Archive for the ‘Weird & Wonderful’ Category
A Record Player About As Portable As You Can Get
Wednesday, March 31st, 2010
GGRP have created an advertising mailer which is a record player that magically appears out of the cardboard sleeve of a 7″ record. See it in action here:
However, as with many seemingly new ideas, this one isn’t either. As Steve Roden from In Be Tween Noise kindly shows us.
From: Cardboard Record Sleeve Doubles as Record Player – Cardboard record player – Gizmodo.
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Enlarging The Groove 1000 Times
Friday, March 12th, 2010
Chris Supranowitz has made some images of a record’s grooves using an electron scanning microscope.
For comparison, here are the digital pits of a CD:
More images and the full details of Chris’ project.
Edit: 3/7/11
Just found another site with similar images but some more info on the mechanics of vinyl and styli. Check out Micrographia.
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Record ROM – PC to Portable Record Player
Thursday, February 4th, 2010
Jack contacted me to let me know about his Record ROM; an interesting design concept. The PS-F5 gets a quick nod during the ideation drawings.
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The Audiophile Club of Athens
Thursday, November 12th, 2009
An interesting short film from 2006 about Greek Audiophiles and their love for big, elaborate, expensive Hi-Fi.
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The Vinyl Project
Tuesday, September 15th, 2009
Nick Tann from Eastleigh in the UK has started The Vinyl Project, an attempt to achieve his dream of having his music pressed into vinyl.
In a nut shell, here is the basic plan.
Find 250 people to commit to pay £10.00 upfront for my VINYL album (the remainder will cost £15.00)
Find a studio that can record specifically for vinyl.
Record an album.
Master the tracks.
Press a minimum of one thousand records.
Distribute to the 250
Sell the rest
Nick Tann
Best of luck to you Nick- I’ll be following the project and may even lay down some dough. Sort of depends on what’s going to be on it.
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6 Things To Do With Vinyl Records
Monday, September 7th, 2009
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Close N Play
Monday, July 27th, 2009
70s greatness from the U.S.A.
Tags: close n play, kids, portable, toy, turntable
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PS-F5 Changes Clothes
Tuesday, July 14th, 2009
This must’ve taken a while to put together: a shoot of the Sony PS-F5 with a gazillion different records playing…
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Novel Way To Clean Records
Monday, July 6th, 2009
There have been times when I’ve bought records which could do with a really good clean. In future I might use this approach: to spread a thin layer of PVA wood glue over the record with a credit card, let it dry and peel it off. More information at Audio Karma.Via HiFi Tubes.Tags: clean, cleaning, records, vinyl
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Analogue Heaven
Monday, July 6th, 2009
From Alexander Robotnick & Ludus Pinsky’s Analog Session:Will be looking for that when it’s released later this year, hopefully on vinyl too.Tags: alex robotnick, analog session, analogue, house, ludus pinsky, studio, synth, synthesizer, techno
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