Floating Turntable

[chunky007]

Interesting idea

http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=6TBOHvx0vlg#!

 

[illini]

Did they deliberately spin the records in reverse? The table obviously doesn't work.

 

[gadget73]

Must be something of a hassle to maintain proper alignment with the records wobbling about and the tonearm not bolted to anything.

 

[Ohighway]

Must be something of a hassle to maintain proper alignment with the records wobbling about and the tonearm not bolted to anything.

Killjoy !! :nono:

You just want everything... don't you? Next you'll be wanting a stylus that contacts the grooves of the record....

Ugh.... some people....

 

[dread31]

And turning backwards. If he could get it to spin clockwise, stay level and on-center, with the stylus actually in the groove, he might have something.

Dave

 

[SoundsAlike]

And turning backwards. If he could get it to spin clockwise, stay level and on-center, with the stylus actually in the groove, he might have something.

Dave

So you have a powerful magnet that levitates the platter/LPs.

Won't that same magnet repel or attract the metals used in a cartridge, tonearm, and wires inside all those components?

 

[bogle111]

You would have to be in the Northern Hemisphere for it to spin the correct way. Bit like water down the plug hole I suspect.

And what about speed consistency?

 

[bogle111]

And turning backwards. If he could get it to spin clockwise, stay level and on-center, with the stylus actually in the groove, he might have something.

Dave

Something like a hovering friz-by. Maybe good for making UFO movies.:scratch2:

 

[poortom]

That might be good for finding Satan's backwards messages in some rock records.

 

[PickyEars81]

Did they deliberately spin the records in reverse? The table obviously doesn't work.

From the description:

Published on Apr 20, 2013

We are governed by the laws of gravity yet in particle physics, gravitation is by far the weakest of the four fundamental interactions.

Architectural structures must yield to gravity but what happens when we remove this principle? What new structures could exist without the constraints of gravitational force?

In this concept, 7 vinyl records are suspended in the air by electromagnets. A toenarm is mounted with an optical sensor which picks up the light patterns from the surface of the record. There is no needle touching the record. The optical sensor acts as a virtual stylus hovering above the grooves. Sounds are processed in a sound-generating software program and amplified through speakers.

 

[illini]

From the description:
In this concept, 7 vinyl records are suspended in the air by electromagnets. A toenarm is mounted with an optical sensor which picks up the light patterns from the surface of the record. There is no needle touching the record. The optical sensor acts as a virtual stylus hovering above the grooves. Sounds are processed in a sound-generating software program and amplified through speakers.[/I]

Bogus. It must be a joke site.

 

[dread31]

So you have a powerful magnet that levitates the platter/LPs.

Won't that same magnet repel or attract the metals used in a cartridge, tonearm, and wires inside all those components?

Only ferrous metals. No effect on aluminum.

Dave

 

[gladiator335]

"New" concept

Quote: Architectural structures must yield to gravity but what happens when we remove this principle?

I know what happens. Saw it myself when an old building collapsed in a cloud of dust.
Someone probably just forgot to turn off the gravity...