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APC–2 – A professional record cutter for producing original playback discs

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Re: APC–2 – A professional record cutter for producing original playback discs

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Post by Lio »

Waterluvian wrote: post #14
Arainach wrote: post #2

Not even a price listed. I don't understand the market for this - fancy musical instruments for creativity, sure, there's a market, but who wants to own cutting vinyl? How many records would you need to make for this to be more economical than paying a dedicated shop? How many would you need to do to "achieve higher quality"? How consistent are your results?

I have a real “I was born yesterday” feeling having realized that “Teenage Engineering” has nothing to do with making audio tech accessible to young newcomers.

Is that entirely fair?

Their Pocket Operators are pretty cheap and accessible.

Re: APC–2 – A professional record cutter for producing original playback discs

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Post by [deleted] »

999900000999 wrote: post #30

Very strange. It appears they’ll just rebrand a few record cutters and call it a product. TE always comes off as really low quality for the types of prices they charge. The MPC Sample is 400$ and looks well built, the KO2 is 300$ and has faders falling off. Roland has a few samplers in the same price range as well.

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Re: APC–2 – A professional record cutter for producing original playback discs

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Post by Triphibian »

navaed01 wrote: post #10

In a world of digital rationality, I’m glad teenage engineering are here to design the absurd and analog. It doesn’t make rational sense - and I think that’s the point

Sometimes it is nice to have one thing that does its one job extremely well.

Re: APC–2 – A professional record cutter for producing original playback discs

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Post by [deleted] »

gregsadetsky wrote: post #62

Unrelated, but related - if you want to have 1 record made, reach out to https://recordcut.com/ Their hours are "2:30 PM to 12 Midnight", I sort of believe... 7 days a week? Rich will actually answer the phone, and guide you. I've done it a few times (it's an incredibly cool gift). A single record is $12. Extremely worth experiencing it.

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Re: APC–2 – A professional record cutter for producing original playback discs

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Post by saligne »

Stevvo wrote: post #89
dackdel wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

id pay to watch mkbhd(or similar) review the apc-2. and compare one made on apc-2 to someone like recordcut(or similar). that said. im glad companies like teenage are catering to the whimsy. because why not. im sure it will sell out. and they will stop producing it after they have scratched the itch of wanting to create a product like it. and hopefully after that we can get our hands on the un-redacted files.

Why would you pay for a review from a smartphone reviewer who likely has never listened to Vinyl?

Shill fetish

Re: APC–2 – A professional record cutter for producing original playback discs

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Post by aaroninsf »

darnfish wrote: post #13
klodolph wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Teenage Engineering seems to run partly on hype and halo effect. It makes cool things you can’t afford, and you buy something cheaper. Selling a vinyl cutting machine keeps them in the news, which keeps them in your mind, and then you think about how you always wanted an OP-1 but oh maybe you could buy the EP-133 instead. I’m sure there’s a price at which the vinyl cutter is profitable.

It's also possible that TE are full of people who are passionate about design and sound and want to work on and release interesting products in that space. Not everything is a psyop

They're passionate about style and brand, not design and sound.

I say this as someone with expertise in a domain they nominally targetted.

Very "cool" looking kit, but: missing basic features, unremarkable in those provided; serious issues rendering it fundamentally inappropriate for its nominal application.

Re: APC–2 – A professional record cutter for producing original playback discs

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Post by geokon »

I wonder if it can make a flexidisc

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flexi_disc

I remember to listening to some in my childhood and never understood why the tech was not the standard (relative to the brittle cumbersome vinyls). Maybe the sound quality is worse. Unsure

Re: APC–2 – A professional record cutter for producing original playback discs

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Post by dackdel »

Stevvo wrote: post #89
dackdel wrote: post #87

Earlier quoted context omitted.

id pay to watch mkbhd(or similar) review the apc-2. and compare one made on apc-2 to someone like recordcut(or similar). that said. im glad companies like teenage are catering to the whimsy. because why not. im sure it will sell out. and they will stop producing it after they have scratched the itch of wanting to create a product like it. and hopefully after that we can get our hands on the un-redacted files.

Why would you pay for a review from a smartphone reviewer who likely has never listened to Vinyl?

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Re: APC–2 – A professional record cutter for producing original playback discs

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Post by emj »

rtpg wrote: post #16
PCI-eX16 wrote: post #15

our shared vision is to enable access to anyone who wants their music or sound on a physical record. FWIW, You can get 100 records + jackets printed professionally for ~$10 a pop. Gakken toy record cutter is low quality, but costs $160. I wonder what this would cost. Surely it's impractical for personal use, as marketed.

The Gakken toy record cutter was only 8000 yen when it was released[0]. My spouse bought one on a whim. The quality is ... quite bad. It's a tool for learning about how this works though! So it was a fun little activity. But it really is "just" what it is. Maybe Teenage Engineering's toy that looks like is exactly the same tech is better. I have my doubts. [0]: https://hon.gakken.jp/book/1575072200

The two groove cutters(?) on the APC-2 look like the weigh more than that toy cutter. It is interesting that this prints in realtime is that a toy thing?

Re: APC–2 – A professional record cutter for producing original playback discs

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Post by [deleted] »

Arainach wrote: post #2

Not even a price listed. I don't understand the market for this - fancy musical instruments for creativity, sure, there's a market, but who wants to own cutting vinyl? How many records would you need to make for this to be more economical than paying a dedicated shop? How many would you need to do to "achieve higher quality"? How consistent are your results?

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