The Phonocut

[Ali T]

Seems we will soon have the opportunity to cut our own discs-

https://phonocut.com/

 

[matteo.renesto]

How does it work?

 

[sq225917]

If his disk-o-mat is anything to go by I'll not hold my breath.

 

[deebster]

Interesting, but the website blurb intimates the machine is already produced whilst the photo says 'our vision of...' and the FAQ link leads nowhere.

This another MDAC 2?

 

[S-Man]

Brilliant. You could record all your downloads & CDs to vinyl.
Cure all that "perfect digital sound forever" forever.

 

[simon g]

Nothing new. In my far off youth there were booths that would record you on to a 45 instantly.

 

[Werner]

In the past fifteen years there have been a few real consumer-level vinyl cutters:

https://www.google.com/search?client=firefox-b-d&q=kingston+vinyl+cutter

https://www.google.com/search?clien...hUKEwi86Ky1yp3lAhXP2qQKHZKVCocQ4dUDCAo&uact=5

 

[Jamie]

Or something a bit more 'industrial'?

http://rover.ebay.com/rover/1/710-5...0001&campid=5338728743&icep_item=223657146617

 

[George J]

If a cutting head can make a lateral transit of then record while cutting the groove, why don't tonearms do the same by now while tracking the groove?

A lot would be solved with lateral tracking tonearms.

Best wishes from George

 

[Jim Audiomisc]

The cutter cuts as it goes, defining the rate of inward spiral, usually varying this with loudness.

The replay arm has to follow the variations in the radius and change in radial rate *without* applying more than a tiny force to the groove. If it applies more than a tiny amount, it will 'cut a new groove' rather than follow the one already on the disc.

Thus 'linear tracking' systems for replay have to operate with a *very* delicate sensitivity to following the existing groove. Whereas the cutter simply ploughs where it decides over a blank start surface.

Linear tracking has been done for replay. But it isn't easy (read cheap and unfussy).

 

[Jono_13]

Bang and Olufsen did excellent linear tracking TTs. I had a 4004 and wish I still did.

The lightness of downforce, around a gram, saved many records in my collection...

https://www.beoworld.org/prod_details.asp?pid=295