This Brutalist Vinyl Turntable Hides the Tonearm So Well It Feels Like a Massive CD Deck
For something built to play vinyl, the PP-1 barely behaves like a turntable at all. There’s no tonearm visually staking its claim across the platter,…
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This B&O Headphone Concept Fits Only You, Literally, and It’s the Best Idea Audio Has Had in Years
Bang & Olufsen built its reputation on the idea that audio equipment should be worthy of the spaces it inhabits. Bas Kamp’s ONCE concept takes…
Love Hultén Built a Pink Floyd Prism Guitar You Can Actually Play
The equilateral triangle is one of the most psychologically loaded forms in Western visual culture. It appears on currency, on occult diagrams, on the cover…
Hermès Just Built a DJ Table in Mahogany and Cowhide
If you told me five years ago that Hermès would release a DJ table, I’d have assumed it was a joke told at a fashion…
Linkin Park’s Hybrid Theory Turns 26 and this LEGO Brickset Pays the Perfect Tribute
There is a generation of people for whom Hybrid Theory was the first album that felt like it was speaking directly to them. Released in…
Fosi’s $150 Headphone Amp Snaps to Your iPhone Instead of Dangling
The dongle DAC has become a familiar but awkward sight plugged into the bottom of a smartphone, a small reminder that the headphone jack didn’t…
Tame Impala’s Kevin Parker Co-Designed a Synth So Good It’s Now a Collector’s Item
Transparency in tech has followed the classic arc of any design trend: radical, then referential, then mainstream, then meaningful. Nothing made it radical. Dozens of…
This Ceramic Vase Is Actually a Phone Speaker That Needs No Power
The home has become increasingly cluttered with gadgets that need charging, pairing, and their own dedicated spaces. Even something as simple as playing music from…
Nocturne’s Free App Turns Your Bricked Spotify Car Thing Into Something Better Than the Original
The open-source community has a long history of doing more with abandoned hardware than the original manufacturers ever did. The PSP got emulators Sony never…
This 28mm Turntable Is Fully Automatic and Glows Softly Like Mood Lighting
Vinyl is having a moment that shows no signs of ending. Record sales have been climbing for over a decade, and turntables have found their…
Casio Just Built a $270 Sampler the SK-1 Always Deserved
When Casio showed up at NAMM in January with an unannounced sampler, no press rollout, no teaser campaign, people kind of lost their minds a…
Edifier Melo Bar desk speaker turns any setup into a living canvas of sound and light
Edifier has spent years refining compact audio gear that quietly slips into everyday setups, but the Huazai Melo Bar takes a more expressive turn. The…