"Geoff Mackenzie" wrote in message
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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.



All of that would be curable, but what's the point when a transcription can
be cleaned up sufficiently well after recording from a normal setup?