Die Nachteile des Laser Drehers springen einem bei etwas rumlesen ins Auge.
1. Welcher normale Dreher verweigert schon ein Platte? Dieser hier anscheinend schon und muckt wohl noch dazu eher bei neuerem Vinyl (!) als bei 1960er Pressungen - und die sollten dann auch bitte in sehr gutem Zustand sein.
2. Noise: "The first LP I played on the LT-2XRC was the Super Disk half-speed-mastered version of Tower of Powers’ Back to Oakland [Direct Disk Labs SD 16601]. An admitted obsessive compulsive, I have three copies of this LP in near-mint condition. After placing it in the drawer and hitting Play, I immediately noted an unacceptable amount of noise coming through the speakers. This was different than the normal pops and ticks associated with the cartridge/groove interface. This noise was a combination of crunching, popping and distortion that was prominent throughout the frequency spectrum and, therefore, much more distracting than traditional surface noise. Although the ELP manual mentions this potential problem, I didn’t expect it to be quite so bothersome. Although I cleaned the LP on my Loricraft PRCM-3 two weeks earlier and thoroughly dusted it off with my Hunt carbon-fiber record brush right before playing it, I decided to clean it again on the Loricraft just to be safe. What struck me as odd, however, is that I’d played this LP just a few days earlier on my SME turntable, and it was virtually dead quiet."
3. Soundverfälschung: "For obvious reasons, I began by playing Back to Oakland on my SME 30 Model turntable/SME Series IV.Vi tonearm/Dynavector XV-1s cartridge setup, which costs roughly $27,000. As expected, it was dead quiet with no noise to distract me. Dave Garibaldi’s drums and Rocco Prestia’s bass on "Don’t Change Horses in the Middle of a Stream" and "Squib Cakes" also had better transient attack, bloom and decay through the SME/Dynavector combo. For example, when a bassist plays a single note on the string of his bass or a percussionist strikes a tympani, there is an initial sharp and pronounced attack (whether a muted or staccato note), followed by the development or bloom (as the skin or string and wood resonate), and ending in a natural decay of the note's trailing harmonics. Through the LT-2XRC, the attack and subsequent harmonic bloom of the notes were less pronounced, giving the music an homogenized character. When Tower of Power’s bass virtuoso Rocco Prestia played in his rapid-fire finger-funk style, and when Peter Cetera pulled harder on his strings, their respective playing styles were easier to hear through my reference analog rig. With Chicago Transit Authority LP, my listening notes further indicated that Terry Kath’s voice was more gruff, raspy and soulful through the SME/Dynavector rig."
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4. Farbige Pressungen spielt er gar nicht.
Und das bei dem Listenpreis von fast 6K Euro für das Basis-Modell (plus Fracht (19kg aus Japan) plus Zoll) = und tschüss!