TheRokBlok Reviews Are IN! – It’s Horrendous! – IOTW Report

TheRokBlok Reviews Are IN! – It’s Horrendous!

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!

23 Comments on TheRokBlok Reviews Are IN! – It’s Horrendous!

  1. 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.

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  2. 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).

  3. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. @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.

  6. 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.

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