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Comment by PaulHoule

4 hours ago

It works and sounds like a good idea but boy do lasers see dust spots and things like that.

I believe they indeed do, but for digitizing rare records, they are much better than their physical counterparts. Considering that we can now remove these pops and clicks way better than we did before, it's a worthy thing to have for preservation purposes:

Laser Turntable: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Laser_turntable

Click and Pop Removal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j-LvCRzWCpU