Laser Turntable Questions for feinstein

[lukpac]

Since you're the only person I've ever talked to that actually has one of these things, I think it's time for questions...

You've said that certain records that are damaged beyond belief play perfectly on the ELP. By "damaged", do you mean worn grooves, lots of surface noise, lots of pops, or all of the above?

As far as surface noise goes, how would you say it compares to standard turntables? By this I don't mean pops, but rather that underlying bed of noise present at some level on all LPs. On my system, some (very few) LPs are *very* quiet, but most have an annoying level of noise, present mainly in quiet passages and between songs.

How well does it play through clicks/pops?

Could you, at some point, post brief samples of some vinyl transferred on both a regular turntable and the ELP?

And I do have some vinyl here that I wouldn't mind having transferred;)

[Mike Hunte]

And I do have some vinyl here that I wouldn't mind having transferred;)

I have some vinyl there too that I wouldn't mind having transferred.

[David]

If you have the program Cool Edit Pro it can take away most vinyl noise. Just sample the quiet passages between songs and then run the noise filter. It will take away the noise leaving just the music. Works wonders.

[lukpac]

I'm quite familiar with click/noise reduction. I use click reduction all the time. Still, though, the better source you having coming in the better result you'll have coming out.

[krabapple]

Luke, what you really want is that atomic stylus that those guys in England used to restore some old recordings