Archive for March, 2010
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:
[youtube]u7CL0n5rR70[/youtube]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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Discogs: Vinyl revolution – Interview
Tuesday, March 30th, 2010
Resident Advisor, an online dance music magazine, has a good article about Discogs: the music discography and marketplace which has a definite leaning towards music stored in grooves on vinyl.
RA: Discogs: Vinyl revolution – Interview.
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Sony PS-F5 on eBay
Thursday, March 25th, 2010
Another PS-F5 on eBay- this is an auction, it’s currently at US$137.50 and not met its reserve with 3.5 days to go.
Sony PS-F5 Portable Record Player – eBay (item 160416167576 end time Mar-28-10 19:39:09 PDT).
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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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A few PS-F5s on eBay
Monday, March 8th, 2010
First up has a Buy It Now of US $500.00 with missing battery cover (see the Spares & Accessories page for info on where you can buy a reproduction battery cover), no bids so far with 2 days to go.
time*inc, eBay seller of aforementioned repro battery covers is also currently selling a dead PS-F5 for spares or repair with a buy it now of $224.99
And decobob’s PS-F5 with its (slightly tatty) original box is up again with a Buy It Now of $550.
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