Has anyone ever heard of or seen this: http://www.elpj.com It's a turntable that plays vinyl using five lasers instead of a needle. Allegedly, the lasers penetrate the grooves deeper than a needle and the sound quality is sypposed to be unparalled. This thing will play warped and even broken records perfectly. The Lubrary of Congress uses them for audio preservation. Check out the pricing though...they cost as much as a car! Occasionally, when master tapes are lost or destroyed studios will remaster for digital from vinyl. This apparently was the case with the recent Cure "Seventeen Seconds" remaster (The Cure remasters were great BTW as they were overseen personally by Robert Smith and done at Abbey Road so they are true improvements and not overly compressed garbage). I wonder if Metropolis Mastering and Abbey Road employ this device? Dan