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yukbon

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Gimmicky? Yes. Good? Dunno



Definitely eye catching, which leads me to assume the sound is going to be compromised
 
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I think it's a pretty rad little table. Expensive? Sure. But hand-made and aesthetically very attractive.

But I have a soft spot for linear trackers, and it's very cool to see someone making one from scratch. The Verge had a fun review.
 
I think it makes a great conversation piece. I'm skeptical that the physics of vinyl playback are well-managed.
 
I think tracking and anti-skate is going to be a bitch on that thing and it's going to be real easy for it to either just not work or to dig trenches in LPs.
 
yukbon said:
I think tracking and anti-skate is going to be a bitch on that thing and it's going to be real easy for it to either just not work or to dig trenches in LPs.
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I believe I read that tracking force is measured and adjusted electronically in real-time. Anti-skate is not an issue with linear trackers.

These folks have put the work in.
 
I don't doubt that they have put in substantial R&D to make this product. Tracking is of concern in a vertical arrangement, since a good deal of the work in tracking a record conventionally is done by gravity and following a single continuous groove. The ability to maintain tracking force at +/- 0.2 grams is one of my points of skepticism. That sounds like a fairly expensive mechanism in low volume, to do correctly. Gravity is cheap and accurate by comparison. Particularly knowing that records are often not truly flat.

I'm a bit of a traditionalist in many ways, so there may be better options that I have not seen or experienced yet. Hell, I just bought a new turntable that looks like it could have come straight out of the 70's!
 
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I don't doubt that they have put in substantial R&D to make this product. Tracking is of concern in a vertical arrangement, since a good deal of the work in tracking a record conventionally is done by gravity and following a single continuous groove. The ability to maintain tracking force at +/- 0.2 grams is one of my points of skepticism. That sounds like a fairly expensive mechanism in low volume, to do correctly. Gravity is cheap and accurate by comparison. Particularly knowing that records are often not truly flat.

I'm a bit of a traditionalist in many ways, so there may be better options that I have not seen or experienced yet. Hell, I just bought a new turntable that looks like it could have come straight out of the 70's!
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I just think it's cool that there are folks out there trying to apply modern technology to vinyl for the first time since the 80s.

There are a treasure trove of classical, gimbaled belt- or direct-drive tables on the market, but very few companies using the world's readily-available microprocessors to re-implement stuff like linear tracking. I'm all for it.
 
kvetcha said:
I just think it's cool that there are folks out there trying to apply modern technology to vinyl for the first time since the 80s.

There are a treasure trove of classical, gimbaled belt- or direct-drive tables on the market, but very few companies using the world's readily-available microprocessors to re-implement stuff like linear tracking. I'm all for it.
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We want lazers!
 
how does it know how to skip a track? also the idea that you can just hold the side of it to stop it makes me a bit scared.

i think it definitely looks cool! i dig a linear tracker. didn't see the price tag on it yet...
 
kvetcha said:
Put it this way: if I see anybody drooling over a Sony Flamingo and then pooh-poohing this thing, I'm calling shenanigans.
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Wow, that was a flashback! I had to go back to see what happened...

playback.fm

This Record Player Looks Like It's From the Future - It's Really Just a 1983 Product Flop [VIDEO]

Check out Sony's Flamingo (also known as the PS-F5 &PS-F9). It was cutting edge design, but just two decades late. However with a vinyl revival, a recent Kickstarter has raised over $1.5 million for a similar concept.
playback.fm playback.fm
 
MikeH said:
how does it know how to skip a track? also the idea that you can just hold the side of it to stop it makes me a bit scared.

i think it definitely looks cool! i dig a linear tracker. didn't see the price tag on it yet...
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If it's anything like my wife's Technics, it has an optical sensor that can detect the gaps between the tracks, and then maps them to memory so you can skip forward, back, or even jump to a specific song.

Doesn't work on transparent records, obviously.
 
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