- Back in 2020, designer Yuri Suzuki teamed up with Japan’s Gakken to launch a dinky little box that allowed young music-makers to cut a vinyl disc in a matter of minutes and play it back through the same device.
- An audio device like a smartphone or MP3 player is cabled into a 3.5-mm audio jack and the cutting arm on the left is lowered onto a spinning 5-inch blank disc to create the funky grooves in “ultra lo-fi sound.”
- The PO-80 kit is priced at US$149 and comes with a spare cutting needle, six blank vinyl discs, a USB power cable and other bits and pieces.
Teenage Engineering gets in a lo-fi groove with the PO-80 Record Factory
