{"id":82036,"date":"2022-09-29T19:22:57","date_gmt":"2022-09-29T19:22:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/teenage-engineerings-tiny-record-player-also-makes-custom-vinyl\/"},"modified":"2022-09-29T19:22:57","modified_gmt":"2022-09-29T19:22:57","slug":"teenage-engineerings-tiny-record-player-also-makes-custom-vinyl","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harchi90.com\/teenage-engineerings-tiny-record-player-also-makes-custom-vinyl\/","title":{"rendered":"Teenage Engineering’s Tiny Record Player Also Makes Custom Vinyl"},"content":{"rendered":"
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If you asked fans of Teenage Engineering’s musical toys and instruments what the company’s next creation would be, tHey probably assumed it would be a new Pocket Operator<\/span>, another speaker<\/span>, or maybe an update to the OP-Z. In reality, it’s the company’s first device that wholeheartedly embraces analog audio: a portable record cutter<\/span>.<\/p>\n

Analog audio formats once thought to be extinct are enjoying a surprising renaissance. Cassette tapes are finding their way back into stores and vinyl records are once again a booming business, despite the fact that most of us carry a device in our pockets with access to literally millions of songs. Does analog audio sound better than digital? That may be a debate that’s never resolved, but records do have a distinct sound that many prefer over the exacting perfection of a digital file, and now Teenage Engineering wants everyone to be able to make their own.<\/p>\n

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Fans of vinyl records and turntables might find the new PO-80 familiar. It’s a collaboration between Teenage Engineering, designer Yuri Suzuki, and the Japanese educational toy maker, Gakken\u2014although those last two have worked together before<\/span>. A few years ago, Gakken and Suzuki created the EZ Record Maker<\/span>which we covered back when it debuted<\/span> in 2020, and while we haven’t gone hands on with the new PO-80 yet, based on photos alone, it looks nearly identical to the EZ Record Maker, aside from some color updates and snazzy Record Factory branding.<\/p>\n

That’s not necessarily a bad thing, because getting your hands on the EZ Record Maker outside of Japan wasn’t easy unless you were willing to stomach some hefty import fees. The PO-80 includes both a tonearm that can play back five-inch or seven-inch (with an adapter) vinyl records as well as a cutting arm with a replaceable stylus that can engrave three minutes of glorious monophonic sound (at 45RPM) or four minutes of lower quality audio (at 33RPM) onto a five-inch vinyl disc.<\/p>\n

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For $149, the USB-powered PO-80 includes a built-in speaker, an extra cutting stylus, six blank five-inch vinyl records, and a 3.5-millimeter audio plug for connecting an audio source like a Pocket Operator synth. Teenage Engineering also sells a bunch of accessories including a $59 carrying case, replacement stylii for $15 each, and a 10-pack of blank records for $20.<\/p>\n

For those hoping for \u201cthe optimum sound quality for your recordings,\u201d Teenage Engineering has also created an online mastering tool<\/span> that \u201capplies the desired equalizer curve to your music and makes it easier to achieve good lo-fi sound quality on your custom 5″ cuts.\u201d Don’t expect miracles or a sound that compares to the pre-recorded vinyl records you can buy at a store, but when you’re dropping $2 on three-minutes of analog audio, you might as well do anything you can to make it shine.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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If you asked fans of Teenage Engineering’s musical toys and instruments what the company’s next creation would be, tHey probably assumed it would be a new Pocket Operator, another speaker, or maybe an update to the OP-Z. In reality, it’s the company’s first device that wholeheartedly embraces analog audio: a portable record cutter. Analog audio …<\/p>\n

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