Not necessarily. Maybe he just wanted to focus on allowing the LP to
vibrate. However maybe his idea would have worked if only used by people
living in anechoic chambers. ;- ...oh hang on, bugger, the stylus will
also generate vibrations. So no stylus contact either, I'm afraid, for his
(alledged) idea to work.


Wasn't there a turntable in the seventies which dispensed with the stylus
altogether, using instead some sort of optical pickup? Called the Finial,
or something like that. Got reinvented and asked for more funding every six
months or so.
IIRC only one escaped and was reviewed in HFN - worked reasonably well, but
was completely defeated by surface pops which came out at ear-shattering
levels.

Geoff Mack