Very cool Levitating Turntable Kickstarter
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Now that is real cool!
Of course it remains to be seen/heard in real life situation on how truly effective in performance it operates.
So far I'm not finding much, no more than advertisements on a cool levitation object of curiosity...a cool looking concept.
Of course it remains to be seen/heard in real life situation on how truly effective in performance it operates.
So far I'm not finding much, no more than advertisements on a cool levitation object of curiosity...a cool looking concept.
I wonder why they didn't choose blue for the ring. Orange would not match many systems. Interesting concept.
Tom
Tom
The field may or may not affect the cartridge, but it would probably have weak bass. Even with some of the heaviest platters belt driven have trouble keeping up with the bass from direct and idle drive, what's magnets to do? Also how does it respond to sound waves since it's floating without something to stop it from moving as they hit it?
Air might be a "smooth" barring but consider that magnet interactions are not necessarily smooth. Just think about playing with magnets, there's nothing smooth when they hit limits, and they are not very linear.
Maybe it'll work great, but they certainly aren't targeting groups that put in serious money for serious sound. It makes you wonder how good it really must be.
This looks like an ideal solution for someone young that just wants some way to play music. It looks really neat. I just don't think it's an audiophile product so much as just not trash.
Air might be a "smooth" barring but consider that magnet interactions are not necessarily smooth. Just think about playing with magnets, there's nothing smooth when they hit limits, and they are not very linear.
Maybe it'll work great, but they certainly aren't targeting groups that put in serious money for serious sound. It makes you wonder how good it really must be.
This looks like an ideal solution for someone young that just wants some way to play music. It looks really neat. I just don't think it's an audiophile product so much as just not trash.
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Looking at the video, the platter is moving around in every direction you wouldn't want it to. Great conversation piece though.
So far predicted rate of success: http://sidekick.epfl.ch/campaign/401791624-mag-lev-audio--the-first-levitating-turntable
I don't see a prototype.
I see CGI.
This seems legit. I should think there would be more than a few hurdles to overcome for playing LP.
http://www.crealev.com/product/clm-1-5-levitation-module/
I see CGI.
This seems legit. I should think there would be more than a few hurdles to overcome for playing LP.
http://www.crealev.com/product/clm-1-5-levitation-module/
If we can levitate our cars like that we would save on rubber.
Approximately 300 million tires get tossed out every year in America and each tire contains about 10 gallons of oil, according to Patrick George, CFO of new age rubber recycler Lehigh Technologies. That comes to 3 billion gallons. The U.S. consumes about 145 billion gallons of oil. Thus, the amount thrown out in tires comes to around two percent of the annual total. Lehigh doesn't sell recovered oil-it has a process for making rubber powder out of things like tires that can then be reused for making new tires or other products--and it's not realistic that discarded tires can all be recycled. Still, the number gives you a sense of the gas consumption that could be avoided through better recycling. Recycling 30 million tires means 300 million gallons not consumed, which can also be viewed as 300 million gallons taken out of the ground. Just think: Tracy, California can call itself the Saudi Arabia of old tires. Lehigh has a plant that churn out 100 million pounds of recycled rubber powder a year. Two-thirds of the rubber in the world, by the way, is synthetic. One-third is the real stuff. Lehigh, which has raised $34.5 million, is one of the standouts in the green chemistry field. Like many other green chem companies, Lehigh has come up with a way to make a conventional product that a) relies on a cheap feedstock and/or b ) requires less fossil fuel to produce. Other standouts in the category include Serious Materials (wallboard that doesn't require much energy to manufacture), Hycrete (waterproof concrete) and Cereplast (bioplastics). Buyers of green chemistry products can also qualify, depending on the jurisidiction, for carbon credits, so there is a third advantage. Several companies have tried recycled rubber in the past, but found it tough to take the rubber powder and make something useful again. As a result, most old tires are burnt or put into monofills, said George. Some old rubber gets ground down into pellet-sized particles and refashioned into flooring or asphalt. But Lehigh is taking on a bigger market and a tougher assignment. It breaks down old rubber into an ultrafine powder, which can be used in a variety of products. Lehigh did not come up with the process itself. It started in Germany as a way to grind up, and dispose of, old pharmaceuticals. Lehigh is also not from Pennslyvania, George stated. The company is based in Florida. The founders, however, had another company with the Lehigh designation. "We needed a name quickly and we didn't want to pay a naming consultant," he said.
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Vinyl is cool, levitation is cool, progress is cool, music streaming and downloading is cool, the health of our planet is cool, peace is cool.
• http://blog.oregonlive.com/popmusic/2008/07/will_big_oil_prices_sink_the_v.html
Approximately 300 million tires get tossed out every year in America and each tire contains about 10 gallons of oil, according to Patrick George, CFO of new age rubber recycler Lehigh Technologies. That comes to 3 billion gallons. The U.S. consumes about 145 billion gallons of oil. Thus, the amount thrown out in tires comes to around two percent of the annual total. Lehigh doesn't sell recovered oil-it has a process for making rubber powder out of things like tires that can then be reused for making new tires or other products--and it's not realistic that discarded tires can all be recycled. Still, the number gives you a sense of the gas consumption that could be avoided through better recycling. Recycling 30 million tires means 300 million gallons not consumed, which can also be viewed as 300 million gallons taken out of the ground. Just think: Tracy, California can call itself the Saudi Arabia of old tires. Lehigh has a plant that churn out 100 million pounds of recycled rubber powder a year. Two-thirds of the rubber in the world, by the way, is synthetic. One-third is the real stuff. Lehigh, which has raised $34.5 million, is one of the standouts in the green chemistry field. Like many other green chem companies, Lehigh has come up with a way to make a conventional product that a) relies on a cheap feedstock and/or b ) requires less fossil fuel to produce. Other standouts in the category include Serious Materials (wallboard that doesn't require much energy to manufacture), Hycrete (waterproof concrete) and Cereplast (bioplastics). Buyers of green chemistry products can also qualify, depending on the jurisidiction, for carbon credits, so there is a third advantage. Several companies have tried recycled rubber in the past, but found it tough to take the rubber powder and make something useful again. As a result, most old tires are burnt or put into monofills, said George. Some old rubber gets ground down into pellet-sized particles and refashioned into flooring or asphalt. But Lehigh is taking on a bigger market and a tougher assignment. It breaks down old rubber into an ultrafine powder, which can be used in a variety of products. Lehigh did not come up with the process itself. It started in Germany as a way to grind up, and dispose of, old pharmaceuticals. Lehigh is also not from Pennslyvania, George stated. The company is based in Florida. The founders, however, had another company with the Lehigh designation. "We needed a name quickly and we didn't want to pay a naming consultant," he said.
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Vinyl is cool, levitation is cool, progress is cool, music streaming and downloading is cool, the health of our planet is cool, peace is cool.
• http://blog.oregonlive.com/popmusic/2008/07/will_big_oil_prices_sink_the_v.html
It will work but the stray magnetic field will be too big having some impact on other parameters we do not really want to see in an High End turntable implementation.
www.AudioCirc.com
www.AudioCirc.com
so the platter levitates but the arm is fixed to a solid base with no suspension?!
their whole drive seems to have been cool/modern wit no consideration of sound quality.
their whole drive seems to have been cool/modern wit no consideration of sound quality.
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