In article ,
Keith G wrote:
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?

What's the point when a CD from the master does it all so much better?

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