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A ribbon of plastic is extruded from an orifice at the base of one of the twin towers of this
device, is drawn across a separating sheet of metal, before being received by the second
tower, perhaps no more than 3 inches distant, heated, flexed and run over the top back to the
head or the first
pillar via some kind of taffy-pulling machine arrangement.
As the ribbon of cooling plastic passes along the base between the towers, a sturdy needle
carves a single groove, imbued with vibratory oscillations matching those fed over the
standard stereo a/v connections presented by the device for this purpose.
Thusly, using a continual heating, extrusion, feed, scribe, heating, taffy-wheel carriage-
based cyclic process, when introduced *just-so* beneath the stylus of a live gramophone or
record-player, allows the device to transmit audio - without further modification.
At any one time, depending on speed settings, the scribed groove might only contain a few
seconds of audio before being destroyed at the other side of the mechanism.
The advantages are myriad, but the main one is that those used to the convenience of digitally
recorded media would now be able to recreate the warm and undeniably {enter-audiophile-
nonsense-here} of a traditional record-player in the comfort of their own home.
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Ribbons! towers! extrusion! taffy-wheels! vibratory
oscillation! Excellent. |
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Mae West "Nevermind the taffy, let's talk about the
vibratory oscillations..." |
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I wonder whether it could be done using a wax disk and melting & freezing the wax. |
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Let's use liquid nitrogen to obtain rapid freezing of the wax/ taffy. |
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Different coloured vinyl for picture discs too? |
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[+] and also a request for the disc version. Could use a vinyl disc sitting on the platter, then the device can have a "deletion head" just after the tonearm to melt and smooth the vinyl surface, and a "record head" just before the tonearm to engrave the audio track. A standalone unit that can be stood on any turntable. |
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The two heads could also move slowly sideways so the whole surface of the blank vinyl disc is used, to increase the life of a blank disc. |
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