There’s a thing called the RokBlok. It’s a Bluetooth device that rides around on your vinyl album and “plays the record!”
It should be called the CrockBlok. Or RektBlok. It chews up your album and it sounds ridiculously horrible.
I guess this is a novelty item that will fascinate people who never had a turntable.
The illogical RokBlok plays the Logical Song —>
A full review says STEER CLEAR!
That’s what modern music deserves, scratch the hell out of rap and M&M records.
Oh and jazz too. God I hate jazz. Liberals love jazz, know why? Take a guess.
I’d rather listen to a 50 piece orchestra of synchronized deflating “Woopie Cushions!”
Sounds like cats beaten to death with bagpipes.
Not PC,
Whoa there. I’m definitely NOT liberal, and I enjoy jazz.
Robert on Shark Tank bought it outright for $500k. That’s how I knew it sucked before it even came to market.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xdTkL_hqTww
Makes good music sound like Chinese music.
Hmmmm… lemme guess where it wuz made.
eternal cracker p – that demo on Shark Tank was like lip-syncing.
The thing starts out in the middle of the record, but clean audio is delayed and starts at the beginning… obviously from a different source.
“What a piece of junk!”
~Luke Skywalker
People say that todays devices produce better quality sound that back in the days of turntables. I don’t agree. I’ve tried all the new crap and nothing compares to my old equipment. I’ve spent and wasted too much trying to replicate the sound I once had from a quality stereo system.
organgrinder – I’m with you on that! I have a mix of old and newer equipment that I collect. There are some very good high end pieces made toady, but for the average user a good, old belt-driven turntable with a decent magnetic cartridge is hard to beat (although I prefer a direct drive myself).
TheRatFink: A good pickering diamond needle and a strobe speed control turntable. Yupper!
Vinyl & vacuum tubes Bro…
Thorens 124 and a sweet 6V6
push-pull amplifier.
Pickering, Shure, Empire, B&O and Ortofons are in my stable.
Oh almost forgot – the original GE magnetic cartridge (VR from the late 40s) on a Metzner Starlight transcription turntable.
When we were kids we had a plastic turntable that worked like this: the arm was imbedded in the lid so you had to close the player to have it play. Once you put that lid down you heard all kinds of scratching and squeeling. We always figured that the lid had to be down to prevent you from actually witnessing your LP being destroyed.
The sound on that thing isn’t horrendous – it’s terrifying. Imagine walking into a filthy, dimly-lit basement with that thing playing in the distance.
Maybe it would sound better if it was manufactured with oxygen-free components.
Is it really that hard to buy a turntable for less than a hundred dollars?
A friend had one of these twenty-five years ago.
Tamco Soundwagon (Vinyl Killer) Recordplayer VW T1 Bus
https://youtu.be/GNowLvmIPoo
VW Bus Record Player w/ Original Record VW Van
https://youtu.be/lEsOLbW2INM
Since we’re talking about scratched vinyl records…
Why hasn’t anyone leveraged optical technology to make a touch-free vinyl record player? It should be similar to how sound was played back in early motion pictures.
@TN Tuxedo January 29, 2018 at 10:17 am
> Why hasn’t anyone leveraged optical technology to make a touch-free vinyl record player?
Conservationists (and geeks with somebody else’s lab) have been doing it for years. As in decades.
My wife’s nephew hosted a birthday party with a ’50’s theme. They bought a bunch of used vinyl records to use as place mats. Some of the titles were classics or very rare. They didn’t have a clue what they were destroying, and when I gave them a clue, they still didn’t care.
I don’t miss the crackle and pop of vinyl, though they were getting much better before they were obsolete. The custom when I was young was to record the vinyl onto a high quality cassette, store the vinyl until the tape wore out, then repeat.
I haven’t had a decent player for decades, so my vinyl collection gathers dust and I look for digital sources for the same music.
Good HD audio played back on an appropriate system is pretty good.
TN Tuxedo: I was just thinking the same thing. We’re 20 years into the 21st century, and nobody has produced an inexpensive, laser-based no-touch record player?