Every time you play your vinyl records, you are wearing them out a little bit. The needle travels through the grooves and puts microscopic wear on the medium itself. This turntable, however, allows you to play your vinyl without putting wear on it, reading the grooves by using dual
"lasers". Cool! (via Boing Boing)
The flipside, so to speak, is the virtual turntable, which makes CDs act like vinyl. This allows one to and use hip-hop techniques like scratching and playing stuff backwards and/or at different speeds without the expense and inconvenience of lugging around turntables and vinyl. Ots CD Scratch 1200 is a nice example of this. The basic version is free and easy to use. Aside from the obvious scratching feature, you can change pitch and tempo independently of each other (so for example you could make everyone sound like The Chipmunks without speeding up the song).
Q: How did Stella get her groove back?
A: By looking reeeeealllly carefully.
What record grooves look like way up close.
Arthur B. Lintgen, M.D.isn't psychic, but he can identify a record with no label. He does it by how the grooves look.
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