Beechwood speaker simulates the resonance of vinyl records: If you’ve fallen in love with the sound of vinyl records but can’t bring yourself to invest time in the hobby, the Louis speaker by Paolo Cappello might be exactly what you’re looking for. The speaker is completely free of electronic components and uses the shape of the smartphone dock on top to project your digital music through the large, trumpet-like opening. The sound augments music with a deeper, hollow tone that the video describes as “warm,” but it hardly sounds similar to an actual record to me.
The Record Room To Move From Old Town Scottsdale to North Phoenix: Hopefully, we are long past all of the silly chatter about vinyl being dead and no one caring about buying records anymore. At least around these parts, people can’t seem to get enough of the spinning platters. The massive crowds that flood local music stores on Record Store Day alone should be enough to shut some mouths and lay those thoughts to rest. Take The Record Room. The store has outgrown its former location in Old Town Scottsdale and is in the process of taking over a much bigger space in northwest Phoenix at 2601 West Dunlap Avenue.
This Star Wars hologram vinyl record is mind-blowing: “Walt Disney Records is set to release a new hologram vinyl version of the original motion picture soundtrack for Star Wars: The Force Awakens. With score conducted and composed by five-time Academy Award®-winning composer John Williams and liner notes by the film’s director, J.J. Abrams, the double LP features a 16-page booklet on 180 gram vinyl. This one-of-a-kind vinyl set, hand etched by Tristan Duke (Jack White’s Lazaretto) of Infinity Light Science, offers a 3D hologram experience featuring the Millennium Falcon on Disc 1/Side B and a TIE Fighter on Disc 2/Side B.
The definitive guide to Melbourne’s best record shops: Melbourne is Australia’s hotbed of culture, renowned for its fashion, coffee and cosmopolitan flair…All of this aside, most are unaware of Melbourne, the vinyl mecca – a title it effortlessly takes alongside the best caffè lattes and inner city laneways this side of the equator. The vinyl boom is not a new thing here, with the push for this culture being so significant that a yearly guide has been in production in both physical and online forms for several years now, curated by two stores Wax Museum Records and Northside Records.
Waxwork Records, the leader in beautifully packaged soundtracks on vinyl: These days, there are a number of independent record labels that specialize in putting out vintage soundtracks on vinyl, but one label clearly stands out from the pack, and that is Waxwork Records. The label issues stellar, creative packages, complete with new liner notes, high-quality jackets, and thick pressings on colored vinyl that often reference the movie itself.
