Scanning LPs ?


Has anyone heard of anything like this before?

I have come across the tri-laser turntable but this guy just lays the record on an office type scanner, rotates and copies 4 quadrant images, pastes them together and somehow converts the image to MP3.

http://www.cs.huji.ac.il/~springer/

His samples sound terible, of course, but the idea is new to me.
kenyonbm

Showing 2 responses by fatparrot

Pretty cool! I heard a story about a guy who was able to look at the groove patterns in a record, and then tell what classical piece it was [don't try that with an SACD, folks!]

Here's an interesting premise that I've heard postulated. While portraits were being painted, the vibrations of speech might have left a permanent pattern in the paint as it dried. Some kind of computer controlled laser scanning process might, some day, be able to read these micro-patterns. Image hearing a word or two of Washington's or Lincoln's actual voice!