I have a real soft spot for space age design. I love the record players on this list here, although I'm talking about the design and appearance as I've no idea how they sound.
I saw this list and thought it was really cool, but I assumed that I would never see a single one of them in reality....
.... until randomly I saw one mouldering away on the floor of a Lisbon second hand record shop. In fact, it's my favourite one, made by Welltron, this one...
The above are stock images, the one in the shop is in much worse nick, it is dirty looking and says it needs minor repairs before you can play records on it - and they want 600 euros for it.
Now I said I don't care too much about the sound quality but I would like it to turn round and play records so I can hear them without damaging them... plus cos it's so old looking it won't really be a great ornament. Now maybe I could fix it, smarten it up so it does look good, but I can't justify that outlay with all those maybes... but it's so frustratingly close...
As an aside, like I say, i love the space age aesthetic in objects, even some weird and cool women's clothes, but men's clothes in that style seem very thin on the ground indeed, plus those that do exist look pretty half-arsed and lame. An I missing some good stuff? If anyone can suggest some nice space age clothing for men you will blow my mind, and of course, earn my eternal gratitude!
The 15 most incredible Space Age record players
From stereo 'eggs' to spaceship jukeboxes, we’ve collected some of the most visually striking stereo designs from the Space Age.
thevinylfactory.com
I saw this list and thought it was really cool, but I assumed that I would never see a single one of them in reality....
.... until randomly I saw one mouldering away on the floor of a Lisbon second hand record shop. In fact, it's my favourite one, made by Welltron, this one...
The above are stock images, the one in the shop is in much worse nick, it is dirty looking and says it needs minor repairs before you can play records on it - and they want 600 euros for it.
Now I said I don't care too much about the sound quality but I would like it to turn round and play records so I can hear them without damaging them... plus cos it's so old looking it won't really be a great ornament. Now maybe I could fix it, smarten it up so it does look good, but I can't justify that outlay with all those maybes... but it's so frustratingly close...
As an aside, like I say, i love the space age aesthetic in objects, even some weird and cool women's clothes, but men's clothes in that style seem very thin on the ground indeed, plus those that do exist look pretty half-arsed and lame. An I missing some good stuff? If anyone can suggest some nice space age clothing for men you will blow my mind, and of course, earn my eternal gratitude!
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