rhea jeong: 'void' LP player

video?

This is absolutely an INSANE concept Bless the inventorr!!! is it available how much & where?

awesome concept. couldn’t work. stop freaking out. It’s fun to imagine it could be real. Any one who truly appreciates vinyl for its pure sound would be too freaked out to use an unbalanced player anyway, so calm it down.

I’ve got one, and it works great. The sound is awesome!!
Oh, wait a minute, that was me in the alternate universe of seventh (or was it the ninth?) dimension…now where did I put that string.

If you have to write two paragraphs then you need to get friends that listen to you sometimes.

If have two paragraphs of praise then you are exempt from that last comment.

If this thing is real, then let it be.

But when I see it in the store, THEN we can talk technology

I don’t know if this thing works at all, and I’m sure it wouldn’t sound good or be gentle to the LPs if it did, but it’s a novelty item.
I don’t see why it can’t work, at least badly, while looking cool. The design is pretty straight forward if you analyze it calmly.
A ferrous/magnetic disc is attached to the underside of a vinyl LP. An electromagnetic field is generated by the base (claimed to be electronically controlled) that makes the LP levitate but not spin. No black magic so far.
A red ball with rubber wheels locked to the approximate angle required to circle the LP is gently placed on top. A stylus (needle) that supplies its own tracking force (in dependant of the weight of the red ball) dangles from the bottom and traces the LPs grooves as the ball ‘drives’ itself in circles around the still LP. A tiny speaker plays out of the top of the ball, badly reproducing the sound recorded in the LP while looking really cool doing it.
If the ball is light enough, the magnetic field levitating the LP is strong enough, and your expectations of audio reproduction low enough it seems like this could function. Other than levitating the LP, it’s not far removed from the early 1980’s toy VW buses that could play stationary LPs (after a fashion, anyway.) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0uYsjs_xleg

looks purty. won’t work. that angle shown would make the needle skate across the vinyl surface. even if the electronics are compressed inside that ball, you want to have as LITTLE weight as possible pushing that needle down. cute, but no sale. there’s a reason that audiophile turntables are designed with heavy bases, to eliminate the vibrations that would otherwise cause the platter to wobble, as this ‘concept’ would seem to allow the record to do. i understand that a concept doesn’t need to be practical, but there has to be a line between practical and ridiculous. This isn’t science fiction. It’s space opera. And not particularly good space opera, at that.

That’s sic!!!! Though I highly doubt I’ll be replacing my Technics SL-QD33 with one of these…

Here’s a philosophical question-if this is a “concept” with no regard to practicality, would it be appropriate to call it fantasy as opposed to science fiction which would have some theoretical basis in reality even if that reality is artificial? Either way, would the “concept” explainers say the same thing if the product being shown were a 200 story building suspended from a satellite by dental floss. It is just a concept, you see. Oh, and this thing could never work.

looks awesome

a definite buy! – regardless of audio quality

purely for looks