collector, I guess) and around 200 CDs, half of them classical recordings. How could anyone in the industry guess he has easy play to convince me to adapt to a new technical standard soon???and llok at that crappy highteczh we have. digital cameras, for example. They become more and more chepaer, and become more and more potent and offer more and more gimmicks - and the return rates and failure rates have rocketed into the sky during the last 2 years. More and more less quality is displayed by integrated components, cheaper more often means worse, and often it is even bad design and unmatchging specifics (Sony had huge provblems with a whole generation of poicture processors during the last two years).HDTV, bleu ray, more problems deriving from more technical incompatabilities, and I even cannot record a program that easily anymore than I am used to (and pay for with my fees to the TV and radio braodcasters, that enclude finacial compensations for such practices - as long as it is not professionally and for money-raising - that is considered legal since decades). It is all madness broken loose, and I have no intention to make my life a race for new technical gimmicks and turn it worse by following every twist and turn of their rollercoaster just becaue some freak in a laboratory raises the head and says: "Look, I found something NEW!" Our complete economical thinking is completely messed up.

[SUBMAN1]

Man you got me. I have no comperable comback to that one. That is cool! :up: I think that would go with my stereo very nicely.

I must study this device.

-S

[SUBMAN1]

Oh my gosh! It is still analog! I was thinking it was going to turn the source digital and ruin it! Instead it preserves the analog completely (digital sucks by the way, even CD's). I totally want this!

$15K though? That is as much as my entire stereo system! Ouch!

-S

[SUBMAN1]

Price is way out there, but this is getting more tempting:

http://cgi.ebay.com/ELP-LASER-TURNTABLE-LT-1LRC_W0QQitemZ280016360491QQihZ018QQcategoryZ3283Q QssPageNameZWDVWQQrdZ1QQcmdZViewItem

[Rilder]

I feel so young.... :oops:

[SUBMAN1]

Hey - LP's are analog which means they have more BW to deliver than a typical CD, assuming you have a good needle. I'd rather have a bit of hiss with pure sound than CD audio anyday. However, you had to deal with scratches back then so the trade off's for the CD were too good to pass up.

If this this thing removes the scratches too, it might be the perfect audio device except for one thing - DVDAudio exists (Which I have of course and have had for many years). DVDAudio (not to be confused with dts) takes the CD audio problem (Which is lack of resolution) and fixes it with massive BW. Think a 800 MB CD (Red book audio squeezes more data on a CD than Orange book data) and put that same amount of music into say 4 GB, and the fact that its digital is not problem anymore because you can't hear it! It is beyond your comprehension.

So, if I actually have a choice, DVDAudio is it. But some old scratcheless LP's would also be good.

Come 1985 though and Dire Straits Brothers in Arms (The first pure digital recording), then an LP is no advatage, or barely. Between then and the begining of the 2000's, you had all recordings done with a max sample rate of 48000 Hz - not much better than the CD's 44.1 Khz. So, you might as well just own the CD.

Only now are they starting to make high sample rate recordings again.

-S