Laser-Accurate microphone proves once and for all that everything is better with lasers

Interesting!!!

Interesting!!!

You are not trending well.

You are not trending well.

I could take the time to run a full bivariate regression and give you a pleasant r^2, but with such a small n it would hardly be worth it. That's right, igorst, you have a small n, and it's not very pretty so far.

Sounds a bit like a plasma tweeter in reverse, minus the plasma or the tweeter.

A friend of mine was working on a mic that was pretty similar, though the project was stalled by technology limitations at the time. This seems like it's actually feasible though.

Hmm, its probably an interferometer of some sort. I guess its about time someone tried to apply it on audio.

I suspect it was inspired by El-P.

Wasn't Joseph Grado working on some fancy schmancy mic as well?

Wasn't Joseph Grado working on some fancy schmancy mic as well?

It wasn't laser, It was some sort of omnidirectional mic that was supposed to record from thousands of points or something. I'm not going to even kid, I didn't get it. A few things he was saying didn't make sense.

I suspect it was inspired by El-P.

Have you - or anybody we know - actually heard one of these?

I remember thinking when it came out that it was a fascinating idea. Then I never heard another word about it.

Alas, no, but the review I read of it seemed so accurate that I feel I have -- basically, it said that because the virtual needle is so accurate, that it almost seems to exacerbate every single speck of dust and blemish on the record. I.E. the classic "too revealing" review -- still would like to hear one, myself, having heard really well-cleaned vinyl.

Interesting. Of course ten grand is lot of money for a turntable, or more specifically, more than I have for one. But not wearing out your records and not having to buy new carts every whenever make it seem more reasonable.