An Exhibition of Japanese Portable Record Players

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48 points·kafkaesq··10 comments

The 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

There's a modern one which is of a similar design, called the LP 2 Go

http://www.ionaudio.com/products/details/lp2go

I remember when records were pressed into the back of cereal boxes. Those were made for those portables!

I wonder what the keyboards are for / how they worked. No digital synthesizers that small for cheep then.

Probably just a simple analog oscillator. You know for that extra warm sound that record player listeners love.

Would be cool if it controlled the playback pitch, but I doubt it.

All you would have to do is change the RPM speed of the motor. It could be quite simple.

The 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

I 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.

Wow they are So beautiful...

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