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Posts tagged “vinyl”

A Record Lover's Storage Solution: The Atocha Record Cabinet

Despite the name, the Record Cabinet by Atocha isn't just for vinyl junkies. With several configurations offering storage for audio components, DVDs and CDs in various sizes and materials, the taste...

Etsy Vinyl Shop Features Tons of Laptop Decals

We've already told you about the virtues of vinyl laptop customization (We've even featured the Snow White decal seen above!). But here's a source to get you started on finding the decal that's right ...

If DIY-Laptop Customization Scares You Try Vinylville

School is starting and that new laptop that you got needs to be customized, otherwise it will just look like everyone else's. Apart from looking good, if it's tastefully done, you'll recognize your la...

Displaying Book, Movie & Music Collections

Janel over at Apartment Therapy Chicago takes a look at how to display that collection of media in the home with a great roundup of well presented collections. We've rid ourselves of most media excep...

Seagate Skins Let You Pimp Your External Hard Drive

Alright, now they've gone and done it. Right when we thought that skinning up your laptop trend was all over and done with, MusicSkin unleashes an army of 161 Seagate FreeAgent Go-fitted external hard...

High Quality & Low Cost DIY Record Cleaner

After living in our recent loft space, our records seem to be dustier than ever and we've been on the lookout for a way to give them back their original shine without high overhead costs. We needed ...

How to... Color Dye Plastic Computer Parts

When we asked if you have a go-to color when you're picking out gadgets, we found that most liked their gadgets to remain neutral, but modern. Black-, white- and silver-colored stuff took the stage. B...

Inspiration: Sugar Crates for Toy & Media Storage

Old sugar crates picked up from the flea market receive the caster treatment, turning them into a perfect storage solution for toys, books, DVDs, remote controllers, and more. Heck, they might even wo...

Final Frame: The Temporary Soundmuseum Turntables Collection

The Temporary Soundmuseum Turntables Collection via Diskursdisko....

Inspiration: Gemma's IKEA Shelves For Record Storage

After drooling over Gemma Ahern's breathtaking sneak peek over at Design Sponge Online, we couldn't help but fall in love again with an idea we've seen time and time again - pairing IKEA LACK shelves ...

How to Make a 45rpm Vinyl Record

This isn't really an instructional "How To" as much as it's an informational one. We use all this tech stuff around us without ever really thinking about where it comes from. Watch this video from BBC...

Nilox Vintage: Turn Vinyl Into MP3s

Have you ever wanted to encode that old record collection your father has lying around? Maybe you've found some gems in the attic and wanted to sample them. It's not easy to listen to records nowadays...

SUCK UK's Pre-Grunged CD & Vinyl Dividers

LPs are on their way back and seeing increasing sales over the past few years, thanks in no small part to big artists releasing content exclusively on vinyl. If you're starting a collection, or you're...

iPod Touch Accelerometer Turntable App

Spinning vinyl ipod app from Theodore Watson on Vimeo. Turntablists and iPhone lovers alike will appreciate this smarty-pants iPhone app created by Theodore Watson which uses the iPhone/iPod Touch's a...

Denon: New Turntable Doubles As Digital Vinyl Toolbox

If you're like us, you've probably got a few friends that collect old vinyls and who absolutely refuse to go digital, with claims of huge quality degradation with "new" compressed music files being wi...

Audiowood Turntables Keep the Sound and Look Organic

click for more picsWe totally realize that these turntables fashioned out of various woods (mostly burl, with some oak, walnut and even plywood) is going to appeal to 99% of the A/V crowd out there, b...

Hot or Not? Skinning Your Electronics

Like body tattoos dating back to Eurasian practices around the 5th millennium BC, people will always have the human urge to express themselves in such a mass consumer culture. Luckily, since gadgets t...

Zero.1 Plays Everything You've Got
You Don't Have a Cassette Tape Collection, do You?

Audio-obsessed music collectors and DJs will usually tell you that they prefer to chill out to the sounds of a vinyl record spinning on a turntable. But housing a record player and a collection of lar...

ION LP 2 FLASH Turntable Rips Vinyl Straight to USB Drive

We've never met a person with a vinyl record collection that didn't absolutely treasure it. For those people, it's tough to abandon their trusty library of records and switch to digital music. We've f...

How to: Two Ways to Convert Your Vinyl Collection to Digital Formats

We were perusing Fred Flare after we got an email announcement that those awesome 500XL GIANT earbud speakers are now available online, when we also noted that they've reduced their Vinyl Archiver, wh...