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https://variety.com/2022/music/news...e-burnett-new-audio-analog-medium-1235241159/
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should be interesting
here we go again, new format, new medium,new equipment
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phillybhates
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So T Bone has reinvented the acetate disc? Back in 2008 his solution for the ultimate format was digital with his Code Disc, but it never took off. Maybe we should go ahead and settle the analog vs digital debate sometime this afternoon so that we'll have a solid foundation on which to judge this new product.
45rpmspinner
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Indeed. What a load of hooey.
"It is lacquer painted onto an aluminum disc, with a spiral etched into it by music."
That's the giant leap forward, you see. Prior to T Bone's new method, the spiral was etched into the disc by a steel needle. T Bone's gone and found a way to have the spiral etched into the disc by music! Nice of him to give us this detailed explanation.
nj pheonix
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He was never the most musical (?) singer .
It served him well though .
There are laser stylus turntables out there. Never seen or heard them though. I'm sure a tube-powered one would be even more awesomePersonally, I want to see a turntable with a tube powered modulated laser stylus and 12 inch digital albums. All the goodness of analogue with no surface noise.
https://www.elpj.com/stylus-vs-laser-why-the-laser-turntable-excels/
45rpmspinner
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Yes, such a great leap forward!
However, it appears a good old fashioned "rock fastened to a stick" is still need for playback.
"can be heard by putting a stylus into the spiral and spinning it.”
I'm guessing T-Bone didn't see any point in reinventing the turntable.
Perhaps a re-mastered Nash the Slash LP? I'm sure the OP would agree that would be a good choice to showcase this new format.
As always, I was impressed by his lyricism -
the man always had a writing gift.
But his voice failed him long ago ...
and Bob doing the great American Songbook
is even more of a joke than Rod Stewart doing it.
I drove three hours to see him in 2018 and was disappointed. He didn't play any guitar and spent the entire show seated at a piano stage right and in the rear, pretty much behind the band. The vast majority of his set list was new obscure material that none of us had ever heard. He didn't address the audience until the end of the show, at which he walked over to the center stage, glared at us for a few seconds and then walked off - to an immense standing ovation. Sigh.
RunOutGroove
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I'm skeptical... Will the stuff be playable on a regular turtable, will it last and is it going to be prohibitively expensive (much more expensive than regular LPs already are?
I tend to think that the recent renaissance of the vinyl format actually has very little to do with the sound quality (it's almost exclusively about nostalgia, I would argue) so that some kind of improved analog format wouldn't have much traction in the general vinyl buying community. It would be more for audiophile types and even then only the kinds of audiophiles who care about analog sound quality on a really macro level and are prepared to spend what probably will be a lot more for records done with this process. With so few records likely being pressed, it seems that the kind of specialized plant that would make these things won't have enough demand to make operating such a thing economically viable. It seems to me that producing even the most niche audio gear can be economically viable, but that a whole new format that is likely to be only a tiny niche is destined to fail...
I tend to think that the recent renaissance of the vinyl format actually has very little to do with the sound quality (it's almost exclusively about nostalgia, I would argue) so that some kind of improved analog format wouldn't have much traction in the general vinyl buying community. It would be more for audiophile types and even then only the kinds of audiophiles who care about analog sound quality on a really macro level and are prepared to spend what probably will be a lot more for records done with this process. With so few records likely being pressed, it seems that the kind of specialized plant that would make these things won't have enough demand to make operating such a thing economically viable. It seems to me that producing even the most niche audio gear can be economically viable, but that a whole new format that is likely to be only a tiny niche is destined to fail...
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