Pull out your old Barry Manalo & John Tesh records Gadgetizers, ’cause the ELP Laser Turntable is here!

From the ELP Laser Turntable site:

Two Tracking Laser beams are directed to the left and to the right shoulders of the groove of the record. Only the part of the beams that reach the groove are reflected to two PSD (Position Sensitive Detector) optical semiconductors. The part of the beams that fall on the land area of the record are deflected and not picked up by the PSD devices. The signals are sent to a microprocessor via analog to digital converters, then to servos to maintain the reader head position directly above the groove.

Great. Now I won’t be able to scratch out ‘n mix LP’s like I used to, but all is not lost. Recording them and porting them to my iPod will be a lot easier, and less scratchy.

[Source: AudioTurntable Via: BoingBoing]