Save the Vinyl! (Score 1)

I think we're missing the point here, or at least one of them. Has anyone ever listened to their favorite record over and over again, until it started "skipping" at a particular point? I know I have, and it's darn annoying.

What's worse, whenever you encounter a skip, there's no way to fix it. You can lift the needle off of the record and put it down, but then you miss some of the music and can cause additional skips. Really, the only way to avoid this (until now) was to copy it onto a cassette before it started deteriorating. For those of us that are purists, or have older LP's that never had that chance, we were clean out of luck.

This new development is cool. A laser doesn't even need to touch the disk, and so they won't wear out from use anymore. A laser system can also be designed so that the skip-inducing irregularities developed in the LP are completely irrelevant.

Finally, a way to listen to my Limelighter's LP without that annoying skip in the same place! I anticipate that within the next five years, laser-based turntables will become standard on home audio systems. I am looking forward to it!