@cavyherd@slyka@miunau there are of course laser readers for vinyl discs. the issue with it is dust; the needle can remove some dust from the groove, laser can only do it at significantly higher power levels π
@cavyherd@uint8_t@slyka@miunau
Dust? You just need a huge noisy compressor, some tubing and a jet just before the laser to clean the groove. Add some water with surficant to the air jet too, perfect.
Gregory's Server
@uint8_t @slyka @miunau
Oh. Dust. Right. Which tend to, uh, alter the vinyl, ahem. Interesting. I would expect some degree of algorithmic correction could address that?
Probably too late in the game/too low volume to be worth it, but I'm a little surpised no one's come up with non-static vinyl.