[Magdalen] NYTimes: Vinyl frenzy.

[Charles Wohlers]

Phono preamps are quite common. The software I bought long ago (from Magix) 
for transferring LP's to computer came with one.
See http://www.turntablelab.com/pages/beginners-guide-to-turntables for 
really basic info.

Chad Wohlers
Woodbury, VT USA
chadwohl at satucket.com



-----Original Message----- 
From: Arthur Laurent
Sent: Saturday, September 19, 2015 12:32 AM
To: <magdalen at herberthouse.org>
Subject: Re: [Magdalen] NYTimes: Vinyl frenzy.

<... I imagine you're talking about the machine that uses a laser beam. 
Costs tens of thousands of dollars.  One reviewer years ago said it's so 
"perfect" it's like listening to your favorite records while eating potato 
chips...

I can't imagine it costs thousands of dollars since my new Blu-ray player 
(which uses a low-powered laser that does little more than heat the disc) 
cost $78, delivered.

Though I suppose if you say enough buzzwords, and point to non-existent 
advantages, you could convince some gullible soul that it's market cost is 
worth far more that its actual cost.

The NYT, as usual, is a few decades late in reporting tech. Thorens made a 
tangent-tracking LP turntable, with laser instead of stylus and cartridge 
option, back in the mid-1980s. By then, I'd already migrated to CD. (But, if 
course, I still have my AR turntable, "just in case." Though I'd be hard 
pressed to find a preamp that properly de-emphasize an RIAA curve. I suppose 
it would be easier to build one than to find one.)

Arthur