Teach your old 33rpm records new tricks
For about $15,000 you can get a device that will play your old 33rpm LPs (records) without a needle. The device can purportedly eliminate pops and crackles, and recover the audio information even from damaged (cracked) records. This page on the ELP website describes how the technology works. Used as an archival tool in the Library of Congress, it would be wonderful if this technology was affordable enough for regular folks like me with a lot of old records in the garage - but I won’t be holding my breath.
