I bought me one a while back when with my artistic talent I painted it and Drew on it with surf boards on the top. When I wanted it like that to play my BEACH BOYS RECORDS. 👍🏻✌🏼
Fran Blanche I know right! I want one as a display. Go get a cheap old 1$ record place it on my record stand just for some fun. Especially when my niece comes over and wants to put a record on.
@@FokkerBoombass From that video I found out that there's a real vinyl version of the song but it's pretty expensive ($150 roughly) and I would never want to do this to it. Still, neat.
The fact that you are a middle aged, white Englishman with an extensive knowledge of old school American hip hop makes my heart so warm. I respect someone who doesn't let stereotypes define what they're allowed to appreciate.
I'm a spoiled comfortable middle-class white suburban kid who had aboslutely everything handed to him and I fucking love 80's-90's hip hop, particularly NAS and Rakim. I'm just the polar opposite of everything involved in their lyrical themes lol
@@robambrose4199but it would be moving with respect to the record. Only your viewpoint of it wouldn't be moving, same as your viewpoint of a record player's stylus doesn't move when you look at it.
@@mbvideoselection It depends on how fast the van drives compared to the speed of the turntable, and which direction both are going in. It would be hard to scratch records properly this way unless you are the Stig.
So, even when VW does give you an emission-free electric car (even it's a bit small), it still manages to damage the environment (your Vinyl records and your ear drums).
Great comment, that'll be a two groan rating on my kid's dag meter, which is getting harder to achieve the older they get. Brilliantly executed by the way. I also think sideways like this. Respect.
There's just something so amazing about records and I love watching them being played. "Lets cut grooves in this piece of vinyl and stick a needle in it to vibrate around!"
You've caused me to remember the first time our speakers cut out when my head was near the record player and it blew my freaking mind! Like, with tapes, I knew there was no sound if the signal wasn't sent, but realizing that records basically have a tiny version of the audio on them at all times.... Yeah, even decades later I'm easily amused. 😂🍍
"Hey I just bought the one record to complete my collection. $200 was worth it to have a record I'll cherish" "Cool let's drive matchbox cars all over it"
Yeah, I mean, it's a cute device and all, but I'd always have my heart in my throat about its possibly damaging the record, and it would be such a hog at wasting costly batteries, too. Just play the record on a regular turntable, for goodness sake. Some lovely music is not even out on CD, so I make DVD movies of old records playing; this way, I can get full-fidelity sound that I can listen to anytime I want, and I won't wear out the precious delicate record albums.
@Greg Oh, you're absolutely right, Buddy, and I think we all realize that... our main point here is that it seems crazy to produce --- or buy --- something that ruins a perfectly good record. Plus us old fogies feel a special fondness for old LP recordings, especially since a lot of the precious oldies music they contain isn't even being re-released on CD, and so we feel especially sickened to see perfectly good records being shamelessly/mindlessly sacrificed just for a chintzy novelty-item. Like I said in another post here, I like to preserve out-of-print easy-listening vinyl music by making DVD movies of the record playing, so that I can hear best-quality sound anytime I want, without wearing out the precious limited-availability original discs.
That speed controller is really genius. Love seeing clever engineers ply their trade in such a subtle yet impressive way. And of course great video as always. Thanks for taking a look at these more gimmicky devices from time to time. They really are neat but I wouldn't wan't to waste my own money on them, so thanks!
Aaah I always wondered how those things accounted for the difference in speed on the outside and the inside of the vinyl. Pretty neat, thanks for showing us!
Yep. And the reason I read it like that was because my bro told me about a BMW record player that looks like a well a BMW van and "ruined" the record. and I saw the thumbnail first.
TrashDeviant I'm a mechanic that specializes in European cars as well as weird stuff. One of my customers has a VW Vanagon (T3 transporter outside of the US) with a Subaru SVX engine. It's definitely much better than it was originally.
before its perfect it needs 2 changes: 1) the Chassis has to be changed into a Toyota Corolla / AE86 (aka hachiroku) 2) the last track on the Vinyl must be Deja Vu :D
I have an idea for one of these: it just plays music from a microSD but is otherwise silent. You just watch it trace the record for novelty, while getting listenable music.
Damn, if it weren't a vinykiller i'd buy that instantly and take it everywhere. That's like the best and random excuse to play vinyls everywhere. Edit: who ever starts to produce & sell a none-vinyl-killing version with both rpm's gets to be a millionaire. I swear, i'll buy that instantly.
There’s a new version called the RokBlok that does both RPMs and can do Bluetooth, guy made half a million selling his company on Shark Tank... still violently destroys records though.
Holdthetomato! CD's can be great, but they're definitely not better than vinyl. There are tons of modern digital formats that are way better than CD's too.
@@septum_funk There can be exceptions, when you take into account things like the Loudness War. Vinyl cant hold the same extreme volume as CDs, so it naturally limits how much record labels can distort the music away from the original in hopes that "louder music sells better".
That definitely was a bit of fun. Using a Dixieland band record was the perfect choice to demonstrate this thing as well. And we conclude with the return of our old friends--May they finally end this long, dismal winter and bring us the bright promise of spring.
I have a theory about the tracking force. When in use, it might be considerably less because the momentum from the high center of gravity would be tilting it away from the direction of the needle. It would still need to be high enough to not hop and skip out of the groove. Just a theory though
Does it have suspension? If not, then I doubt that would really be an effect you would see. As well, most of the weight is situated low on the device (the batteries), so it probably has a relatively low center of gravity. I don't think he got an accurate read of the tracking force, in either case.
Doesn't matter about suspension. If the weight of the machine is being shifted, it's being shifted; a vehicle without suspension can still be tipped over in a bend if its CoG is high enough and the wheel grip is sufficient to prevent them slipping instead, and in a constant radius/constant speed corner once the springs and dampers of a suspended vehicle have reached an equilibrium the force through the wheels will be the same as if it was unsuspended and merely had wonky axles. What's maybe more crucial in this equation is that the needle isn't really bearing a significant portion of the machine's weight - the two rear wheels, and the guidewheel up front do that. The tracking force is rather more to do with the weight of the cartridge and the assembly that holds it, forwards of the tracking wheel, and if they have any kind of spring force behind them also. After all, it will still need to ride up and down slightly vs the front wheel and the actual bodywork in order to account for any small bumps in the record surface. So the force might still lessen a bit as the body weight shifts, but maybe not by as much as you'd expect, or even the same proportion.
when they make records they usually use both vertical and horizontal grooves to maximize space on the vinyl so if the tracking weight of the VW is lighter due to centrifugal forces moving it outward then the needle would tilt more outward causing it sit outside of the center of the groove causing damage.
I remember many years ago every April, Audio Magazine would feature a review of a new product from Lirpa Labs (always fun to read the letters to the editor the following month from readers who were fooled). One year they showed Lirpa Labs' newest CD player, which was essentially the same thing as this, but used a string to spin around the CD.
I remember as a kid in the early eighties, going to the local art museum (Wellington) where there was an art installation of a small room, with a record on the floor in the middle of it and a Soundwagon going around playing. From memory the speaker was in the back of the van rather than the roof.
When I saw a toy car driving on a record like this in "Hen his wife", a strange russian cartoon, I was wondering if that is technically possible. I'm delighted to see that such a device actually exists and that the idea indeed works, even if it is not very practical. These videos are quite interesting and well presented, I'm happy I found this channel!
I’m surprised that Record Runner has an Audio-Technica AT3600 magnetic cartridge instead of the P-188 that the RokBlok has. The original SoundWagon from the 70’s used a mono Astatic cartridge, similar to the ones used in vintage kiddie record players, then the Astatic 89T
93SHADoW well it is a Japanese product... they probably would be ashamed to release any turntable product without overdoing the specs, even if it’s useless on a device like this
You should let the puppets have their own channel, they’re priceless. I’m totally serious, those two doing reviews and taking the piss out of tech would be hilarious, you’d hit 1,000,000 subscribers within a year!
I wonder if the technology is there yet to make a version of one of these with a laser stylus. Hmm, that gives me in idea for a record player design: a base with an electromagnet and an induction charger, and a laser stylus which hovers magnetically over the album in a self-contained drone-like device. No contact made with the album at all.
That actually seems reasonable, especially since all it would need is to be able to measure the distance between laser head and the record and I feel like I've seen something like that before
Another excellent video. I can see the pride you take in making these, and the joy you have trying out technology. Thanks for sharing your tallent and passion with us.
Great review, IMO. The device can ruin your records (if I had any), sounds lousy and costs a bunch (for what it does). Yet it is utterly charming and brought a big smile to my face.
Deja vu I've just been in this place before Higher on the street And I know it's my time to go Calling you and the search is mystery Standing on my feet It's so hard when I try to be me uoooh!
