Laser Turntables; Opinions Please


Has anyone out there had any experience with laser turntables? Is there any actual benifit? (Besides no wear on the records)? How does a laser turntable sound in comparision to a real turntable and carts? Please share.
eddaytona
The only one I remember was also about twenty years ago and cost $10,000 (in 1982 dollars). It was geared towards collectors, not audiophiles. It allowed a collector to play that valuable rare LP with no wear.
Stereo Times had a review:

http://www.stereotimes.com/turn030300.shtm

They said it was fantastic. However, they did say that pops and clicks are much more pronounced.

But check out: http://www.elpj.com/frameset.html

In their website, they say it is less noisy. They also have three models where they used to only have one.

According to the article, ELP will demo the tt in your home for a fee of $500.00. If you decide to buy, the fee is credited to the purchase price.

I encourage you to buy the ELP, and then tell me what you think!:)
I 'think' Stereophile may review this in the future.
In the recommended components TT section,in the area of TT products to keep any eye on or to having a coming review it is mentioned (I think) I dont have that issue anymore to double check though.Am I right or wrong?
I thought there was a fairly recent review on this in TAS? Maybe I'm wrong, perhaps it was Stereophile. Whichever, I don't think the review was very complimentary, your records need to be fantastically clean or you get tons of surface noise. In fact I think if you buy one it comes with a VPI cleaning machine.