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An Exhibition of Japanese Portable Record Players
- Ericson2314 10y agoI wonder what the keyboards are for / how they worked. No digital synthesizers that small for cheep then.
- StudyAnimal 10y agoProbably just a simple analog oscillator. You know for that extra warm sound that record player listeners love.
- kaffeemitsahne 10y agoWould be cool if it controlled the playback pitch, but I doubt it.
- gcr 10y agoAll you would have to do is change the RPM speed of the motor. It could be quite simple.
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- TD-Linux 10y agoThe SOUND BURGER, on page 11 of the linked book, is truly both the best looking and best named record player I have ever seen. http://rittormusic.tameshiyo.me/9784845627226?page=11 http://rittormusic.tameshiyo.me/9784845627226?page=11
- therealidiot 10y agoThere's a modern one which is of a similar design, called the LP 2 Go http://www.ionaudio.com/products/details/lp2go http://www.ionaudio.com/products/details/lp2go
- Asooka 10y agoI recall seeing concept art for a CD player with the same design. Unfortunately, CDs have to spin at much higher RPMs so it can't really work. Or rather, it can work, but it will double as a saw for any finger that wanders too near the edge.
- Animats 10y agoThe main US equivalent was the RCA 45 RPM record changer. The same mechanism came in many different cases, but the players all look similar. This unit introduced the RCA phono jack, which, unfortunately, is still around. [1] http://phonojack.com/RCA%20Victor%20Collection.htm http://phonojack.com/RCA%20Victor%20Collection.htm
- WalterBright 10y agoI remember when records were pressed into the back of cereal boxes. Those were made for those portables!
- soufron 10y agoWow they are So beautiful...
- Gravityloss 10y agoI think they look good because they don't have what is nowadays called "design". They don't have excessive unnecessary distractive nonfunctional shapes. They don't have styling.