Jim Lesurf wrote:

In article 441a6e41.0@entanet, Ian Bell wrote:

No I was thinking more of a small low mass pair of mirrors in place of
the MM for example with perhaps fibre optics to carry the data - no hum
issues for a start.


IIRC Denon did this about 25 years ago, but the result was not a
commercial success.


Optics were not common in consumer audio 25 years ago. A lot has changed
since then. Possibly time to look again.

Ian