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Robert Roaldi
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May 06, 2021, 09:39:18 am »
Here are a couple of sites with photos and videos along with tech description of equipment used.
https://kottke.org/14/11/microscopic-photo-of-vinyl-record-grooves
https://thevinylfactory.com/news/incredible-photos-of-record-grooves-under-an-electron-microscope/
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Wow!! Very, very interesting, thanks! I remember seeing a cartoon somewhere with a billboard in it that read something like
"Play a vinyl album everyday, they served us well for many years"
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May 10, 2021, 01:46:15 am »
That was cool! Brings me back to my former life training to be a TEM/SEM operator back at the end of the 1970s and looking at minutia was so fascinating! Got trained in both material sciences (engineering) and in histology/cytology (biological) which was more interesting of the two facets since I was hard-core into life sciences with my photography back then.
Though I didn't finish the program as my photographic biz was taking off (and making $$$), the science and the scientific methodology I learned became a framework for the analytics used in many projects over the course of these years.
Glad I had the opportunity back yet also grateful life took me along a different path.
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I look at those grooves and bumps and at the needle and I think it's a wonder it works at all!
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Good Vibrations!
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May 10, 2021, 10:56:22 am »
It's a fascinating video.
I had to send a link to my brother Rodney, who was trained as a physicist but ended up building beautiful harpsichords.
I titled my email, "This is what Rodney would do if he had a scanning electron microscope."
I haven't heard his response yet.
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Very interesting! Thanks for sharing.
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Quote from: Robert Roaldi on May 10, 2021, 09:12:54 am
I look at those grooves and bumps and at the needle and I think it's a wonder it works at all!
Agreed. How that technology could ever reproduce high quality sound (let alone music) is beyond me.
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it's getting those "good vibrations" (quoting a Beach Boys song)
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