Subj : cleaning old 78 vinyls ? To : RUSSELL TIEDT From : TOM WALKER Date : Sat Jun 18 2005 12:51 pm RT> TW>> Some nowdays rip them to Wave files and burn a CD for playing. RT> TW>> And for the real purist in a magazine recently I saw an Blip on a RT> TW>> $15,000 Laser Beam turntable. NOTHING except the Laser touches RT> TW>> the Recorded Grouve. :-) RT> RT> I saw that once, way too much money! If they can put a laser into RT> RT> cdrom drives and other stuff they sure as heck oughta be able to do RT> RT> that cheaper, as well. I guess no demand, though, or something. RT> RT> It'd be kinda nifty, anyhow! RT>Trouble is the "normal" turntables at half that price sound 10x better ... It is still developing technology. BUT the other side of the coin is that EVERY PLAYING with a "normal" turntable destroys in a small manner the Record ITSELF!!! --- þ SLMR 2.1a þ This note from El Cajon California USA * Origin: Try Our Web Based QWK: DOCSPLACE.ORG (1:123/140) .