Is this a disgrace to the Industry ?

tpreaves:

Not insecure, I am old school, I have a GARRARD 401 with THOMAS SCHICK 12" Tonearm and ORTOFON SPU and the rest of the system is accordingly to juice the Vinyl to its máximum potencial, I just dont really see the point to use this new device to play Vinyl, Its some how a contradcition in itself, using digital-bluetooth Technology to Extract the sound of Vinyl,

It just doesn’t make sense. It missing the whole point of using Vinyl.

Thanks Frank, regarding the ELP, that used lasers as means to read the groves, this new device as I understand uses a convencional needle, then converts it to Digital and transmits the info vía Bluetooth.  So it is a musical  abomination ! As clearly explained by Parabolic "analog waveform into a digital signal to be sent via bluetooth or WiFi to be reconverted via a cellphone codec to an analog speaker."

The ELP at least was plugged to a decent stereo system, I just dont see the market niche as psickerson, "too expensive to buy a child, someone curious about vinyl would want a traditional TT I would think, why else go vinyl." For this Price is a very expensive novelty too