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Re: PO-80 Record Factory

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Post by andrewmcwatters »

Aside from the fact that this is a rebrand effort and probably not TE's manufacturing, their mainline products have particularly high quality design.

I've been watching a lot of AvE[1] lately, and his BOLTR series features him breaking down hardware and talking about the manufacturing.

While Teenage Engineering wank is definitely not his category of analysis, it's probably not far off, considering he highlighted how spotty the Dyson product line is. I'd love to see him disassemble something like the OP-1.

Edit: Missing link reference.

[1]: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChWv6Pn_zP0rI6lgGt3MyfA

Apparently, OP-1s use CNC'd solid block aluminum machining![2]

[2]: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8mqO7pVBxRQ

Re: PO-80 Record Factory

#32

Post by lukevp »

andrewmcwatters wrote: post #31

Aside from the fact that this is a rebrand effort and probably not TE's manufacturing, their mainline products have particularly high quality design. I've been watching a lot of AvE[1] lately, and his BOLTR series features him breaking down hardware and talking about the manufacturing. While Teenage Engineering wank is definitely not his category of analysis, it's probably not far off, considering he highlighted how…

What’s AvE? You left off the link. Sounds interesting, want to watch the Dyson teardown!

Re: PO-80 Record Factory

#33

Post by andrewmcwatters »

lukevp wrote: post #32
andrewmcwatters wrote: post #31

Aside from the fact that this is a rebrand effort and probably not TE's manufacturing, their mainline products have particularly high quality design. I've been watching a lot of AvE[1] lately, and his BOLTR series features him breaking down hardware and talking about the manufacturing. While Teenage Engineering wank is definitely not his category of analysis, it's probably not far off, considering he highlighted how…

What’s AvE? You left off the link. Sounds interesting, want to watch the Dyson teardown!

Sorry about that! Thanks for pointing it out. Viewer discretion: language.

[1]: DYSON ANIMAL BALLS | It blows! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPTzNJMd19A

Re: PO-80 Record Factory

#34

Post by benj111 »

mmastrac wrote: post #30
benj111 wrote: post #26

Earlier quoted context omitted.

The read/write thing got me on the train of thought of DVD-RW. It uses 5 in discs so an LPRW would fit in a standard bay. If it records at 33 and plays at 78 it's even a LPRW X 2.23! I wonder how much data you could store...

Based on cassette data rates using audio encoding, and a total hand-wavey ballpark of ~10kB/min using modern encoding techniques, I'd totally guesstimate about 100kB of data on there.

Well that's more than enough for anyone!

Re: PO-80 Record Factory

#35

Post by JansjoFromIkea »

Price wise this seems alright to me, I imagine it's a bit cheaper than their usual things because it'll become a thing a decent number of people use to make things like rewards for Patreon supporters, zine bonuses, etc. Production costs of £2 plus postage per (potentially) personalised 5" seems pretty good to me for all involved.

A tangent but it's crazy how bad their LED matrix for IKEA is, I like the speakers and all on an ornamental level (especially with the 3D printer potential) and the matrix could be super neat (even with the lack of dimming options) but the patterns and sound responsiveness are so terrible it's a bit baffling they let it go out in the condition it went out with... I'd actively keep it away from the rest of the set so I didn't have to underwhelm people by showing how bad it is (until I get around to modding it, anyway)

Re: PO-80 Record Factory

#37

Post by alangibson »

andrewmcwatters wrote: post #31

Aside from the fact that this is a rebrand effort and probably not TE's manufacturing, their mainline products have particularly high quality design. I've been watching a lot of AvE[1] lately, and his BOLTR series features him breaking down hardware and talking about the manufacturing. While Teenage Engineering wank is definitely not his category of analysis, it's probably not far off, considering he highlighted how…

It's a shame he doesn't do many BOLTRs anymore. His output slowly petered out during COVID.

Re: PO-80 Record Factory

#39

Post by throwing_away »

LegitShady wrote: post #25
colechristensen wrote: post #13

Earlier quoted context omitted.

In the age of AI fakes and perfect high fidelity available to anybody, the “crap” noise and distortion of this kind of thing is going to become a signal of reality that will be sought after.

Ya they just invented distortion no one does that in music right? It's not like they make pedals and plugins specifically for distortion. Instead you should pay TE for this revolutionary rebranding of an existing device. It's nonsense sir.

It's really no more nonsense than lo-fi tracks having rain sounds in the background or hiphop producers running old school beats through a 12-bit sampler to crush it up a bit.

Producers use a ton of subtle tricks to make you unknowingly enjoy their work more with a touch of nostalgia.

My Roland sampler has a "simulate vinyl" effect that's trying to do the same as this product, but in software.

Re: PO-80 Record Factory

#40

Post by LegitShady »

throwing_away wrote: post #39
LegitShady wrote: post #25

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Ya they just invented distortion no one does that in music right? It's not like they make pedals and plugins specifically for distortion. Instead you should pay TE for this revolutionary rebranding of an existing device. It's nonsense sir.

It's really no more nonsense than lo-fi tracks having rain sounds in the background or hiphop producers running old school beats through a 12-bit sampler to crush it up a bit. Producers use a ton of subtle tricks to make you unknowingly enjoy their work more with a touch of nostalgia. My Roland sampler has a "simulate vinyl" effect that's trying to do the same as this product, but in software.

Yes as I said there are already many distortions and bit crushers in use by people making music today, this little overpriced record cutter isn't revolutionizing anything because of distortion.
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