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First 3-D Printed Records Sound Awful???And Amazing

SaracenusSaracenus 671 Posts
edited December 2012 in Strut Central
If they work out the quality and materials issue this could be the ultimate digital to analogue conversion. It would open up a whole new way to quickly disseminate vinyl without having to do a large run of albums through a service. Heck, you could make a mix-album and print it out. Maybe.

Here is the link to the Wired.com article:
http://www.wired.com/design/2012/12/3-d-printed-record/

here is the video from the article showing how they did it...

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  • dj_cityboydj_cityboy 1,478 Posts
    thats dope! and surely just the beginning....
  • Hotsauce84Hotsauce84 8,450 Posts
    I used to have this old ass machine that would transcribe audio onto a plastic sheet (basically flexi-disc before they were called flexi-discs). It sounded just as horrible. Wish I would've kept it, but the damn thing weighed about 50 lbs and it just sat there taking up space. I did listen to a couple of the discs though, which sounded like a classroom setting or meeting of some sort. It was pretty damn eerie.
  • LaserWolfLaserWolf Portland Oregon 11,517 Posts
    My wife got to play around on a 3d printer a few years back.
    Very cool technology.
    Some kid in Texas is working on a gun that can be printed out.
    When I read that first thing I thought was how long until they are detailed enough to reproduce record grooves.
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