Turntable with Frickin’ Lasers @ Futurelooks

Lincoln Russell 31 May, 2006 at 11:52am ET Article published in Tech

A look at a not-so-vintage vinyl player.

Using the word “Turntable” and “Laser” in the same sentence is almost like an oxymoron. Well, not only has ELP brought lasers to the old record player, but they have also given the old platters all the tricks that a CD player has, without wearing out that precious vinyl. Did I mention it plays them broken too?

Source: Futurelooks

Comments

31 May 2006 ~ 12:36pm QCH My dad would love one of these!!!! Of course, the price is a bit out of my price range!!! $15,000!!!! :wow:
31 May 2006 ~ 2:26pm Buddha16

QCH2002 wrote:

My dad would love one of these!!!! Of course, the price is a bit out of my price range!!! $15,000!!!! :wow:

Diddo, but thats an awesome player!
31 May 2006 ~ 2:26pm Garg That's frickin' cool! Too bad it costs 150x what I paid for my record player...
31 May 2006 ~ 3:41pm Thrax I remember seeing one of these for $25k in the Maximum PC mag about 4 years ago. Still cool as hell.
1 Jun 2006 ~ 12:21am airbornflght pretty cool, but how does it play a broken record? does the laser spend around the record?
1 Jun 2006 ~ 3:10am TheSmJ I just can't understand why they're so expensive to produce.
2 Jun 2006 ~ 12:52am primesuspect Because there are probably only 25 customers for something like this...