I just saw today that Smart Devices is building and marketing the ELP laser TT again. The price is "only" $10.5k, pretty cheap to the price they went for back in the day. I'm not a vinyl fan, but I do wonder how it sounds...
I'd think that'd rock for the (rich) guy with thousands of LPs and also for your Library of Congress situations where you have a vast archive of stuff that you may routinely copy, since laser playing causes no wear of the grooves.
Very interesting stuff.