Pink Floyd has never gotten a LEGO set. This fan built the one everyone’s been waiting for
Fifty one years. That’s how long Wish You Were Here has been sitting in the canon, selling something like 20 million copies, topping the charts…
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Teenage Engineering meets iPod Shuffle: This music player puts the screen where your eyes actually are
Sony killed the MiniDisc in 2006 with the MZ-RH1, a recorder so good that people still pay silly money for working ones on eBay. It…
Apple’s Hidden Concert Hall Fits Only 600 Fans in London
Watching live concerts is one of the greatest joys of my life. There’s something really special about seeing artists you love perform their hearts out…
The Record Player That Skips the Vinyl and Plays Falling Water
A vintage turntable earns its warmth from ritual, the small act of placing a needle and watching a disc spin. The Retro Water Drop Ambient…
iPod Classic emulator for the Samsung Galaxy Z Fold8 finally gets the size and aspect ratio right
Apple has the opportunity to do something really cool here! An emulator going by the name of Classipod has been doing the rounds on the…
Finally someone made a ‘Rock Guitar’ out of actual rock… And it honestly sounds good!
Almost every guitar ever made, acoustic or electric, comes from wood, which means the genre names have been lying to us the whole time. Rock…
Finally, a CD Player Gen Z Actually Wants to Own
It really warms my heart when I see Gen Z and Gen Alpha kids collecting physical media from their favorite artists. These are people who…
RHYTHM Is the Walkman the Smartphone Era Forgot to Build
Smartphones turned music into just another notification competing for attention, a song interrupted by a text, an album broken up by a calendar alert. RHYTHM…
5 Designs That Prove Vinyl’s Comeback Was Never Just About the Music
Vinyl has returned to the cultural spotlight, but its comeback is about much more than nostalgia. A new generation is discovering records as objects of…
This LEGO Fan Rebuilt Linkin Park’s Meteora Cover In Bricks, Then Added the Whole Band Below Too
Quick pop quiz for anyone who owns Meteora on CD, RIP CD collections. Who’s the guy on the cover, crouched down in a respirator with…
The Click Wheel Is Back, and This Pocket Player Has 4 DACs
The Shanling Q2 is a pocket-sized hi-fi player that fits four Cirrus Logic CS43131 DAC chips into a body smaller than most wallets. It measures…
Esoteric T-01 turntable uses magnetic drive to eliminate mechanical contact
Esoteric has just dropped the T-01, an ultra-high-end turntable that takes an unusual approach to one of vinyl playback’s fundamental challenges: keeping the platter isolated…
The Cassette Revival Has Had a Player Problem, and FiiO Just Fixed It
Vinyl already had its big cultural moment, dragging turntables and record stores back into the mainstream. Cassette tapes, quietly and without much fanfare, have been…
Someone Built Lana Del Rey’s Ultraviolence Album Art as a Monochrome LEGO Diorama
There was a solid decade there where every other Tumblr blog, VSCO caption, and breakup playlist owed a spiritual debt to one blank faced woman…
Someone Built a $3,500 Studio That Starts With You, Not the Gear
The studio setup has always been a deeply personal thing. Two producers with identical gear can arrange it in completely different ways, because the physical…
Pro-Ject Just Solved the Two Biggest Problems With Getting Into Vinyl
The entry-level turntable market has a pattern that rarely changes. A manufacturer adds Bluetooth, a built-in preamp, USB output, and auto-stop into one device, prices…