@@nooneinpart They kept a record of their visit, and told Mr Mack this is his vinyl warning. After that he will feel the tone arm of the law, and they may even deck him!
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@@tarstarkusz I'm a late Gen-x er or a young boomer, and I wouldn't buy this for myself, my kids, and probably not any of my friends would buy this either.
@@tarstarkusz Maybe. I really don't know the target market for this thing. But the revival in vinyl in general I don't think is from the Boomers, but from a much younger demographic. I could possibly see the younger people buy these things as a novelty for the 45s they find at the thrift store. When I was a kid I bought some 45s because they were cheap and I only wanted that one song, but also purchased LPs too - to listen at home, not because of the audiophile aspect. Cassettes were convenient for the road, but pre-recorded cassettes didn't cost much less than the LPs. I usually made my own cassettes from the LPs or 45s I already owned.
@@tarstarkusz as a part gen z i use a audio technica at lp 120 through my 80s sony hifi that thing is awful i dont know who would buy it or want it in the first place
@ 18:25 As a kid from the late 60s - early 70s, I would have loved that GE unit, The AM radio is a "killer app", Being able to store a few records AND have a radio actually puts it ahead of most portable CD players from two decades hence!
The wow and flutter was just terrible. When listening to those music cuts, it sounded like constant key changes in slow quarter tone fluctuations. I don't miss those days.
Yeah, the flutter is pretty bad. It's due to a combination of a cheap motor and a small, lightweight platter with very little rotational mass to smooth it out.
i have a 7 inch 45 record called 'man on the moon', philips label, says 'this pressing is an historic souvenir exclusively for news of the world readers'
I still have thousands of 45s from the 60s and 70s. That are still in pretty decent condition. This new player sounds interesting. As always great review...😊😊 and I also remember the Soupy Sales Show on Channel 5 in New York City. That show was very funny.
My sister received her Show and Tell Christmas 1964. I remember as a kid thinking it was so cool. A TV and a play along record player that we could watch whenever we wanted. It came with an astronomy record and slide strip, that was my favorite.
I would consider one of these small "high-efficiency" speakers that you can get pretty cheaply and sounds as good as those small portable bluetooth speakers you can easily get nowadays
Sounds like anyone buying this would be better off lighting their BBQ grill with the $29 instead. At least you'd have a burger to enjoy in exchange for that money. These types of cheap electronics are just landfill fillers.
Amen to that!! Just get your kid a used 1/2 decent turntable, a basic phono amp, and basic bookshelf speakers, then teach them how to use it correctly.
@@danny1959 Putting a *little* bit of effort in is "snobbery"? Nowadays it's actually pretty easy to put a whole set together that is actually enjoyable to listen to for under $100. It can be fun to listen to 45s on portables like this when you're a little kid, but it's really just a novelty.
My Vestax died so I bought the 250 as a cheap replacement. As someone who uses a portable to needledrop unknown 45s for a couple seconds when out and about, it serves its purpose and is worth the price.
@@jamesslick4790 Straight from the man himself when he explained the whole thing in 1993, watch, and learn before you shove your foot in your mouth next time. ua-cam.com/video/a-OGy3Kh7yM/v-deo.html
Even for a kid wanting to get into records, I'd pass on giving this thing, and I'd just get them a 1/2 decent used turn table that can play all sizes/speeds, a USB powered amp, and some basic bookshelf speakers.
The target age range for this product is probably around 6 to 10 years old, and I doubt many kids that age would know what all that equipment is or be responsible enough to use it on their own without breaking it.
@@vwestlife that's why you as a responsible parent teach them!! Edit: By the time I was 7 I was responsible enough to use a hi-fi setup on my own, because my parents, grandparents thought me how, I was even doing basic repairs to my computer's, and was given a full soldiering kit by the time I was 10. I watched my parents and grandparents and learned!!
But that was probably back when it was very common for people to have hi-fi component systems. Now most people don't. Like it or not, there is a lot of demand these days for self-contained record players with built-in speakers. We should be glad there are higher-quality ones now available, such as MPK's own TT270.
I will never understand this briefcase design, monstrously ugly and depressing looking. Evokes no positive emotions and is aesthetically drab. Just the thing to be reminded of while listening to your old, nostalgic records; work. Who came up with this?
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Thank you for showing us this wonderful turntables. In Argentina is very hard to get this (taxes) and they are very expensive thanks to our 150% inflation rate so we enjoy how is the real World. Regards from frozen Patagonia.
Not too bad for a toy. Honestly it's probably built better than the cardboard record player I had when I was a little kid lol... except mine had an AM tuner in it, like a newer version of that vintage one you showed. It's cool that they designed it to play those 3" records too. You know what would be cool? if someone made a 45-only record changer, like the new version of the original RCA ones. After all, it would be nice to be able to play a bunch of 45s without having to change them every few minutes, and they are designed specifically to be stacked. Maybe this device can have its own built in amp, and also an option to plug into a receiver.
The "stereo speaker" claim is amusing: a singular speaker being stereo is impossible or nonsensical, right? But if I had to come up with a definition of a stereo speaker, it would be that the one speaker is playing both the left and right channels, so it's kind of correct, from a certain perspective.
6:53 The german Single release of Heavens on Fire from Kiss is also pressed on Styrene. I've never had a Styrene before, they are so uncommon over here...
I haven’t really seen any 7 inch records for sale at all after vinyl became popular, so I wonder for who this is made since collectors won’t come near those things. And Childen aren’t exactly interested in older music.
I'm wondering if they are more popular in other markets around the world. This product would not exist without approval from some bean counter who says there is a market for it.
ThriftyAV : I would love to know who says I want to design, build, market and sell this product. This is the best they could come up with? Pretty pathetic if you ask me.
Notice, at 08:54, the indent at the center hole, which was at the correct thickness to work in changers such as the RCA 9-JY from 1949. I don't know why so many manufacturers refused to follow the original RCA design, which would have made record changers that much more reliable. This is why I can't put a stack of newer 45s on a spindle and expect them all to play. But, in the early 1950s, manufacturers were more careful, even on kids records. I bet that Soupy Sales record was on vinyl, too! BTW, I didn't realize about the ruby styli, because I thought sapphire was about as cheap as they went for cheap styli. Now I know better, because I've come down with a case of 45s lately, and a lot of them are styrene!
I bought the other model of this, blue one with the battery power option. I was not under any illusion that it would sound any good. I have a couple of other turntables for good sound. I bought as it reminded me of the toy record player I had as a child and there is something quite cute about it. I just have it open and on display. If a child comes to visit this is the one I will allow them to play with. Also I was amazed how well packaged it was, as it is essentially just a toy.
I bought it knowing it would be awful . I gutted it .. replaced the horrible rumbling motor with a good one.....removed the awful speaker and amplifier..... box says STEREO but of course it's not.....installed a stereo amplifier that gave significant volume and better sound ...changed it to a 3 speed to accommodate the many children's records I have that require 78 rpm . replaced the platter with one the same size except its metal ... added a stereo / mono switch and there's also a line out .... memory foam on the inside open areas to absorb resonating vibration from the increased loudness....replaced the phono cartridge with a flip stylus for both microgroove and 78 groove records. yes, this was a lot of work but I love it . it's a far cry from something that would normally get purchased and immediately thrown in the garbage
Soupy Sales was a TV personality. He had his own TV show in the 1960’s, and had his only hit with “Doin’ The Mouse”. In 1968, he was a regular panelist on the syndicated version of “What’s My Line?” In 1969, he did a parody of “MacArthur Park” by Richard Harris titled “Muck Arty Park”. He also had his own radio show on WNBC-AM in the 1980’s, and that was it.
I have a copy of the Bingity Bangity Bus book, which gives no suggestion that an audio version ever existed. Interesting. (I know who Soupy Sales was, but postdate his activities to the best of my knowledge.)
does anyone else remember the rhythm guitar being on the right side in Jimi Hendrix foxy lady and it going into a full stereo pan when he went into the solo and foxy being on both the left and right at the same time like an echo??? Because that one is bugging me and bugging me every single time I hear the song.
I got the 3 inchs model that looks like an 80's Technics as a gift for my daughter for her birthday. It was expensive and she didn't like it as it was very bad for playing those small records.
What would you rather buy, this new TT or an old second hand one, as I did for £7!!! Which, get this is not only portable, will play all size of records, and can run on D cell batteries! ua-cam.com/video/dYhEZIETfkE/v-deo.html
D'oh! When I watched this video yesterday I was a bit confused by the title. I was wondering why married people couldn't use this. Now I realize he means music singles, not relationship singles.
The association that does all the Record Store Day releases released a couple of those 3 inch records, and that micro-turntable with the Audio Technica stylus on it
This could make a nice DIY project to upgrade to some reasonable specs. Redesign the PCB with some readily available modules, some filtering, adding some weights to the platter to minimise wow and flutter, a better speaker...
They make pretty cool looking products though. The colors are trippy. I bet in a blind listening through a quality stereo system and modding the player for stereo I could fool some people into thinking it sounded like an expensive turntable.
Not so far, which is surprising because more and more albums are being split up onto two records, so you'd think where would be demand for a turntable which can play multiple records automatically.
This MPK 7” record player can also play Japanese 8ban 3” records from Japan. “Techmoan” made a video about the Bandai 8ban 3” record player on his channel. ua-cam.com/video/zW7XLBrBByA/v-deo.html
I enjoy your videos as they are very informative and also, very fun and very entertaining. I never get tired of watching them. Just an FYI; Polystyrene is injection molded, not pressed like vinylyte, which is the lighter equivalent of vinyl. Plus, on polystyrene injection molded singles, the labels have to be applied onto the record manually. Thanks again for another wonderful video.
So my understanding is that they could have made this player much much better if they put more effort in to designing electronics to make it stereo and filter out motor noise? I hate it when devices have breaking flaws just because they were rushed to production or cost was reduced in places where it didn't really save that much money. Its especially irritating with issues with firmware/software which is one-time cost and device is sold for years and many people suffer because of rushed design which could be easily avoided. On the other hand I love when device is made carefully with all care and attention to how it works, even if technically its outdated.
I can still remember those little portable battery operated record players that were around in the 80's when I was a kid. My cousin had one that actually had little disco lights in the lid. It was really cool and didn't sound too bad but they were better quality players back then. I bought one of those styrene 7" 45's from a local charity shop a few years back, though I can't remember what it was called. It sounded so scratchy it was unlistenable. I guess someone had played it on a very worn or dodgy stylus. Had to throw it away which was a shame. Styrene records are not that common over here in the UK though.
Very informative about the stylus. I have one of these record players and was playing “ Pete’s Dragon” Walt Disney Read-a-long record which unfortunately I found out too late that it was styrene! Yes, it was ruined but I managed to find another record on eBay.
Those Bose companion computer speakers you showed are actually pretty nice for being Bose and how small they are, I found a pair being thrown out and took them home and their impressive for how small they are. The turntable like most MPK things is an absolute toy. I wish I had bought one of the Vestax portable turntables when they were common, those were actually very decent.
Yes 👍, I think that guy 👦 was a little drunk or something. Got tongue 😝 tied with "A Long Time Ago", on "The Bingity Bangity Bus" 🚌 story. At 9:25. I just recently heard 👂 it, despite this video 📹 being on here for a few years. Been LOL 😆 😆 😆, about it for about the last 5 days. Your friend, Jeff.
Yes, the weight on the tonearm here , may not actually cause record damage persay, but it will wear out records due to the weight on them, it will wear records out though
If you don't mind soldering, you can replace the speaker with this one and you will be amazed how much better it sounds. www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01CHYIU26/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1
9:28 Soupy Sales did say "When I tookanago" I Googled it and it means "(grilled eel served over rice)" in Japanese per Trip Advisor. "We took anago-meshi (grilled eel served over rice), is now considered a local specialty. Very good. Date of visit: December 2016."
No, Since the headphone jack outputs mono, it obviously has a mono amplifier. I'm going to assume that the only thing "stereo" about it is that the cartridge is stereo record comparable.
I think you're being a bit unfair I seen a lot worse for more money build it's not too bad. You have to 3D print your own battery compartment I don't think the Motors that bad.. it's not causing the wow and Flutter more likely the pulley and platter and not around you could try skimming in a lathe or drill or loosen the motor a bit quarter of a turn and the bolts, solder a polyurethane capacity 0.47uF across the power terminal on the board that should reduce your hum you won't get any hum if you use batteries. Just stick a rechargeable one in power bank use a 5 volt charger and a Step Up converter, about a dollar might have one built on the board what is the the power adaptor rated for I think it's a guide wheel directly onto the platter pimp your turntable. Just check the guide wheel is round. See if the amplifier ic is bridged or not because it would be stereo ic did they Bridge the IC you could convert it to stereo but lose output maybe or maybe not depends on I C how hard it's driven
Well, yeah, it would have to be. Those Chuo Denshi knockoffs are everywhere for ultra-cheap, why use anything else? No need to develop a mono version; just use the inexpensive, abundant, still-in-production off-the-shelf item, and wire the left and right together for mono. Believe it or not, 'off the shelf' hardware was pretty much how IBM developed the first PC. The engineers tasked with its development regarded the concept of a personal computer to be basically a 'toy', and they weren't going to reinvent the wheel to build it.
This week, I just found some of those 78rpm 7” discs. Never heard of them before. I was confused and surprised. The ones I bought are on the Bell label
FYI, Bell Records, which was founded in 1952, were the very first to use injection molded polystyrene for 7 inch singles. Bestway Products were the company that injection molded the singles for Bell Records, and the injection molding of polystyrene later became the standard for the vast majority of US record labels well into the mid 1990's. Polystyrene was used because it was cheaper to use than vinylyte, and also, it saved time. The only drawback was that the labels had to applied manually to the records.
@@frschoonover1different Bell Records label. The ones that are mentioned above are from between 1945 and 1950. There were many record labels that went by Bell.
Dang, this thing could have been soo good, but alas, it is not. The mono speaker and headphone/speaker output would make something like this a non-starter for me. Plus, that wow and flutter though... WOW! (no pun intended, hehe)
So this thing has a stereo tone arm and stereo amp and stereo headphone jack yet it's mono all the way. I had the Sega Game Gear which had mono from the built-in speaker and stereo if you plug in headphones. I wonder if a mod can be done to the circuits of this player if it could be modded to play mono from the built-in speaker but stereo through the headphones jack.
Hey! That's a THREE SPEED platter motor. A two-speed motor doesn't need that five-pin terminal block. Of course, the 78 speed circuit (which would have its own trimmer pot) isn't there.
:D - was that a speech about "sending a Mayan to the moon by the end of the decade"... oh, wait. I think I must have misheard that. Sorry. (This comment was made in jest, hopefully nobody is offended by it. Thank you).
I goofed. This video's only been on here for 11 months, but how hilarious that is, with the slurred speech sound of "A Long time Ago". I laugh about every time I hear 👂 it. 😆 😆 😆!! Your friend, Jeff.
I'm married. I know the video says "for singles only", but can I still watch?
@@nooneinpart They kept a record of their visit, and told Mr Mack this is his vinyl warning. After that he will feel the tone arm of the law, and they may even deck him!
I assume you're also a Dad?
@@EgoShredder 😛
@@EgoShredder I like your wordplay, good sir.
I was once asked if I had a police record - I replied “Yes - Walking On The Moon!”.
Your wishlist for this product is actionable! Your viewers will now be eagerly awaiting the VWestlife mod of this turntable, with re-wired stereo headphone jack, upgraded speaker, battery pack option, and an upgraded motor!
@@tarstarkusz I'm a late Gen-x er or a young boomer, and I wouldn't buy this for myself, my kids, and probably not any of my friends would buy this either.
@@tarstarkusz Maybe. I really don't know the target market for this thing. But the revival in vinyl in general I don't think is from the Boomers, but from a much younger demographic. I could possibly see the younger people buy these things as a novelty for the 45s they find at the thrift store. When I was a kid I bought some 45s because they were cheap and I only wanted that one song, but also purchased LPs too - to listen at home, not because of the audiophile aspect. Cassettes were convenient for the road, but pre-recorded cassettes didn't cost much less than the LPs. I usually made my own cassettes from the LPs or 45s I already owned.
@@tarstarkusz as a part gen z i use a audio technica at lp 120 through my 80s sony hifi that thing is awful i dont know who would buy it or want it in the first place
'' It sounds bad, but is still a fun toy''. That's what girls said about me in the 90's...
Nice
Finally, some cute singles in my area!
Love your video titles, they always make my day.
" *one stereo speaker* "
To be fair: The outside is well made and looks good. The rest is just a waste of ressources.
Agreed
Honestly, for a cheap toy, it does sound OK.
@ 18:25 As a kid from the late 60s - early 70s, I would have loved that GE unit, The AM radio is a "killer app", Being able to store a few records AND have a radio actually puts it ahead of most portable CD players from two decades hence!
The wow and flutter was just terrible. When listening to those music cuts, it sounded like constant key changes in slow quarter tone fluctuations. I don't miss those days.
I heard it too! It sounded awful!
Yeah, the flutter is pretty bad. It's due to a combination of a cheap motor and a small, lightweight platter with very little rotational mass to smooth it out.
@@vwestlife Maby you can try oiling it, like you showed in another video
Would it be possible to add some extra mass to the platter? Maybe you could glue some weights to the edges.
@@maximilianfischer8899 Oiling the motor didn't help.
The days when VWestlife uploads a new video are the best days
i have a 7 inch 45 record called 'man on the moon', philips label, says 'this pressing is an historic souvenir exclusively for news of the world readers'
I had the same record he played his as a kid
TechMoan has made a video about that record
This would be perfect for the Star Wars read-along books 😁
I still have thousands of 45s from the 60s and 70s. That are still in pretty decent condition. This new player sounds interesting. As always great review...😊😊 and I also remember the Soupy Sales Show on Channel 5 in New York City. That show was very funny.
Sounds like my sister’s Show and Tell 7:09.
I had Show and Tell. I got it Christmas 1965.
My sister received her Show and Tell Christmas 1964. I remember as a kid thinking it was so cool. A TV and a play along record player that we could watch whenever we wanted. It came with an astronomy record and slide strip, that was my favorite.
I would consider one of these small "high-efficiency" speakers that you can get pretty cheaply and sounds as good as those small portable bluetooth speakers you can easily get nowadays
Sounds like anyone buying this would be better off lighting their BBQ grill with the $29 instead. At least you'd have a burger to enjoy in exchange for that money. These types of cheap electronics are just landfill fillers.
Amen to that!! Just get your kid a used 1/2 decent turntable, a basic phono amp, and basic bookshelf speakers, then teach them how to use it correctly.
@@CommodoreFan64 This kind of response not only smells of snobbery, it's delusional snobbery.
@@danny1959 Putting a *little* bit of effort in is "snobbery"? Nowadays it's actually pretty easy to put a whole set together that is actually enjoyable to listen to for under $100. It can be fun to listen to 45s on portables like this when you're a little kid, but it's really just a novelty.
My Vestax died so I bought the 250 as a cheap replacement. As someone who uses a portable to needledrop unknown 45s for a couple seconds when out and about, it serves its purpose and is worth the price.
@@hurkamur1 Can you give me this audiophile-approved, easy to set up,
7:15 I ran it through Shazam and it recognized it as Beyond Discovery by Electro Alien Beat. lol
"Beyond Discovery", hmm.
Maybe they sampled the JFK speech.
@@vwestlife Oh i'm sure, I hear it all the time in club music. Was just surprised it would pick it out.
Soupy Sales ahhh yes. I want you to go tru your parents pockets and send me all that dirty green paper that's in them....🤣🤣🤣🤣
He said at a comedy show in the early 90's he made $80K from it.😆🤑
@@CommodoreFan64 Early 90s?!? VERY EARLY....It happened in 1965! ..and the "take" was only a few bucks...Much of it play money.
@@jamesslick4790 Straight from the man himself when he explained the whole thing in 1993, watch, and learn before you shove your foot in your mouth next time.
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Even for a kid wanting to get into records, I'd pass on giving this thing, and I'd just get them a 1/2 decent used turn table that can play all sizes/speeds, a USB powered amp, and some basic bookshelf speakers.
Yeah, this is a novelty thing,not a "real" record player.
The target age range for this product is probably around 6 to 10 years old, and I doubt many kids that age would know what all that equipment is or be responsible enough to use it on their own without breaking it.
@@vwestlife that's why you as a responsible parent teach them!!
Edit: By the time I was 7 I was responsible enough to use a hi-fi setup on my own, because my parents, grandparents thought me how, I was even doing basic repairs to my computer's, and was given a full soldiering kit by the time I was 10. I watched my parents and grandparents and learned!!
But that was probably back when it was very common for people to have hi-fi component systems. Now most people don't. Like it or not, there is a lot of demand these days for self-contained record players with built-in speakers. We should be glad there are higher-quality ones now available, such as MPK's own TT270.
I will never understand this briefcase design, monstrously ugly and depressing looking. Evokes no positive emotions and is aesthetically drab. Just the thing to be reminded of while listening to your old, nostalgic records; work. Who came up with this?
Thank you for showing us this wonderful turntables. In Argentina is very hard to get this (taxes) and they are very expensive thanks to our 150% inflation rate so we enjoy how is the real World. Regards from frozen Patagonia.
Not too bad for a toy. Honestly it's probably built better than the cardboard record player I had when I was a little kid lol... except mine had an AM tuner in it, like a newer version of that vintage one you showed. It's cool that they designed it to play those 3" records too.
You know what would be cool? if someone made a 45-only record changer, like the new version of the original RCA ones. After all, it would be nice to be able to play a bunch of 45s without having to change them every few minutes, and they are designed specifically to be stacked. Maybe this device can have its own built in amp, and also an option to plug into a receiver.
The "stereo speaker" claim is amusing: a singular speaker being stereo is impossible or nonsensical, right? But if I had to come up with a definition of a stereo speaker, it would be that the one speaker is playing both the left and right channels, so it's kind of correct, from a certain perspective.
6:53 The german Single release of Heavens on Fire from Kiss is also pressed on Styrene. I've never had a Styrene before, they are so uncommon over here...
Styrene? In Germany?? I doubt that! Every 45 I have from Germany is on vinyl.
I haven’t really seen any 7 inch records for sale at all after vinyl became popular, so I wonder for who this is made since collectors won’t come near those things. And Childen aren’t exactly interested in older music.
I'm wondering if they are more popular in other markets around the world. This product would not exist without approval from some bean counter who says there is a market for it.
ThriftyAV : I would love to know who says I want to design, build, market and sell this product. This is the best they could come up with? Pretty pathetic if you ask me.
7" format is still immensely popular with punk and other indie genres.
Vinyl wrapped vinyl player 👍
The noticable speed variations when you were playing back music was the most objectionable to me. It does need a better motor.
Notice, at 08:54, the indent at the center hole, which was at the correct thickness to work in changers such as the RCA 9-JY from 1949. I don't know why so many manufacturers refused to follow the original RCA design, which would have made record changers that much more reliable. This is why I can't put a stack of newer 45s on a spindle and expect them all to play. But, in the early 1950s, manufacturers were more careful, even on kids records. I bet that Soupy Sales record was on vinyl, too! BTW, I didn't realize about the ruby styli, because I thought sapphire was about as cheap as they went for cheap styli. Now I know better, because I've come down with a case of 45s lately, and a lot of them are styrene!
12:36 The Middle Ages called, they want their song back.
had the book and was banned by our parental units from watching soupy sales . gah , am revealing my age .
I bought the other model of this, blue one with the battery power option. I was not under any illusion that it would sound any good. I have a couple of other turntables for good sound. I bought as it reminded me of the toy record player I had as a child and there is something quite cute about it. I just have it open and on display. If a child comes to visit this is the one I will allow them to play with. Also I was amazed how well packaged it was, as it is essentially just a toy.
I bought it knowing it would be awful . I gutted it .. replaced the horrible rumbling motor with a good one.....removed the awful speaker and amplifier..... box says STEREO but of course it's not.....installed a stereo amplifier that gave significant volume and better sound ...changed it to a 3 speed to accommodate the many children's records I have that require 78 rpm . replaced the platter with one the same size except its metal ... added a stereo / mono switch and there's also a line out .... memory foam on the inside open areas to absorb resonating vibration from the increased loudness....replaced the phono cartridge with a flip stylus for both microgroove and 78 groove records.
yes, this was a lot of work but I love it . it's a far cry from something that would normally get purchased and immediately thrown in the garbage
The older one is obviously better
Yeah, I know who Soupy Sales is. I really like your case for the 45's. It's really 1950's style--just the thing for sleep-overs!
Soupy Sales was a TV personality. He had his own TV show in the 1960’s, and had his only hit with “Doin’ The Mouse”. In 1968, he was a regular panelist on the syndicated version of “What’s My Line?” In 1969, he did a parody of “MacArthur Park” by Richard Harris titled “Muck Arty Park”. He also had his own radio show on WNBC-AM in the 1980’s, and that was it.
I have a copy of the Bingity Bangity Bus book, which gives no suggestion that an audio version ever existed. Interesting. (I know who Soupy Sales was, but postdate his activities to the best of my knowledge.)
The best thing here is the box of plug adapters.
its stereo sound coming out of one speaker. what a great invention!
"Japanese" ceramic cartridge.
made in China...
The genuine japanese chuo denzi ceramic cartride would almost cost more than that record player.
I think they can get away with that since it's a Japanese design.
does anyone else remember the rhythm guitar being on the right side in Jimi Hendrix foxy lady and it going into a full stereo pan when he went into the solo and foxy being on both the left and right at the same time like an echo??? Because that one is bugging me and bugging me every single time I hear the song.
Thanks for the shout out!
I got the 3 inchs model that looks like an 80's Technics as a gift for my daughter for her birthday. It was expensive and she didn't like it as it was very bad for playing those small records.
MPK makes good products. I have a similar 7 inch player. I have a video of it on my channel if anyone is interested
What would you rather buy, this new TT or an old second hand one, as I did for £7!!! Which, get this is not only portable, will play all size of records, and can run on D cell batteries! ua-cam.com/video/dYhEZIETfkE/v-deo.html
That's cool!
@@vwestlife Have you not seen one of these before, were they not sold in America?
This thing sounds horrible! I'm so glad that you made me buy a Sony PS-LX300 😅
Ha I'm glad that Sony is as popular as it is. It's truly a perfect budget deck for beginners. I love mine, and I've got better decks now!
I have this! Cute as a pin!! Sound is ok if you remember tiny record players of the 1960s!!
I really enjoy these weird little turntables, and I'm really happy to watch your videos on them. I'd be tempted to get some of these otherwise.
I remember Soupy Sales.
MPK seems to be obsessed with 7" records
I hope for a 45 revival like their is a vinyl album revival right now
D'oh! When I watched this video yesterday I was a bit confused by the title. I was wondering why married people couldn't use this. Now I realize he means music singles, not relationship singles.
The association that does all the Record Store Day releases released a couple of those 3 inch records, and that micro-turntable with the Audio Technica stylus on it
This could make a nice DIY project to upgrade to some reasonable specs. Redesign the PCB with some readily available modules, some filtering, adding some weights to the platter to minimise wow and flutter, a better speaker...
I added a better 3" parts express speaker and got much better audio. Also to make the midrange better you can get a $5 preamp to match the impedance.
Do you have a source for that pre-amp?
www.ebay.com/itm/DC-5V-15V-12V-AD828-Stereo-Preamp-Power-Amplifier-Board-Preamplifier-Module/132837996861?hash=item1eedc2f93d:g:kbQAAOSwmBhb2AnP
I used that in the crosley 3" mini cruiser and it made a good improvement
Make a video about it, brother!
Basically, MPK's 7" record player offerings aren't that good.
Bear in mind it's a novelty unit. His description says it all.. 'TOY'.
Great item to get youngsters into the world of vinyl at a very low price!
Thank you for another great video. An excellent review of the record player. Love the channel and can't wait to see what video you will have next.
But actually didn't 😂 fake stuff
They make pretty cool looking products though. The colors are trippy. I bet in a blind listening through a quality stereo system and modding the player for stereo I could fool some people into thinking it sounded like an expensive turntable.
Great video as always buddy!!! I love your record player reviews!! Any word on anyone making a new record changer for 2020?
Not so far, which is surprising because more and more albums are being split up onto two records, so you'd think where would be demand for a turntable which can play multiple records automatically.
Battery brick and it’s portable
This MPK 7” record player can also play Japanese 8ban 3” records from Japan. “Techmoan” made a video about the Bandai 8ban 3” record player on his channel.
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I enjoy your videos as they are very informative and also, very fun and very entertaining. I never get tired of watching them.
Just an FYI; Polystyrene is injection molded, not pressed like vinylyte, which is the lighter equivalent of vinyl. Plus, on polystyrene injection molded singles, the labels have to be applied onto the record manually.
Thanks again for another wonderful video.
It’s like a little baby Crosley Cruiser
So my understanding is that they could have made this player much much better if they put more effort in to designing electronics to make it stereo and filter out motor noise? I hate it when devices have breaking flaws just because they were rushed to production or cost was reduced in places where it didn't really save that much money. Its especially irritating with issues with firmware/software which is one-time cost and device is sold for years and many people suffer because of rushed design which could be easily avoided. On the other hand I love when device is made carefully with all care and attention to how it works, even if technically its outdated.
as that runs off 5v, you could fit 4 AA nimhs with simple charge circuit(resistor or small bulb 😉)
update , i commented before i saw you dismantle it, its all ready to have it fitted😁
A great toy to give the kids so they don't try playing with the real hifi.
I can still remember those little portable battery operated record players that were around in the 80's when I was a kid. My cousin had one that actually had little disco lights in the lid. It was really cool and didn't sound too bad but they were better quality players back then. I bought one of those styrene 7" 45's from a local charity shop a few years back, though I can't remember what it was called. It sounded so scratchy it was unlistenable. I guess someone had played it on a very worn or dodgy stylus. Had to throw it away which was a shame. Styrene records are not that common over here in the UK though.
You might as well use the bigger brother suitcase by MPK since it can play small records too.
That speech is on the track APOLLO XI by OMD on the album Sugar Tax.
Very informative about the stylus. I have one of these record players and was playing “ Pete’s Dragon” Walt Disney Read-a-long record which unfortunately I found out too late that it was styrene! Yes, it was ruined but I managed to find another record on eBay.
Those Bose companion computer speakers you showed are actually pretty nice for being Bose and how small they are, I found a pair being thrown out and took them home and their impressive for how small they are. The turntable like most MPK things is an absolute toy. I wish I had bought one of the Vestax portable turntables when they were common, those were actually very decent.
Yes 👍, I think that guy 👦 was a little drunk or something. Got tongue 😝 tied with "A Long Time Ago", on "The Bingity Bangity Bus" 🚌 story. At 9:25. I just recently heard 👂 it, despite this video 📹 being on here for a few years. Been LOL 😆 😆 😆, about it for about the last 5 days. Your friend, Jeff.
I'm diggin' those 45s!
Yes, the weight on the tonearm here , may not actually cause record damage persay, but it will wear out records due to the weight on them, it will wear records out though
I was more interested in Mary mc Teague’s record player...let’s see a review of that one
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If you don't mind soldering, you can replace the speaker with this one and you will be amazed how much better it sounds. www.amazon.com/gp/product/B01CHYIU26/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_search_asin_title?ie=UTF8&psc=1
records in the early 70s were in stereo. there were mono pressings for radio. every early 70s record i have is in stereo.
The cost, and for what it is, being for children, I think it is actually good, not taking into consideration the tonearm weight , but it is good.
9:28 Soupy Sales did say "When I tookanago" I Googled it and it means "(grilled eel served over rice)" in Japanese per Trip Advisor. "We took anago-meshi (grilled eel served over rice), is now considered a local specialty. Very good. Date of visit: December 2016."
GARBAGE
omg i had that bingity bangity school bus record and book!
Where can we buy this record player 🤔 👀 ?
It should be available on Amazon.
If you removed the mono speaker and put in two small stereo speakers will it be stereo?
No, Since the headphone jack outputs mono, it obviously has a mono amplifier. I'm going to assume that the only thing "stereo" about it is that the cartridge is stereo record comparable.
unfortunately it doesn't play 16rmp records
Most of them wouldn't fit on it anyway.
You have been watching to much record ology
If I did, I would've done this review in the kitchen and played Glenn Miller on it.
@@vwestlife haha true
Ooh I want it it's so cute! I doubt it will work nearly as well as ones from the 60s tho.
I think you're being a bit unfair I seen a lot worse for more money build it's not too bad.
You have to 3D print your own battery compartment I don't think the Motors that bad.. it's not causing the wow and Flutter more likely the pulley and platter and not around you could try skimming in a lathe or drill or loosen the motor a bit quarter of a turn and the bolts, solder a polyurethane capacity 0.47uF across the power terminal on the board that should reduce your hum you won't get any hum if you use batteries. Just stick a rechargeable one in power bank use a 5 volt charger and a Step Up converter, about a dollar might have one built on the board what is the the power adaptor rated for
I think it's a guide wheel directly onto the platter pimp your turntable. Just check the guide wheel is round. See if the amplifier ic is bridged or not because it would be stereo ic did they Bridge the IC you could convert it to stereo but lose output maybe or maybe not depends on I C how hard it's driven
"...seems she don't go for nothin'
'cept for my big 7 inch
record of a band that plays the blues"
I guess reality caught up with her and with inflation, because I always thought that it was a big 10 inch... record.
Hey there! Did you verify the claim that it had a genuine belt drive? Just curious.
It is belt drive.
I'm going to be charitable and assume that it's designed to play stereo records. (stereo cartridge), even though the output is mono.
Yes, as I showed in the video, it has separate left and right wires going from the cartridge to the amplifier.
Well, yeah, it would have to be. Those Chuo Denshi knockoffs are everywhere for ultra-cheap, why use anything else? No need to develop a mono version; just use the inexpensive, abundant, still-in-production off-the-shelf item, and wire the left and right together for mono.
Believe it or not, 'off the shelf' hardware was pretty much how IBM developed the first PC. The engineers tasked with its development regarded the concept of a personal computer to be basically a 'toy', and they weren't going to reinvent the wheel to build it.
This week, I just found some of those 78rpm 7” discs. Never heard of them before. I was confused and surprised. The ones I bought are on the Bell label
FYI, Bell Records, which was founded in 1952, were the very first to use injection molded polystyrene for 7 inch singles. Bestway Products were the company that injection molded the singles for Bell Records, and the injection molding of polystyrene later became the standard for the vast majority of US record labels well into the mid 1990's. Polystyrene was used because it was cheaper to use than vinylyte, and also, it saved time. The only drawback was that the labels had to applied manually to the records.
@@frschoonover1different Bell Records label. The ones that are mentioned above are from between 1945 and 1950. There were many record labels that went by Bell.
Sounds bad i would pay for thing like that
Dang, this thing could have been soo good, but alas, it is not. The mono speaker and headphone/speaker output would make something like this a non-starter for me. Plus, that wow and flutter though... WOW! (no pun intended, hehe)
yeah,,,vull stereo surround ;-) :-)
I hear flutter in the audio.
So this thing has a stereo tone arm and stereo amp and stereo headphone jack yet it's mono all the way. I had the Sega Game Gear which had mono from the built-in speaker and stereo if you plug in headphones. I wonder if a mod can be done to the circuits of this player if it could be modded to play mono from the built-in speaker but stereo through the headphones jack.
Classy fisher price job
Hey! That's a THREE SPEED platter motor. A two-speed motor doesn't need that five-pin terminal block. Of course, the 78 speed circuit (which would have its own trimmer pot) isn't there.
:D - was that a speech about "sending a Mayan to the moon by the end of the decade"... oh, wait. I think I must have misheard that. Sorry. (This comment was made in jest, hopefully nobody is offended by it. Thank you).
I goofed. This video's only been on here for 11 months, but how hilarious that is, with the slurred speech sound of "A Long time Ago". I laugh about every time I hear 👂 it. 😆 😆 😆!! Your friend, Jeff.
Do not play audiophile 7 inch records.
Does such a thing exist?
@@vwestlife or precious 7 inch records like with 12 inch records which many cherish their favorite ones not to be played many times.