turntable value- $9 plastic cat value- $120

@DougFrantz

4 жыл бұрын

It looks like you can get them on Alibaba for $0.10 USD... but it requires a 3000 min purchase... So in a certain wait you're def getting a deal, and avoiding too much of a good thing.

@DaneHawthorne1313

4 жыл бұрын

Douglas Frantz , you can never have too many of those plastic cats.

@H.EL-Othemany

3 жыл бұрын

@Round like a Ball no it's not. It's not all made out of cardboard just the case..

@gator_productions

3 жыл бұрын

300 likes

Even though the turntable is rubbish, thank you techmoan for taking the time to make and upload the video

@charlesbaker7703

6 жыл бұрын

Benjamin D Minor -- Agreed. Not every project (or Kickstarter) is successful but that's often when we or the audience can learn the most. But I imagine Techmoan was probably tempted to quit this before he was finished wondering if it was worth his time especially since it takes longer for him to document/film the process and there's no "wow" at the end. Did I learn much here? No. Do I applud him for finishing this and uploading the video? Definitely.

@glassyxanderplaysminecraft8340

4 жыл бұрын

My 25€ turntable has the same plastic mechanism. I wanna cry now.

@TBL_stevennelson

4 жыл бұрын

He doesn't get paid enough for this one 😂 thanks for taking one the team

@maximilianfischer8899

3 жыл бұрын

@@glassyxanderplaysminecraft8340 if you will ever read this: don't cry, just watch VWestlive's Video that is called:"are crosley recordplayers really that bad"

You sir, are without a doubt. The most fair, honest, and modest, reviewer I have ever seen. The simple fact that you take a portion of the blame for such a obviously junk record player; proves it to me. I always enjoy your videos and appreciate all the hard work you do.

This is one device that's not going to see a "Techmoan Bump" in cost to acquire. You're a better man than I.

Wowzers.... they out-Crosley’d Crosley.

@dysomniak

6 жыл бұрын

And you pay double the price of a Crosley for the privilege of assembling your own cardboard enclosure.

@dysomniak

6 жыл бұрын

Dude, everyone knows. You don't need to keep spamming the same thing over and over again.

@tamazonx

6 жыл бұрын

The Cardboard Crosley Cruiser TM

@dysomniak

6 жыл бұрын

Why are you so invested in this idiotic pedantry?

@kingreid1994

6 жыл бұрын

I never thought a Crosley would look appealing.

1 minute in and I'm already wondering how this can be a 100 bucks... Kickstarter truly is a marvelous place.

@KingofHearts67

6 жыл бұрын

Hipsters will pay anything

This is painful to watch... It's like being scammed in slow motion.

@stefanrogers9448

4 жыл бұрын

You are not wrong...

@LunarEclypse

4 жыл бұрын

If it is 10 or 20$ it might be worth getting not 109$

@oddball_the_blue

4 жыл бұрын

"But moving on...."

@stephenmeinhold5452

4 жыл бұрын

lol so true.

@jesshadfield3566

3 жыл бұрын

It's a 40 dollar record player 3 times the price in a cardboard case that you have to assemble

The Nintendo LABO looks great

@wii1245

5 жыл бұрын

SeireiART labo, labo!

@moeta486

4 жыл бұрын

A LABO turntable would actually be pretty cool, maybe a DJHero style game could be made? >tfw replying to 2 year old comments

@arandomfromtheinternet105

4 жыл бұрын

L

@theprocooker8951

4 жыл бұрын

@@moeta486 a LABO turntable? 🤔 is that possible

@lillithyukiutacrow2532

4 жыл бұрын

@@theprocooker8951 possibly... i have ideas just don't know how to word it (story of my life 🙂)

The black plastic cat makes it all worth it.

@jjjoshiii6659

6 жыл бұрын

Scott Plumer NO

@Yukatoshi

6 жыл бұрын

Scott Plumer Cats are always worth it! :P

@Wallyworld30

6 жыл бұрын

The cat is supposed to attach to the top of the stylus to stop it from skipping. Good lord how many grams would that weigh?

@Yukatoshi

6 жыл бұрын

Marty Moose Well my cat weighs about 4-5 thousand grams.

@markpotter6186

6 жыл бұрын

That's absolutely correct! Forget the turntable and tell us where we can get our hands on one of those cats!

oh dear what pile of s*** , i feel sorry for anyone who purchased it

@tomtomski4454

6 жыл бұрын

But still a piece from charity shop paid 5$ is better than this crap.

@somitomi

6 жыл бұрын

Well then it's horribly overpriced, isn't it? If I wanted a cheap plastic turntable I'd just buy an old Tesla one for an eighth of the price and enjoy the retro look.

@Stormwatch153

6 жыл бұрын

Jakub Klimczak Of course not, this is strictly for the people who hate sound.

@hurkamur1

6 жыл бұрын

SomiTomi Never heard of a Tesla turntable. We didn't get them here in America.

@OhFishyFish

6 жыл бұрын

I don't. I always supported taking money away from idiots before they do something stupid with them.

This reminds me of a note on the back of the Tubular Bells sleeve - Something along the lines of 'This record cannot be played on old tin boxes no matter what they are equipped with. Anyone in possession of such equipment should hand it in at the local police station' :-D

@guardianofmortality

3 жыл бұрын

i want that record!

This is hilarious. The nicest bit about those cheap portables are the nice wooden box. This is the same internals in a cardboard box. It’s seriously like someone was looking at a 25 dollar Polaroid turntable and said, how can we make this worse? I could kind of at least understand it if it was super cheap.

@catmeowsthegrass2663

6 жыл бұрын

Bmac 814 haha yea I found a broken ion turntable with the same mechanism but at least it had a really nice fake woodgrain fiberboard stand

@mcearl8073

6 жыл бұрын

cat meows the grass Yea same here. I found a cheap portable with the same mechanism inside for 25 bucks, still new in the box. The wood case is pretty nice too for being fake wood and it has a battery in it. It definitely isn’t a great player but it’s fine for my kids to play with, I doubt a cardboard one would fare very well with kids.

@finncool

6 жыл бұрын

The internals are not the only thing that's the same. It's just a random kit they put in a cardboard box and sold. You can find the same system in the Ion max lp. Which is cheaper and has a better housing.

@azop

5 жыл бұрын

I bet you can find those same turntable parts from ebay and make your own player... Only thing they did was packaging, instructions and precut cardboard parts

@Kelvin5378

4 жыл бұрын

You can get a portable Crosley for cheaper and it probably sounds better if not the same lol

Might be fun for $15

@Hurricanelive

5 жыл бұрын

I agree, 25 bucks max for garbage you'll toss after 2 hours. For $110 that should at the very least be a 2pc vacuum plastic shell (probably come shattered). Red/White, Blue/White, or Black/Grey, or a choice of 4 colors for top and bottom you mix/choose.

@slaughterround643

5 жыл бұрын

it would be good for £20-25 for custom 3D/laser-printed projects or something, but that's only because 3D printers and laser cutters are fun

@Onio_Saiyan

4 жыл бұрын

If I got to build the tonearm and platter assembly, I would probably pay fifty for this.

@mcearl8073

4 жыл бұрын

Slaughter Round Yea, if it was laser cut wood that would at least be kind of nice looking. This is a joke really. I bought my 6 yr old a cheap Polaroid branded turntable and I think I paid 30 bucks for it. It is basically the same mechanism as this one but it has an 18650 battery in it and it’s in a decent looking wood(ish) box. I got it to play some children story books we found at a flea market. It’s junk but at least it’s priced accordingly, this thing is way worse and way more expensive.

@karvast5726

2 жыл бұрын

Might be fun for 30 to 50 if it wasn't made out of cardboard i can see it being usable

Judging by the weedy output, I suspect that they've deliberately filtered the low end to stop the bass feeding back into the lightweight construction.

@paulbennell3313

5 жыл бұрын

Not going to get much power from a 5v supply anyway. I suppose the feedback suppression takes care of itself...

@muddysledge

4 жыл бұрын

Yeah but they could have at least rolled off the lower frequencies at the speakers and not botched the line out. It seemed thin even when he connected it directly to the camera. No redeeming features to this pile. Very well done video as always though.

@notvalidcharacters

4 жыл бұрын

The smart(er) thing to do --- on that point alone anyway --- would have been to decline to make the world's only turntable with speakers in it but that would require knowing in the first place why that isn't done.

@Apo458

2 жыл бұрын

It's not that, what actually happens is that these cheapo mechanisms don't match correctly the impedance that these ceramic cartridges need, which causes the tinny sound and the lack of bass. Ceramic cartridges are quite hated because of their poor sound quality, but in fact a ceramic cartridge can sound fantastic, it's just that manufacturers are too greedy and lazy to match the impedance.

Amazingly, the makers of the SpinBox appear to have broken one of the fundamental laws of reality. Because putting this thing together looks to be about as much fun as assembling flat-packed furniture, but the end result is even less satisfying.

2:02 "ITS MY DECK IN A BOX" ... way to use that expired meme

Referring to nuts as bolts is still a more accurate description than calling this thing a record player.

@davidbutler8096

5 жыл бұрын

Read through all the comments looking for someone to call him out on this...thank you, sir.

$100 for a cardboard record player? You can get a real Technics one on ebay for about $50

@macnerd93

6 жыл бұрын

I’d only buy vintage Turntables from the 1970s and early 1980s probably go for something like a nice Pioneer with a wooden case, Toshiba, or even one of the Beograms by Bang & Oulfsen.

@YAUUN

6 жыл бұрын

have you seen how staggeringly cartridges & styluses for Beograms can get?

@subcoded

6 жыл бұрын

The Rolling Troll ...NO WAY... probably you listen a defective one

@YAUUN

6 жыл бұрын

Thinking about it, I think this was designed to be something like those expensive educational toys from Japan that Techmoan occasionally looks at. But for some reason they decided to market it as something else.

''Great for professional scratch DJs.'' What a claim! It does not look to have the integrity to scratch an itchy back. They should have scratched the back of their head before writing that.

@DragonGrafx-16

6 жыл бұрын

I saw that... lol as someone who has done a bit of scratching before... a cardboard turntable would fall apart instantly.

@cletusspuckler2243

6 жыл бұрын

David Guetta would fall in tears if he reads ...."Great for professionnal scratch DJs " :-(

@stevesstuff1450

5 жыл бұрын

May not be any good for a DJ, but you can't deny that it WILL scratch....and tear-up, any record played on it!! Ha Ha!!

@muddysledge

4 жыл бұрын

My cat might like to scratch on it....

@klausstock8020

4 жыл бұрын

@@muddysledge Now we know why the plastic cat is included...

For $25, I went to a GoodWill store and picked up a decent stereo turntable/dual cassette deck/amplifier and two speakers. The unit even has an aux input. And I didn't have to assemble it myself. I can appreciate the novelty of the SpinBox, but not for $109. Thank you for throwing yourself on this grenade, Mat.

So basically you get a more expensive unassembled Crosley that you put in a cardboard box.

@thephoenixhasflown

6 жыл бұрын

No man, the Crosley has a radio in it that can actually DX on am. What you're getting is a sub Crosley in a Asterix can Asterix some assembly required but not nearly enough.

The actual mechanisms, or at least something similar to the one used for that player were on eBay for about £8.🤣

@Kelvin5378

4 жыл бұрын

Well yeah it's basically the same as a Crosley

@mikcnmvedmsfonoteka

4 жыл бұрын

@@Kelvin5378 I bought for 30 EUROS Crosley clone, its ok, unfortunaly one of speakers doesnt work but otherwise its fun toy, i can run it from battery pack

@oscarivanmucinovargas3417

3 ай бұрын

​@@Kelvin5378 He too Victrola

"Spinbox plays all sizes and speeds of vinyl records..." Funny, I didn't see a 16 2/3 rpm setting on the speed selector. :(

A cardboard box - is there anything it can't do. ~Solid Snake

@C0SMICP0PE555

5 жыл бұрын

You're pretty good.

@amysmith7998

4 жыл бұрын

💕💕

@syahminorizan8064

8 күн бұрын

Snake, try to remember the basics of CQC

Great video! Hilarious, I like hearing techmoan being cordial and polite! Spin box is a ridiculous piece of shit! There I said it! Seriously though it should be 19.99 usd at the most

@BertGrink

6 жыл бұрын

I bet the chinese could sell one just like it for under $10 lol

@bennylofgren3208

6 жыл бұрын

It sure sounded like quite an effort for him not to let the sarcastic tone of voice out... :-)

@georgestewart5879

6 жыл бұрын

+ BertyFromDK, and free shipping.

@wargamingrefugee9065

5 жыл бұрын

Without trying very hard, I found the exact same thing on Amazon (Entirely pre-assembled in a genuine particleboard cabinet!) for US$39.99 with free shipping. It's the Pyle 3-Speed Stereo Turntable, just in case you're in the market for something to bash to bits with a hammer. :-)

@catinusz.4741

2 жыл бұрын

@@BertGrink 10 is probs way too much, the components costs 3-4 bucks at most.

As always, your reviews are great, even if the equipment is not. I, too, notice the whiners and cheesers in the comments, and love your little disclaimers throughout your videos, or the personally amusing puppet sketches. Overall, "The perfectionist takes criticism hard; and their own, hardest. Yet, appreciation is more valuable than gold." You, sir, are appreciated by me.

You know Techmoan, listening to it through your external speakers and directly through your camera input, it definitely sounds to me like the channels are out of phase. Probably the amp input is cross-wired in this... thing. :)

@notvalidcharacters

4 жыл бұрын

Excellent observation, I agree

They raised $250k for this?! Laughing all the way to the bank encumbered with sacks of notes I imagine

Ah kickstarter, where shit that should never get made is born.

it would be nice if they shipped it in a wooden box or MDF instead of cardboard

@BLY99

6 жыл бұрын

It would have been nice if they actually used good quality cardboard instead of this crap. Most electronics come in better quality boxes and you throw that shit away. Even Nintendo Labo uses better cardboard.

@thehappylittlefoxakabenji8154

6 жыл бұрын

MDF is pretty much cardboard when its thin enough

@SianaGearz

6 жыл бұрын

If it shipped in a wooden box, it would be the same as any of the existing competing products using the very same player module, and most of them cost just a hair more than half of what this does.

@cletusspuckler2243

6 жыл бұрын

Just keep the cardboard parts as model , take a few measures and make the Spinbox out of wood , it would be more solid than cardboard , and varnished it would be nicer than white cardboard , varnish is easier to clean too .

@andthen0170

4 жыл бұрын

Cletus Spuckler and Siana... you guys r missing the point- the componentry is crap

*wow, so much effort for a wibbly wobbly cardboard box* speechless 😶 Besides the all plastic player component it's very thin cardboard as well. Wow. Just... Wow.

Great video as usual Mr Techmoan! Got my AT LP60 USB from Richer Sounds on black friday last year for £70. They regularly drop the price of this turntable so people should look out for a bargain. Sounds out of this world and I highly recommend it. Best wishes.

Thank you for your videos, they truly bring great pleasure to me and (I'm sure) many others. When I'm feeling down, your videos always help bring a smile to my face and a sense of wonder to my being. Thank you again.

A record player in a cardboard box. That pretty much sums it all up.

Great video on the bullshot that is available to crowd fund. My heart sank when you opened the box. Someone somewhere has made a pretty penny on that tat. How you kept your irritation and frustration out of the video is outstanding. Thanks for posting.

You did a really great job with the scripting, presentation and editing as usual.

So basically, somebody has bought the cheapest turntable mechanisms they can find on Alibaba and thought "hmm, how can i milk this for as big a profit as possible?... i know! cardboard case!... and a kit!, i'll chuck in a stick on plastic cat to make it cool and edgy, kerching!".

@davidannett3322

6 жыл бұрын

Mrcento nailed it!

Sometimes you just got to take one for the team... Great work

EXACT turntable assembly as a Crosley I stripped for parts. Parts I deemed worth keeping......the 45 spindle adapter

Nice to see you held onto this mechanism and used it to make that PSA.

Matt is having sooo much fun...

So if it's not fun, it's not educational, and it doesn't sound good... oh, and it isn't cheap... why does it exist? Looks like total shite.

@danxepha4535

6 жыл бұрын

It exists purely to make money for the creators. They had no interest in making a quality product. They just wanted to make as much cash as possible from gullible buyers who thought it would be interesting or "fun".

@White-Wolf1969

6 жыл бұрын

The term for these abominations is made by hipsters for hipsters.

@xaenon

6 жыл бұрын

+Fraser McFadyen I wouldn't even dignify it by calling it shite. This is literally (and very blatantly) engineered for an expedited trip to the landfill. I honestly doubt it'd last more than a few months at best. Last Christmas, I saw actual Crosley players on sale for about $85. Cheaper and no assembly required, and probably the same (or very similar) mechanism and electronics. And you could return it if it was defective. PT Barnum was right. There really are suckers born every minute. The fact that they raised a quarter of a million dollars to 'develop' this product is proof.

@amihartz

6 жыл бұрын

Because it's a brand new product, if you compare it prices of used turn tables or mass-produced ones of course it'll be higher. But if the concept caught on these things would drop in price drastically easily reaching like $20 maybe. But obviously they're not going to catch on because everyone here seems to hate the idea.

@davidannett3322

6 жыл бұрын

It's mind boggling how many backed this thing

Because of this channel, I have the urge to put together a vintage record/cassette stereo system together including vacuum tube amplifiers :)

My daughter loves playing with my spinbox. She loves looking at old sleeves from 1970s Sesame Street records. Let's just say I'm glad I bought the extra styluses because she's probably going to break one!

*it's my deck in a box*

@beermanuk

6 жыл бұрын

Step one: cut a hole in the box

@jonc4403

6 жыл бұрын

That sticker was probably the single best part of the record player.

@cryptnotic

6 жыл бұрын

Maybe that is the source of the trademark dispute, not the name Spinbox.

@RaccoonHenry

6 жыл бұрын

brilliant! you genuinely got a loud laugh out of me, my good sir doge!

@richfiles

6 жыл бұрын

Step two: Put a Crosley in that box

Mat, based on your direct feed test, it seems the audio is playing out of phase. Not sure if this is due to the headphone output, or the cartridge wiring (possibly from the factory), but this would help explain the lack of bass and perceived volume. If the internal speakers are playing in mono (L+R combined) and the cart is wired out of phase, then there would be cancellation happening.

You didn't do this properly. Gotta connect it to the Nintendo Switch's controller for it to function properly!

This video makes me appreciate my old Heath Kits which I still have & still works to this day. :)

so basically what you (we) got here is a hipster version of the Crosley player

I fail to understand why anyone would buy this at the current price. If it was $30, maaaaybe, but not for $100 + shipping. I just recently picked up a Technics SL-D3 direct drive turntable from a local thrift shop in perfect condition for $120 (CAD, so more like $100 USD)... Only problem is it doesn't come with a plastic cat :(

@zubberification

6 жыл бұрын

Amazing what people back on kickstarter. Someone should should kick start a campaign of emptying out a rubbish dump. For only $99 plus shipping you will get a garbage bag full of garbage! Oh and a shout out!

@PhonyBread

6 жыл бұрын

Just take those rubbish bags and market them as personal assistant robots. That's basically what half of kickstarter is doing at the moment, anyway -_-

@charlesbaker7703

6 жыл бұрын

I'm guessing it's the "educational" benefit of having kids put it together. A lot of "educational" products sold as gifts are that, especially being overpriced.

I'm new to LP players and all that jazz and me and my dad were discussing expensive players and how it's better to have a heavier player and then this video appears... Fantastic

@TovaHolmberger

3 жыл бұрын

I love how this is way more complicated than building a computer, yet it's a simpler machine than a computer is.

Just watched this and loving the bass sounds at the end of the video 😀!

Should have called it the 'scambox' - doubt that would have attracted an intellectual property claim ;)

$110 + shipping for a crosly cruser you assemble your self... ouch... that's gotta sting.

As Always, Thanks for Showing! Greetings from Brazil.

World Record Club! It was quite exciting getting deliveries when I were a lad.

Dear Mat, I remember some KZread reviewer using the scales to check tracking force of this type of tone arm at the point of stylus contact. It was apparently nearer to 2grams or so. I think that the spring applies downforce and that at the actual height of the lp it is correct. Thanks for a fascinating review. I suspect a conical stylus on this kind of arm would be less harmful than we think. My seventies records were first played on old BSR players and still sound fine on my better turntables. Thanks again. Shawn

@ddanny3108

6 жыл бұрын

You could try “cheap turntables are they really THAT bad” at a reviewer’s site. I’m into separate arm and cartridges on my record players from the early 80s and was a record player snob. However, I was surprised by this video where the reviewer weighs the tracking force at the record’s level. Apparently the spring applied downforce is dependant upon its height. Keep up the excellent work. I enjoy every video! S

@chaos.corner

6 жыл бұрын

Makes sense. F=kx

I'm a simple man. I see a Techmoan video. I watch. I like.

Those plastic Crosley turntables are great for recreational customs. Saw a fellow on reddit put one in his dead NES and it plays just as it should. It’s great for aesthetics less so for quality

As much as you hated building it, I enjoyed watching you build it. It was worthwhile by me!

@jonc4403

6 жыл бұрын

Ok, yeah, it was fun to watch. Needed muppets, though.

what a rip-off

@n4thb4dc0

6 жыл бұрын

Unarcadia Arcadia most Kickstarter things are a rip off

@polygondwanaland8390

6 жыл бұрын

n4thb4dc0 A damn shame too, because there's a very few diamonds in that rough.

@Mrflash222006

6 жыл бұрын

Nah it's more of tear off and punch out

looks like the perfect turntable !!! when you hate vinyl ;-) lmao

Very good review as always.

Thank you for spending both your hard earned money and time for our enjoyment!

Brian (Mr. Regular) from RCR brought me here a couple years ago and I've thoroughly enjoyed your channel since. This was another great video, thanks.

@beetooex

6 жыл бұрын

Not a car

@skipnick

6 жыл бұрын

this comment is the yugo of comments. it wasnt pretty, but it was necessary. - me trying to be mr regular

@alexb.6986

6 жыл бұрын

NOT A CAR

@danielmoukli4590

6 жыл бұрын

*NOT A CAAAARRRRRRRR*

@BandanazX

6 жыл бұрын

Needs more BROWN

Why would someone want this over a normal player?

@Agamemnon2

6 жыл бұрын

As a novelty or for a kid, mostly.

@chpoon3814

6 жыл бұрын

As Techmon said on video, it can be learn how the mechine work

@ParasiteXX

6 жыл бұрын

More like a novelty to hipster man-children hyped up on soy.

@RevRaptor898

6 жыл бұрын

I guess you wern't paying attention dude, He said it can't be used as an educational aid, it's all pre assembled :)

@hurkamur1

6 жыл бұрын

ParasiteX Don't disrespect the wonder plant.

Videos like these are strangely addictive!

landfill straight out of the box. How convenient. Now people can skip the boring "using it" stage of having a product, and throw it out immediately. Genious!

Being an owner of an Audio-Technica LP60USB, I can honestly say that for the money, it is a decent turntable. It works and it puts out decent sound. I can't wait to replace it with a better model or my step-dads really good turntable that only needs a needle. For the price, the LP60 does get you a conical diamond stylus and the upgrade to the elliptical stylus and beefier belt really makes it the best cheaper turntable out there.

Always love a new video! Especially vinyl related.

This thing puts that 'keep from moisture' warning on a whole new level.

This whole product perfectly encapsulates the Millennial Generation. They like to think they are doing something nerdy, but it's really just like lego jr. building, and they don't care about the quality of sound or what it does to their records, the "I'm trendy!" points are earned on aesthetics alone.

This just seems like yet another sub-par product cashing in on the popularity of vinyl... it's not as bad as the RokBlok but then again nothing is.

They include the cat (called Mr. Smoothy) to stick on the tone arm to reduce bass.

Just saw this video. For what it's worth, despite any frustration or disapointment there was here, seeing you find that little plastic cat made it all worth it. LOL!!!!!!!!!!!

Cool of you to link to VWestlife.

If you want to squeese something edcational out of it, what about a follow up video where you try and mod/ rebuild this thing for better preformance?

@retrocomputing

6 жыл бұрын

Alex Brohm it would need replacing every part, so like building a new TT from scratch.

its a shame the mech is so crap, a bit better quality and those cards would have made nice templates to make a wooden case.

Thanks for getting through with it!!

another excellent video - thanks!

My reaction at 0:58 was "You've been had! That's the same turntable unit on my £40 USB record player I bought at the weekend." The best I could say about that was, it didn't scratch any records.

@retrocomputing

6 жыл бұрын

LUNATIC75 it's scratching the grooves so you don't have pops and skips but sound quality is worse every time you play the record. Just get a better TT (manual only, no USB) for 200 dollars used if you want to save your records

@jonc4403

6 жыл бұрын

To be fair, all record players do that, the crappy ones are just a bit faster at it. If you don't want sound quality to be worse every time you play something, you're going to have to go digital.

@retrocomputing

6 жыл бұрын

Jon C if you're not going to play one record 500 times and more you may not notice sound degradation with a decent turntable.

I instantly recognized that mechanism, it's the same general design used on cheap stereo tape deck record player combos since the 80's, mass produced and utterly garbage. Just type Yorx stereo record player into google images and you'll see many examples.

@andreiandrosoff1327

6 жыл бұрын

Ah Yorx, and its shitty cousin, Candle.

@dashcamandy2242

6 жыл бұрын

Don't forget GPX! :-)

@strugglingparodox5709

6 жыл бұрын

What's really bad is,, you can buy just the record player module new for about $11, to $15.

@cletusspuckler2243

6 жыл бұрын

RTDragonCommand I've worked many years in an after sale shop : i know those Yorks devices , sometimes branded Alba or Prostar , depend of the place they where sold : very crappy speakers , maximum output 1,5 Watts RMS : those "stereos" where designed for children use . The hight end versions where sold with a cd player and a better amplifier and speakers .

@coydog7902

5 жыл бұрын

Omg I have a Yorx turntable combo! Yes! The turntable is cheap plastic but it still works!

I absolutely love your videos And all the neat items that you managed to get and find.

@bsiever007

6 жыл бұрын

I found him here as well here is the link: spinbox.backerkit.com/hosted_preorders

I like watching assembly videos so this was fun to watch even if it wasn't a good product.

The only good thing about this is the black plastic cat.

A preview of Nintendo LABO!

@Dan-TechAndMusic

6 жыл бұрын

Mario LaMaestra I actually got a Labo ad before the video.

@cwoanthony

6 жыл бұрын

Man... I might get this guy more subscribers... Great channel.

That mechanism is the exact same one I have in my cheap, $30 turntable that I got when I first learned about vinylite records. I wouldn't be surprised if the speakers were the same as well.

Great review. Reminds me of when happy meal boxes had punch-out pieces you could fit together. JUNK!

At first i think: "well, buy some balsa wood and make a neat case for this..." after the video i think: "No..."

The Nintendo Labo of turntables. Except the Labo isn't an enormous crock of shite.

As always great video

As always, a thumbs up.

$25 and I would buy it for fun. But this is ridiculous. Nonetheless: thanks for the video.

Just what I've always wanted: a cardboard turntable. ;) smh I'm in no way an audiophile but even I can tell this is a bad idea.

Apples and bananas, Matt. I enjoy the the product of your show, thank you

My local retailer was selling a cheap record player already assembled for about $40 on special, and it looked like it has a similar mechanism, but would likely be made from mdf, rather than cardboard. If it was a lot cheaper, I think it could be good for kids to play with though. I think it was really the price that was the problem. Not sure if it had bluetooth?

would made a good project if you had a 3D printer

@CatheteriZedEYE

6 жыл бұрын

spot on :)

@purplehazeffc

6 жыл бұрын

Even thou it is shit quality. Would look good if you used the cardboard as a template & used some nice timber..

@greenaum

6 жыл бұрын

Maybe if you shredded it, then melted it down into filament. You'd get something useful for your money. You'd be able to print out a small plastic cat! That'd probably break...

@greenaum

6 жыл бұрын

Nah it'd still look poor even with timber. The shit lowest-quality plastic and awful components would then be the worst part, not the cardboard.

Looks fun if it was wood!

I think this was fun to watch.

I went onto eBay for a bit and found, at the time of writing this, a Technics SL-J92, a direct drive linear tracking turntable with track-skipping and a swanky LCD display for $128.94 ($89.99+$38.95 S&H). It's no SL-10, but it's quite good--for six cents cheaper! That said, this is a good video, it's like the opposite of that Technics turntable and bad speakers one; a crap turntable going through, at least for a little bit, your very nice speakers.