Archive for the ‘All things vinyl’ Category
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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Records for iPhone — Digger’s Dream
Thursday, October 22nd, 2009
Here’s about the only thing that would make me consider getting an iPhone:
It’s an app that interfaces with the Discogs website (using their API) and allows you to browse through the huge online database of records and other media. A digger’s dream.
Hoping they bring out an Android version as that’s my planned next phone, as soon as a decent one is available.
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Video: Digging In Chicago
Tuesday, September 15th, 2009
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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
Read it at My Kingdom For A Margarita Posted in All things vinyl, Weird & Wonderful | No Comments »
For Sale: The world’s largest record collection
Tuesday, August 18th, 2009
“This is a short film I made about the owner of the world’s largest record collection. This film probably best represents the direction I see myself going as a director. I love everything about it. It’s my baby.” Sean Dunne: Director
The Archive by Sean Dunne is the story of Paul Mawhinney’s record collection, which is now up for sale
I hope Paul’s collection gets preserved in its entirety somehow soon. Such a huge slice of history which, sadly, no one seems interested in.
Tags: Paul Mawhinney, record collector, record rama, world's largest record collection
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Crossley Traveller Portable Suitcase Turntable
Friday, August 7th, 2009
Not much technical information here, but first impressions are that it’s well made. On sale at the moment here too Posted in All things vinyl, Related Devices, analogue | No Comments »
Big Bird’s on the cut
Thursday, August 6th, 2009
Think I saw one of these in a shop in Santa Cruz, California. Unfortunately it was closed.Tags: big bird, kids, plastic, portable record player, sesame street, toy
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Baird Emerson Wondergram
Tuesday, July 28th, 2009
First produced in London by Baird in 1960, this is probably the first portable record player to have a similar form factor to the PS-F5. Definitely a direct ancestor.
The design is truly ingenious, open the lid, pop your disc onto the spindle and gently place the needle on the end of the tone arm into the groove and it starts playing. The record is spun by a pair of wheels set into the top of the case, they are spaced so that the innermost one drives 45s, and the out one drives LPs. To stop both wheels trying to drive the disc at the same time the inner one is slightly smaller, so that when you are playing an LP it doesn’t come into contact with the record. The speaker is on the underside, and you would think that the sound will be muffled, but they have that one covered. Three spring–loaded feet raise the player off he ground, allowing the three-transistor amplifier full reign to blast your socks off. Actually it’s not that loud but it’s enough to fill a small room – providing there’s not too much background noise…
From Dusty Gizmos.
Lots of photos and info on Electric Gramophone, including a complete strip-down.
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