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From: crandell@ut-sally.UUCP (Jim Crandell)
Newsgroups: net.audio
Subject: Re: LP easier to listen to at concert levels
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Date: Wed, 5-Jun-85 03:25:48 EDT
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> > Nor do I need to replace a stylus, belt, or whatever.
> > 
> 
> Not true !! In 5 years your laser diode will have surpassed its useful
> lifetime, and then you WILL have something to replace ...
> $$$ An expen$ive laser assembly $$$

Well yes, laser diodes do crap out eventually.  But the cost problem here,
if there really is one, is probably in the nature of what the CD equipment
makers force you to buy if you get replacement parts from them.  Laser
diodes per se, from the original sources (e.g., RCA) are not particularly
expensive until you get up into the 100-watt range.  Of course, the next
problem may be that RCA doesn't have one with the same dimensions as the
Quasimoto Electric Industrial Co., Ltd. model that's in your player,
and that's probably no accident.

Still, I wish you could get a high-quality cartridge for what common,
medium-power laser diodes cost.
-- 

    Jim Crandell, C. S. Dept., The University of Texas at Austin
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