The last time I could remember that you could buy something with a turntable in your favorite IKEA store it was 1971. The 'Hifi' line was sold under it's own brand 'Renn', it had the same chunky styling as this device. The turntable was made by BSR (I think), little hope it will be British this time? The line was very short lived, BTW.
IKEA announce a new turntable (!)
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Arkless Electronics
Trade: Amp design and repairs.
I rather fail to see the point of a TT of such poor quality that MP3 from any smart phone will utterly trash it on SQ grounds.... and that the medium is the message! Ooh listen to the authenticity of those pops and crackles, the rumble, and the HF distortion! No I'm not the intended customer base...
Rosewind
Lost in Translation
Yes, here it is, the "Renn Professional turntable"
More about the development here: https://about.ikea.com/en/behind-sc...er-by-ikea-and-swedish-house-mafia-came-to-be
Yank
Bulbous Also Tapered
I bet the IKEA colour options are better than the latest limited expensive Technics
Whatever the color choices are, the one you want will never be in stock.
Mr Pig , good point well made LOL
Bob McC
Living the life of Riley
Commenting from a position of utter ignorance of the product
Del monaco
Del Monaco
I suspect that it may sound ok. They have a nice Sonos range of speakers so if it’s on par with those it should be at least listenable. Rather than judge it now let’s just wait and see.
Why? Has it been designed by an audio engineer who has put performance before appearance? Is it not made almost entirely out of plastic as it appears? Is it not cheaply made, as it appears?
Why would it sound good and why is it of any interest to anyone who values musical reproduction quality? Other than it being another sad piece of evil sounding crap which will only serve to put young vinyl newbies off the format.
Del monaco
Del Monaco
Did I say ‘sound good’? Did I expect it to sound like a Rega or LP12? Silly response Mr Pig.
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Andy Stephenson
pfm Member
I suspect it'll be made to a price point to appeal to that section of the population that thinks it's now trendy to have a turntable.
Half of them will probably never be used for anything else other than just being an ornament. I see plenty of TTs now in adverts and
TV programmes. It's the thing to have for the in-crowd!
Andy
MVV
pfm Member
Because this hobby is so imbued with snobbery, myth and magic, it would be really nice to see the Ikea democratic design principles of 'affordable, accessible, sustainable solutions for all', applied to a turntable.
I doesn't look like that has happened though because it looks too conventional. I would have thought simplifying Firebaugh's design ideas would have been a better start point and that big box doesn't seem to make sense. But then they are not stupid so I will wait and see.
Tony L
Administrator
As long as it is good enough not to damage their likely very expensive vinyl that’s a win IMO. It makes me cringe that people are playing good vinyl on Crosleys etc, especially given a new LP is typically £20-30 these days. The AT cart is fine, that should do no harm as long as the rest works.
Everyone needs to start somewhere. My first record player was a huge old 1950s mono valve radiogram given to me when my grandparents upgraded to a music centre in the mid-70s. It had one of the cream Garrard autochangers with a flip-over ceramic stylus that likely tracked at about 8g and the VTF was set with a spring. Not the best thing for vinyl but I still have a couple of records from that period that look and play fine.
So my benchmark is will the Ikea be kinder to vinyl than this? My guess is it will, though I bet it won’t sound as good as that ancient Bush with its valve amp and chunky Celestion speakers!
Everyone needs to start somewhere. My first record player was a huge old 1950s mono valve radiogram given to me when my grandparents upgraded to a music centre in the mid-70s. It had one of the cream Garrard autochangers with a flip-over ceramic stylus that likely tracked at about 8g and the VTF was set with a spring. Not the best thing for vinyl but I still have a couple of records from that period that look and play fine.
So my benchmark is will the Ikea be kinder to vinyl than this? My guess is it will, though I bet it won’t sound as good as that ancient Bush with its valve amp and chunky Celestion speakers!
flatpopely
Prog Rock/Moderator
Has anyone actually heard this yet?
Of course not, not available until later this year…