"HD" Vinyl

[benb]

And perhaps the cut could be optimized for radial tonearms instead of linear ones. 😉

Yeah, but it could only be optimized for a tonearm of a certain length.

Maybe they would make different pressings for turntables with different tonearm lengths. Yeah, that's the ticket.

‘pulsed high-energy Femto-laser’

Woo-hoo!

We could call it a LaserDisc!

Oh, wait...

Interesting notion, but presumably it can do nothing about cartridge non-linearity, crosstalk, etc.

Nor indeed wow-n-flutter induced by warps & cart/arm resonance. There seems to be nothing in the article about the final vinyl being super-flat.

In view of that, I don't think HD is the right word.

I don't think this idea is going to fly.

You're all correct, except perhaps for the last sentence. With the right marketing, just about anything can "fly."

On one hand we have ELP laser reading system of vinyl. And now a digital high resolution vinyl cutting system. If we remove the step of analogus playing of vinyl. Presto ! We would have a CD player. So is the playing with phono cartridge on the turntable the only advantage ?
Regards

The "advantage" seems to be that a growing number of people WANT something to play with a phono cartridge on their ($50 Amazon) turntable. And if it's "HD" and "compatible with your current turntable," so much the better!