Vinyl Nirvana Awaits

[Punter]

Well folks, this is a turn up for the books. The redoubtable Teenage Engineering has launched a very decent looking disc cutting lathe.

Not much detail yet as far as pictures go but it looks pretty serious. Price on application but suggestions are running at around US$30,000.

There's a short video of it operating here

Not sure what is being cut in the video in the form of the master but I get the impression that the machine is intended for live cutting onto a vinyl blank.

The main thing I'm after with this is that vinyl tragics will now be able to make their own discs and in the process, discover how many compromises have to be made to transcribe music onto a plastic round-thing with a squiggly scratch on it! Then they will know that vinyl is the purest form of recording and reproduction!

 

[beeface]

teenage engineering's industrial design is truly superb

hopefully a product like this can be used to help independent musicians make more money. vinyl might not be high fidelity, but its resurgence in popularity is ultimately a good thing when you consider the toll that piracy then streaming has taken

 

[Chrispy]

Still so limited....

 

[kemmler3D]

It definitely looks cool, and I give them full credit for making the transition from electrical and software engineering (their synths) to pretty serious, if not cutting-edge (ha) mechanical engineering here.

 

[MattHooper]

Well folks, this is a turn up for the books. The redoubtable Teenage Engineering has launched a very decent looking disc cutting lathe.

Not much detail yet as far as pictures go but it looks pretty serious. Price on application but suggestions are running at around US$30,000.

There's a short video of it operating here

Not sure what is being cut in the video in the form of the master but I get the impression that the machine is intended for live cutting onto a vinyl blank.

The main thing I'm after with this is that vinyl tragics will now be able to make their own discs and in the process, discover how many compromises have to be made to transcribe music onto a plastic round-thing with a squiggly scratch on it! Then they will know that vinyl is the purest form of recording and reproduction!

Awesome.

I’m going to buy one of things to make backup copies of my records.

You won’t catch me digitizing my vinyl!

 

[MarkS]

Hope you don't have any MoFis ...