3D Printed records??? Apparently it's happening... Check dis out, vinyl fans...!

Probably, Ivan....either that or some dufus with a nail on the end of a stick....wires on his 'good arm' making him twitch to the 'music'....

Although it's hard to judge if that's listenable anymore....

I'm still getting my head around folks channeling Ginsbergs' 'Howl' by hanging out their windows and howling like wolves at night....

Personally, I at least wait for the full moon....*tsk* 

So THAT'S what they've been using on those recent Rhino remasters!!!

Meanwhile, back on the 'net....

http://www.yurisuzuki.com/design-studio/easyrecordmaker

...I didn't mention the specs....they'll need some improvements, obviously...

Possible? - anything is possible, just look at the new 8K TV’s - and Sony has a huge 63 foot 16k TV, released back in September 2019
https://robbreport.com/gear/tvs/sony-16k-crystal-led-tv-2869489/

Trouble is the size of the digital file to print an album - I’m not talking the music file - I mean the digital file that contains the digital information to construct the details in the groves etc...

So, my other hobby is photography and the size of the images over the years has increased tremendously.

Again I’m not talking about the sensor and RAW image from the camera, but the image you must create and send to the store to get an image printed.
e.g. a friend just had a 53" x 36" image printed and that digital file was 500 meg.

I have one image, granted a very large one, that is over 1 gig.

To actually 3D print an album would take a massive amount of data to achieve the detail required and consequently a huge amount of time to process that data.

But - memory is getting cheaper and we are bordering on super computers in our homes.

So maybe it’s not so far off after all ?
- remember when PC's first became mainstream - with a 10 meg hard drive - yikes!

It could mean - the end of bad pressings? - Finally !

But it was a great video and had me - right up to the reveal.

I’ve never seen Steve so "pumped" - he sold it well :-)

Thanks for posting it - it was a great little diversion from - "Self Isolation" and "Social Distancing"

Regards - Steve

Joking aside, is such a process theoretically possible? How great would this be?!  

erik_squires said:

“I am not trying to be a troll here, but rather a forensic scientist.

These albums are cut from digital files. If vinyl lovers prefer them over the digital files I am very very interested in why that is. :) “

LPs have been made from digital files since 1979! Did you really think they were all made from analog files?? Really??!

5 min of my quarantined life I'll never get back.

Yeah, I've had 'dark spots'....always preferred the 'light spots', but they never seemed to last very long..... 

@millercarbon HAHAHA!! Absolutely perfect. 

I watch Steve’s vids every morning he puts one up, and he totally got me until the big reveal. It reminded me of this one done in 2015 by London Jazz Collector:
https://londonjazzcollector.wordpress.com/2015/04/01/at-last-its-possible-real-home-download-vinyl/

Ivan....there's a lot of that going around....and nobody seemed to notice....*shrug*

3D printed LP's......🤔😏...well...not yet, but....sooner than one might think, and I won't be surprised.....

Analog to mp3, to digital vinyl, out to analog AV receiver, back to digital for the internal DAC, then back to analog for the speakers... 


Edison is rolling in his grave...

We need a new word for when clueless falls short. Clueless, times oblivious squared, to the power of inept.

Harlan Ellison, who wrote City on the Edge of Forever, considered by many the all-time greatest Star Trek episode, was asked about writing for  Guest Star Joan Collins. He answered, "Her mind is like a vast open plain, across which winds play, endlessly."

Something like that.

So I found an article from 2015 from Hannah Rose Mendoza, which stipulates they are going from MP3 files. I really hope that is no longer the case! :D

I am not trying to be a troll here, but rather a forensic scientist.

These albums are cut from digital files. If vinyl lovers prefer them over the digital files I am very very interested in why that is. :)

Best,


E

I thought Steve handled that one great, I didn't catch on till near the end.

There's usually something audio related every year...although seems like last year's slipped my mind bc I looked around for something to link to, but nothing caught my eye...then it turned out there was one and I had seen it, but didn't catch on to it when I did...hidden in plain sight. It's sorta a fear of mine that one year I'll find just the thing to link to - and it will turn out to be perfectly legit...

I was ready to donate to a Go Fund Me page.

exactly!

Ahahaha, happy April 1 

At least they're not warped...