For Singles Only - A $29 toy record player for 7" & smaller records 

'' It sounds bad, but is still a fun toy''. That's what girls said about me in the 90's...

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I'm married. I know the video says "for singles only", but can I still watch?

Finally, some cute singles in my area! Love your video titles, they always make my day.

@ 18:25 As a kid from the late 60s - early 70s, I would have loved that GE unit, The AM radio is a "killer app", Being able to store a few records AND have a radio actually puts it ahead of most portable CD players from two decades hence!

To be fair: The outside is well made and looks good. The rest is just a waste of ressources.

The days when VWestlife uploads a new video are the best days

" *one stereo speaker* "

i have a 7 inch 45 record called 'man on the moon', philips label, says 'this pressing is an historic souvenir exclusively for news of the world readers'

I still have thousands of 45s from the 60s and 70s. That are still in pretty decent condition. This new player sounds interesting. As always great review...😊😊 and I also remember the Soupy Sales Show on Channel 5 in New York City. That show was very funny.

I would consider one of these small "high-efficiency" speakers that you can get pretty cheaply and sounds as good as those small portable bluetooth speakers you can easily get nowadays

The wow and flutter was just terrible. When listening to those music cuts, it sounded like constant key changes in slow quarter tone fluctuations. I don't miss those days.

Thank you for another great video. An excellent review of the record player. Love the channel and can't wait to see what video you will have next.

This would be perfect for the Star Wars read-along books 😁

I bought the other model of this, blue one with the battery power option. I was not under any illusion that it would sound any good. I have a couple of other turntables for good sound. I bought as it reminded me of the toy record player I had as a child and there is something quite cute about it. I just have it open and on display. If a child comes to visit this is the one I will allow them to play with. Also I was amazed how well packaged it was, as it is essentially just a toy.

its stereo sound coming out of one speaker. what a great invention!

I really enjoy these weird little turntables, and I'm really happy to watch your videos on them. I'd be tempted to get some of these otherwise.

7:15 I ran it through Shazam and it recognized it as Beyond Discovery by Electro Alien Beat. lol

Not too bad for a toy. Honestly it's probably built better than the cardboard record player I had when I was a little kid lol... except mine had an AM tuner in it, like a newer version of that vintage one you showed. It's cool that they designed it to play those 3" records too. You know what would be cool? if someone made a 45-only record changer, like the new version of the original RCA ones. After all, it would be nice to be able to play a bunch of 45s without having to change them every few minutes, and they are designed specifically to be stacked. Maybe this device can have its own built in amp, and also an option to plug into a receiver.

Notice, at 08:54, the indent at the center hole, which was at the correct thickness to work in changers such as the RCA 9-JY from 1949. I don't know why so many manufacturers refused to follow the original RCA design, which would have made record changers that much more reliable. This is why I can't put a stack of newer 45s on a spindle and expect them all to play. But, in the early 1950s, manufacturers were more careful, even on kids records. I bet that Soupy Sales record was on vinyl, too! BTW, I didn't realize about the ruby styli, because I thought sapphire was about as cheap as they went for cheap styli. Now I know better, because I've come down with a case of 45s lately, and a lot of them are styrene!

Even for a kid wanting to get into records, I'd pass on giving this thing, and I'd just get them a 1/2 decent used turn table that can play all sizes/speeds, a USB powered amp, and some basic bookshelf speakers.

Sounds like my sister’s Show and Tell 7:09.

"Japanese" ceramic cartridge.

6:53 The german Single release of Heavens on Fire from Kiss is also pressed on Styrene. I've never had a Styrene before, they are so uncommon over here...

Soupy Sales ahhh yes. I want you to go tru your parents pockets and send me all that dirty green paper that's in them....🤣🤣🤣🤣

The best thing here is the box of plug adapters.

I enjoy your videos as they are very informative and also, very fun and very entertaining. I never get tired of watching them. Just an FYI; Polystyrene is injection molded, not pressed like vinylyte, which is the lighter equivalent of vinyl. Plus, on polystyrene injection molded singles, the labels have to be applied onto the record manually. Thanks again for another wonderful video.

Those Bose companion computer speakers you showed are actually pretty nice for being Bose and how small they are, I found a pair being thrown out and took them home and their impressive for how small they are. The turntable like most MPK things is an absolute toy. I wish I had bought one of the Vestax portable turntables when they were common, those were actually very decent.

I have this! Cute as a pin!! Sound is ok if you remember tiny record players of the 1960s!!

Excellent thorough review

The association that does all the Record Store Day releases released a couple of those 3 inch records, and that micro-turntable with the Audio Technica stylus on it

I got the 3 inchs model that looks like an 80's Technics as a gift for my daughter for her birthday. It was expensive and she didn't like it as it was very bad for playing those small records.

The noticable speed variations when you were playing back music was the most objectionable to me. It does need a better motor.

I can still remember those little portable battery operated record players that were around in the 80's when I was a kid. My cousin had one that actually had little disco lights in the lid. It was really cool and didn't sound too bad but they were better quality players back then. I bought one of those styrene 7" 45's from a local charity shop a few years back, though I can't remember what it was called. It sounded so scratchy it was unlistenable. I guess someone had played it on a very worn or dodgy stylus. Had to throw it away which was a shame. Styrene records are not that common over here in the UK though.

does anyone else remember the rhythm guitar being on the right side in Jimi Hendrix foxy lady and it going into a full stereo pan when he went into the solo and foxy being on both the left and right at the same time like an echo??? Because that one is bugging me and bugging me every single time I hear the song.

glad when i was a kid the little kids record player i had was actually pretty good. of course this was back in the mid 80's when they were still good quality. i don't remember the brand but it was a good little one, just played 45's and was about this size

I goofed. This video's only been on here for 11 months, but how hilarious that is, with the slurred speech sound of "A Long time Ago". I laugh about every time I hear 👂 it. 😆 😆 😆!! Your friend, Jeff.

The "stereo speaker" claim is amusing: a singular speaker being stereo is impossible or nonsensical, right? But if I had to come up with a definition of a stereo speaker, it would be that the one speaker is playing both the left and right channels, so it's kind of correct, from a certain perspective.

I'm diggin' those 45s!

They make pretty cool looking products though. The colors are trippy. I bet in a blind listening through a quality stereo system and modding the player for stereo I could fool some people into thinking it sounded like an expensive turntable.

I haven’t really seen any 7 inch records for sale at all after vinyl became popular, so I wonder for who this is made since collectors won’t come near those things. And Childen aren’t exactly interested in older music.

MPK seems to be obsessed with 7" records

Very informative about the stylus. I have one of these record players and was playing “ Pete’s Dragon” Walt Disney Read-a-long record which unfortunately I found out too late that it was styrene! Yes, it was ruined but I managed to find another record on eBay.

Yeah, I know who Soupy Sales is. I really like your case for the 45's. It's really 1950's style--just the thing for sleep-overs!

Thanks for the shout out!

Great item to get youngsters into the world of vinyl at a very low price!

This could make a nice DIY project to upgrade to some reasonable specs. Redesign the PCB with some readily available modules, some filtering, adding some weights to the platter to minimise wow and flutter, a better speaker...

Soupy Sales was a well known American comedian from the 1950s and 1960s. He had a kids show called "Lunch with Soupy Sales."

So this thing has a stereo tone arm and stereo amp and stereo headphone jack yet it's mono all the way. I had the Sega Game Gear which had mono from the built-in speaker and stereo if you plug in headphones. I wonder if a mod can be done to the circuits of this player if it could be modded to play mono from the built-in speaker but stereo through the headphones jack.

Vinyl wrapped vinyl player 👍

12:36 The Middle Ages called, they want their song back.

That speech is on the track APOLLO XI by OMD on the album Sugar Tax.

This channel deserves my subscribe button

Thinking about taking one of these on my next holiday to England to check out vinyl i'll be purchasing from flea markets. I'll just have to remember to take the 3 pin to 2 pin power adapter, the 240 to 120v adapter, the single spindle adapter, the single to jukebox record adapter, the headphone to phono adapter for the graphic equaliser to improve the sound, the phono to headphone adapter for the bluetooth transmitter and might even upgrade the cartridge to magnetic, So I'll need a magnetic to line level pre amp adapter, A counterbalance adapter to lower the weight. Or I might just buy something better without the adapters!

I wonder if you could improve it as it's so easy to take to pieces buy adding sound deadening material inside also I wonder if you could fit a better quality speaker inside

Thank you for showing us this wonderful turntables. In Argentina is very hard to get this (taxes) and they are very expensive thanks to our 150% inflation rate so we enjoy how is the real World. Regards from frozen Patagonia.

Great video as always buddy!!! I love your record player reviews!! Any word on anyone making a new record changer for 2020?

Hey my brother and i collect some of pacific stereos gear and was wondering if you could review there ELC cassette line? Theres only two models

for some reason ive got a saying stuck in my head about record players of which I can't seem to find where I first heard it or read it the higher end of the recommended tracking force comes from the engineers, and the lower end comes from the companies marketing department

I think it can be improved a lot by matching the correct impedance to the cartridge and fitting a better speaker

This week, I just found some of those 78rpm 7” discs. Never heard of them before. I was confused and surprised. The ones I bought are on the Bell label

Soupy Sales was a regular panelist on the 1960s game show, "What's My Line", and was one of only a few comedians signed to Motown Records.

as that runs off 5v, you could fit 4 AA nimhs with simple charge circuit(resistor or small bulb 😉)

D'oh! When I watched this video yesterday I was a bit confused by the title. I was wondering why married people couldn't use this. Now I realize he means music singles, not relationship singles.

Yes, the weight on the tonearm here , may not actually cause record damage persay, but it will wear out records due to the weight on them, it will wear records out though

I added a better 3" parts express speaker and got much better audio. Also to make the midrange better you can get a $5 preamp to match the impedance.

If you removed the mono speaker and put in two small stereo speakers will it be stereo?

You might as well use the bigger brother suitcase by MPK since it can play small records too.

Great video! I am also wondering what the music at the end of the video is. (19:30)

The cost, and for what it is, being for children, I think it is actually good, not taking into consideration the tonearm weight , but it is good.

I have a copy of the Bingity Bangity Bus book, which gives no suggestion that an audio version ever existed. Interesting. (I know who Soupy Sales was, but postdate his activities to the best of my knowledge.)

Where can we buy this record player 🤔 👀 ?

where could I get onewould love to have one for the music room for decoration

Why no built-in large hole adapter on the turntable? Since that is going to be the most common 7" record to be played, why not have a lift & twist large hole adapter built into the turntable?

I remember Soupy Sales.

It’s like a little baby Crosley Cruiser

I bought it knowing it would be awful . I gutted it .. replaced the horrible rumbling motor with a good one.....removed the awful speaker and amplifier..... box says STEREO but of course it's not.....installed a stereo amplifier that gave significant volume and better sound ...changed it to a 3 speed to accommodate the many children's records I have that require 78 rpm . replaced the platter with one the same size except its metal ... added a stereo / mono switch and there's also a line out .... memory foam on the inside open areas to absorb resonating vibration from the increased loudness....replaced the phono cartridge with a flip stylus for both microgroove and 78 groove records. yes, this was a lot of work but I love it . it's a far cry from something that would normally get purchased and immediately thrown in the garbage

Good lord that wow and flutter...and i thought my panasonic stereo had terrible flutter lol.

Sounds like anyone buying this would be better off lighting their BBQ grill with the $29 instead. At least you'd have a burger to enjoy in exchange for that money. These types of cheap electronics are just landfill fillers.

records in the early 70s were in stereo. there were mono pressings for radio. every early 70s record i have is in stereo.

What kind of alignment protractor is that?

What is the instrument referenced on the final record? "Cordeaux"?

Classy fisher price job

Hey! That's a THREE SPEED platter motor. A two-speed motor doesn't need that five-pin terminal block. Of course, the 78 speed circuit (which would have its own trimmer pot) isn't there.

I have a few Fidelity HF 42s lying about at home. Still works great.

had the book and was banned by our parental units from watching soupy sales . gah , am revealing my age .

This MPK 7” record player can also play Japanese 8ban 3” records from Japan. “Techmoan” made a video about the Bandai 8ban 3” record player on his channel. ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-zW7XLBrBByA.html

Ooh I want it it's so cute! I doubt it will work nearly as well as ones from the 60s tho.

Hey there! Did you verify the claim that it had a genuine belt drive? Just curious.

Sounds like it's raining outside

I was more interested in Mary mc Teague’s record player...let’s see a review of that one

The Holidays on Track Records? According to wiki, they were not one the Kit Lambert Track Records. So this must be a small company before 1967

I'm going to be charitable and assume that it's designed to play stereo records. (stereo cartridge), even though the output is mono.

How meny turntable do you have

I remember having 7" 78 records, however they were mostly children's records.

They really should make one with a 5v input to run off of portable phone chargers

Dang, this thing could have been soo good, but alas, it is not. The mono speaker and headphone/speaker output would make something like this a non-starter for me. Plus, that wow and flutter though... WOW! (no pun intended, hehe)

Cool

Way does it really not play both channels as 1in mono?

omg i had that bingity bangity school bus record and book!