Ok, I thought I had written something like this before, but I couldn't find the post. So here goes:
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Dear santa... How about releasing a new LP player? With Multiroom and WiSA?
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Maybe you should suggest this to the Create team and see what they come up with! The problem with LPs is that they need proper cleaning and need turning over half way through. Add in the fact that unless you have a tangential arm that really works, the centre tracks have a fair degree of distortion and you are reliant on an accurate RIAA curve and it makes decent digital files seem very attractive - and this is from a multiple Beogram owner!
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The problem with LPs is that they need proper cleaning and need turning over half way through.
Maybe they can make a multiroom capable app for that too ;-))
And yes - I, too, have a vinyl player, a BeoGram LP4500.
MM
Location: Flensborg————Danmark
Yes, there are probably more obstacles in the way than I can come up with. And even if it wasn't, I've never thought of B&O as a very nostalgic company. Timeless and classic, yes, but nostalgic, no. I don't really see them doing a remake of old technology just because. It would be somehow out of character, I think.
But since I'm already way out in what-if-land, let's keep going: 😎
The turning half way through could probably be solved, I suppose. Somebody posted this on the forum recently:
Why the fuss with creating a vinyl master, pressing copies (not all of these good), creating, manufactoring and maintaining a complicated Gyro Gearloose/Petter Smart machine for playback, when you can playback the PCM/FLAC file on any halfway good media player?
If you really want vinyl in a modern B&O context, just connect a good tangential BeoGram to the line-in of an BS Essence or the BS Moment....and jump up to flip the disc every 20 minute.
MM
Location: Flensborg————Danmark
Maybe you should suggest this to the Create team and see what they come up with! The problem with LPs is that they need proper cleaning and need turning over half way through. Add in the fact that unless you have a tangential arm that really works, the centre tracks have a fair degree of distortion and you are reliant on an accurate RIAA curve and it makes decent digital files seem very attractive - and this is from a multiple Beogram owner!
The problem is inner groove distortion is cooked into the cake that is LP due to the fact everything is bunched up due to the slower linear speed of the groove there. A regular radial arm does tend to exacerbate it though, as in addition it adds problems with the angle of the stylus not being perpendicular to the groove wall.
I will, now and then, get nostalgic and start playing LPs for a while, but it doesn't take too long before the whole cleaning ritual, short time between changing sides, noise, etc. makes me remember why I enjoy the modern approach again.
The double arm LP player is not new. My parents used to have a Sharp system with double arms which could do repeat, random and even skip tracks by detecting the breaks on the LP surface. And this was early 80's.
My old Beogram 2200 works well with the Moment 🙂 Login to view image
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How you have connected it to moment?
The double arm LP player is not new. My parents used to have a Sharp system with double arms which could do repeat, random and even skip tracks by detecting the breaks on the LP surface. And this was early 80's.
Awesome. Never knew such a thing existed. Something like this, then?
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