Episode One – 9.2.16

This playlist is 81% vinyl friendly. Not bad. ‘Winner of Best Domestic Design at the Wallpaper* Design Awards 2023, this Brian Eno turntable has a stunning LED light feature that changes according to your music. Created in collaboration with the Paul Stolper gallery, the psychedelic turntable sold out back in 2021 but hasn't become any […] The post Episode 139 – Original Upload 4.5.25 appeared first on 41Rooms.

This playlist is 82% vinyl friendly. Impressive. The Gearbox MKII Transparent Turntable, made in Europe by Pro-ject to North London's Gearbox Records' specifications and retailing around £549. Plays at both 33 rpm and 45 rpm and in being equipped with Bluetooth it can also play through desktop speakers. Just a thought… the transparent body showcasing […] The post Episode 138 – Original Upload 4.6.25 appeared first on 41Rooms.

This playlist is 93% vinyl friendly. Near perfect. New in 2025, the Korg Handytraxx is a funky looking lad. A portable belt drive motor turntable ‘aimed at both DJs and vinyl enthusiasts' that can run either via AC power or AA batteries and features a 2.5w built-in speaker. From £359 through to £1099, depending on […] The post Episode 137 – Original Upload 2.3.25 appeared first on 41Rooms.

This playlist is 73% vinyl friendly. Not bad. A teal/turquoise background will always catch my eye but the Audio-Technica AT-LP60XBT Fully Automatic Wireless Belt-Drive Turntable, at just $219 or thereabouts, is highly regarded. Any track marked * has been given either a tiny or a slightly larger 41 Rooms tweak/edit/chop and the occasional tune might […] The post Episode 136 – Original Upload 2.2.25 appeared first on 41Rooms.

Counting an acetate as vinyl (of sorts), this playlist is 97% vinyl friendly. Soooo close! Oi! Shelves is for vinyl, numptie! I can see right through it! It's a Turntable Transrotor Leonardo Doppio 25 25 40 Rega and it's yours for €3500 or Best Offer right now on eBay. Any track marked * has been […] The post Episode 135 – Original Upload 5.1.25 appeared first on 41Rooms.

This playlist is 81% vinyl friendly. Not bad. From circa 1926 – the Western Electric 2A turntable. Just a 33-1/3 RPM speed, as there was no such thing as a 45rpm record at the time. Cast iron parts, ordinary copper wire, common ball bearings, and a 1 horsepower electric motor meant that the angular error […] The post Episode 134 – Original Upload 1.12.24 appeared first on 41Rooms.

This playlist is 79% vinyl friendly. Not bad. With that brass look reminding me of something you'd get in a hardware shop this chunky but small turntable from 1998 is still in production, and at 13kg weight Kuzma's Stabi S is sturdy. ‘A uniquely designed turntable, (it) is a minimalist, beautifully engineered piece of kit. Its […] The post Episode 133 – Original Upload 3.11.24 appeared first on 41Rooms.

This playlist is 85% vinyl friendly. Impressive. The BRAUN PC3 SV may have been a brick of a 1950s turntable but it's yours from Holland for just on €500 plus postage and the extra charges that seem applicable on buying just about anything, old or new, from anywhere these days.

This playlist is 87% vinyl friendly. Impressive. Via The New York Times at the beginning of 2024, this Fluance RT85N turntable was voted the best under $600, so in this day and age that's spinning economy-style. Modern… in a non flashy kind of way… apart from turntable's finish, of course. Any track marked * has been […] The post Episode 131 – Original Upload 1.9.24 appeared first on 41Rooms.

This playlist is 97% vinyl friendly. Soooo close!  One of two turntable plus mixer that made up artist Fabien Clerc's unique (as in totally one-off) ‘Back in the Good Old Days' creation and if your great great grandmother had been into DJ'ing she might have taken a shine to the set up. Fully functional and […] The post Episode 130 – Original Upload 4.8.24 appeared first on 41Rooms.

This playlist is 79% vinyl friendly. Not bad.  From 1959, if you fancied a carpet look on your portable suitcase turntable casing and platter(!), the Philips AG9148 mono gramophone was for you, maybe. Any track marked * has been given either a tiny or a slightly larger 41 Rooms tweak/edit/chop and the occasional tune might […] The post Episode 129 – Original Upload 7.7.24 appeared first on 41Rooms.

This playlist is 86% vinyl friendly. Impressive.  A Columbia GP-3B Portable Record Player, out of Japan. Teal! Relatively available second hand at £150-£200 but not as old as they appear, coming from the '90s… and very weedy sounding, judging by a play through on Youtube. Possibly aimed at cratedigging DJs, I saw a few with […] The post Episode 128 – Original Upload 2.6.24 appeared first on 41Rooms.

This playlist is 87% vinyl friendly. Impressive.  B&O Beocenter 7700… If I remember rightly, back in the '70s when me and my mates were getting beyond the Dansettes of our parents' time, Bang and Olufsen was a bit too expensive. That didn't matter much with me. I just didn't like the sleek, minimalist look. My […] The post Episode 127 – Original Upload 5.5.24 appeared first on 41Rooms.

This playlist is 78% vinyl friendly. Not bad.  An early 1970s BSR P195, courtesy of Birmingham (UK) Sound Reproducers – with an eye maybe on reel to reel tape machines they would then make a decade later?

This playlist is 79% vinyl friendly. Not bad.  From 2022, with this being the Pro-ject Metallica Limited Edition turntable – though I have the band, Kiss in my head for some reason – it's the only time you'll see either group mentioned on 41 Rooms. This set up came in at around $1600 and I […] The post Episode 125 – Original Upload 3.3.24 appeared first on 41Rooms.

This playlist is 79% vinyl friendly. Not bad.  As you can see, the Electric Banana Stereo Phono had some bold claims made on it back in the '70s. Originally costing $40, these days you might have to pay nearer $900 if you're daft enough to want one, with the above version residing in the International […] The post Episode 124 – Original Upload 4.2.24 appeared first on 41Rooms.

This playlist is 79% vinyl friendly. Not bad.  What sort of witchcraft is the Mag-Lev ML1? With no moving parts inside, no belt and no motor, its magnets that keep the platter hovering in place and rotating. Balancing on its feet when not in use, once the tonearm is moved into position, the feet retract, leaving […] The post Episode 123 – Original Upload 7.1.24 appeared first on 41Rooms.

This playlist is 81% vinyl friendly. Not bad.  The idea of Istanbul, Turkey based industrial designer, Pelin Özbalcı, the ‘Ripple' turntable surfaced at the end of 2021 and continued what he's sees as a line of ‘joyful products, experiences, and product-user interactions… ‘ If it had been a 1960s design it wouldn't have looked out […] The post Episode 122 – Original Upload 3.12.23 appeared first on 41Rooms.

This playlist is 79% vinyl friendly. Not bad.  From the 1990s and certainly in one sense, solid as a rock! Dual's Golden Stone turntable was as chiselled as any turntable is likely to be and if you wanted your music centre to blend in with your driveway or patio it was a contender. Checking in […] The post Episode 121 – Original Upload 5.11.23 appeared first on 41Rooms.

This playlist is 82% vinyl friendly. Impressive.  Early Technics decks custom coloured, courtesy of digifunktechnics.co.uk. Wasn't there a colour of Spangle a few decades back that nearly matched the above? Pimping up and beyond also available… and no, I'm not an affiliate for them.

This playlist is 87% vinyl friendly. Impressive.  ‘The Voice of Music', Model 270-0 looking like Second World War in car entertainment the US Army never had. Would have been a tad bumpy. Currently a $185 eBay Buy It Now, out of Florida, USA but ‘missing needle or wire that allows music to play‘. Any track […] The post Episode 119 – Original Upload 3.9.23 appeared first on 41Rooms.

This playlist is 72% vinyl friendly. Not bad… which once again translates to ‘equal worst ever'.  Auditorium's €3500 Auftakt turntable – begging for an ice sculptor to hack away at it. Any track marked * has been given either a tiny or a slightly larger 41 Rooms ‘tweak'/edit/chop and the occasional tune might sound a […] The post Episode 118 – Original Upload 6.8.23 appeared first on 41Rooms.

This playlist is 91% vinyl friendly. Near perfect. Even I as a non musician would recognise something here. Built in 2021 to catch the eye and $3,500 of one thousand Fender Precision Bass… errr, bass players – with its ash wood, 3-color sunburst finish and treatments transformed into The Fender x MoFi PrecisionDeck turntable. Step […] The post Episode 117 – Original Upload 2.7.23 appeared first on 41Rooms.

This playlist is 87% vinyl friendly. Impressive. As a joke used to go a few decades back – ‘I had one of those… but the wheels fell off‘. RD Silva saw his Turnstyle turntable as being “As simple as it gets: The motor that spins the record. The needle that reads the record. The speakers […] The post Episode 116 – Original Upload 4.6.23 appeared first on 41Rooms.

This playlist is 80% vinyl friendly. Not bad. The portable turntable collection of one ‘strobemusic', on Reddit a few years back. In the collective make up of some of these are the component parts to one I think I had, in the late '60s, in between maybe using firstly the family Dansette then radiogram as […] The post Episode 115 – Original Upload 7.5.23 appeared first on 41Rooms.

This playlist is 77% vinyl friendly. Not bad. ‘Good if you love wood!' From Australian company, Classic, sometime after 1941. Thinner in depth than it looks here, you maybe wouldn't want to be playing anything valuable on that turntable, but the beast would look fine in a very large complimentarily looking log cabin. Nope, me […] The post Episode 114 – Original Upload 2.4.23 appeared first on 41Rooms.

This playlist is 74% vinyl friendly. Room for improvement. Looking like some early wall mounted intercom – apart from the ‘turntable' that is – say hello to The TT-90 System, by Olsson. Space saving in certain circumstances but I still wouldn't be a fan of the ‘vertical' malarkey. Any track marked * has been given […] The post Episode 113 – Original Upload 5.3.23 appeared first on 41Rooms.

This playlist is 87% vinyl friendly. Impressive. Audio-Technica's AT-LP2022 see through turntable, for when you might need to hide the fact you've spent $1200 on your hobby. Any track marked * has been given either a tiny or a slightly larger 41 Rooms ‘tweak'/edit/chop and the occasional tune might sound a bit dodgy, quality-wise. On […] The post Episode 112 – Original Upload 5.2.23 appeared first on 41Rooms.

This playlist is 92% vinyl friendly. Near perfect. ‘OK, lads. Check out the grooves!‘ Any track marked * has been given either a tiny or a slightly larger 41 Rooms ‘tweak'/edit/chop and the occasional tune might sound a bit dodgy, quality-wise. On top of that, the switch between different decades and production values never helps […] The post Episode 111 – Original Upload 1.1.23 appeared first on 41Rooms.

This playlist is 83% vinyl friendly. Impressive. A Technics SP10MK3 NGS, courtesy of Artisan Fidelity. I can't work out whether this was the idea of someone with a single hob cooker set up or (at the other end of the scale) maybe some four wheels transport, in the form of a top of the range […] The post Episode 110 – Original Upload 4.12.22 appeared first on 41Rooms.

This playlist is 77% vinyl friendly. Not bad. Holger Trass's thing (http://analogue-classics.com) is repositioning vintage analogue turntables in all manor of set ups. This ancient Garrard 301 (1950s?) deck might sound better than it looks, even if it doesn't feel as good… as it looks… errr, seeing as it's not in fact a marble plinth. […] The post Episode 109 – Original Upload 6.11.22 appeared first on 41Rooms.

This playlist is 81% vinyl friendly. Not bad. Fancy taking the car for a spin? Nothing more than a goddam novelty I'm surprised I haven't included this Stokyo Record Runner (hijacking a Volkawagon van) here before. I think they missed a trick though, as it's the fully windowed ‘hippy' fave version of the van that […] The post Episode 108 – Original Upload 2.10.22 appeared first on 41Rooms.

This playlist is 79% vinyl friendly. Not bad. There's a big daddy $200,000 Acoustic Signature Invictus Neo turntable but you can slum it with this Junior model, at $129,000. Available in silver, black/gold, or black/chrome and armed with four integrated, isolated AC motors. Looks like the sort of thing people who feel the need to […] The post Episode 107 – Original Upload 4.9.22 appeared first on 41Rooms.

This playlist is 90% vinyl friendly. Impressive. ‘The Planet' turntable. Put together in 2015 by a Lego loving lad named Hayarobi, using 2405 pieces, the only non-Lego part being the Audio-Technica 1Ea cartridge. He must like Swiss Rolls. Any track marked * has been given either a tiny or a slightly larger 41 Rooms ‘tweak'/edit/chop […] The post Episode 106 – Original Upload 7.8.22 appeared first on 41Rooms.

This playlist is 82% vinyl friendly. Impressive. As it happens, a Numark PT01USB Portable Vinyl-Archiving Turntable Any track marked * has been given either a tiny or a slightly larger 41 Rooms ‘tweak'/edit/chop and the occasional tune sonically might not sound quite how it did, originally… and note, there's a few expletives uttered in this […] The post Episode 105 – Original upload 3.7.22 appeared first on 41Rooms.

This playlist is 77% vinyl friendly. Not bad. AudioWood Sound Garden. Leaves on the tracks! Just because ‘you can' isn't always a great reason that ‘you should'. Any track marked * has been given either a tiny or a slightly larger 41 Rooms ‘tweak'/edit/chop and the occasional tune sonically might not sound quite how it […] The post Episode 104 – Original Upload 5.6.22 appeared first on 41Rooms.

PLAYLIST 103 uploaded May 1, 2022 and it's 91% vinyl friendly. Near perfect Grand Prix Audio's Parabolica (‘inspired by and built like a Formula 1 race car') is named after a turn at Italy's Monza circuit, so if Formula 1 floats your boat… $16,500. Tonearm extra.

PLAYLIST 102 uploaded April 3, 2022 and it's 73% vinyl friendly. Room for improvement.

PLAYLIST 101 uploaded Mar 6, 2022 and it's 93% vinyl friendly. Near perfect. Nothing to do with Emerson, Lake and Palmer, the ELP Laser Turntable may be for the younger generation who grew up knowing nothing but CDs… and who have around £10,000 to spend! ‘In theory, it's the perfect turntable because it uses a […] The post Episode 101 – 6.3.22 appeared first on 41Rooms.

PLAYLIST 100 uploaded Feb 6, 2022 Celebrating show #100 with 4hrs of 21st Century 7″ cheeriness! Unsurprisingly then, this one is 100% vinyl friendly. The occasionally-mentioned-in-these-parts big bunch of early 60s singles that arrived with a second hand Dansette my dad bought and the arrival of two of the Beatles' (She Loves You and I […] The post Episode 100 – 6.2.22 – 7″ Heaven! appeared first on 41Rooms.

PLAYLIST 99 uploaded Jan 2, 2022 and it's 88% vinyl friendly. Impressive. As of 2018 or so Audio Consulting's R-evolution Meteor-Stealth turntable was arguably the third most expensive turntable on the market. At $176,000 there sure as hell needs to be some back story – so, this is it and being a Switzerland-based company it […] The post Episode 99 – 2.1.22 appeared first on 41Rooms.

PLAYLIST 98 uploaded Dec 5, 2021 and it's 93% vinyl friendly. Near perfect. I can't remember if a means to play vinyl upright came before or after some of the gadgets that cleaned vinyl went with the same idea (in the seventies?) but this Gramovox is a cheap and cheerful modern day version of the […] The post Episode 98 – 5.12.21 appeared first on 41Rooms.

PLAYLIST 97 uploads Nov 7, 2021 and it's 74% vinyl friendly. Not bad. The Jive Turntable. Roughly £140 for this bright and breezy set up, so don't expect wonders. ‘Entry level', I think they call it… and that set of button controls reminds me of some remote/zapper used for the TV… or something else I […] The post Episode 97 – 7.11.21 appeared first on 41Rooms.

PLAYLIST 96 uploads Oct 3, 2021 and it's 96% vinyl friendly Near perfect. We'd have had a ‘full house' if it hadn't been for me including a demo from one of the bands I was involved with. The Saint Laurent Rive Droite x Pierre Riffaud viny table. I don't know how much of a clamour […] The post Episode 96 – 3.10.21 appeared first on 41Rooms.

PLAYLIST 95 uploaded Sept 5, 2021 and it's 77% vinyl friendly Not bad. The Third Man Records Spinnerette Turntable. Priced at $160 this isn't for your high end hi-fi buff but with tech improvements through the years I'm sure Jack White and his team have incorporated a quality level here that's well above what was […] The post Episode 95 – 5.9.21 appeared first on 41Rooms.

PLAYLIST 94 uploaded Aug 1, 2021 and it's 84% vinyl friendly! Impressive. Just a few of the over one hundred vintage (60's, 70's and 80's) portable record turntables, exhibited in 2016 at Tokyo's Lifestyle Design Center by record store owner, Fumihito Taguchi. In between my family's Dansette (early 60's) and the National Panasonic SG-1070L music centre […] The post Episode 94 – 1.8.21 appeared first on 41Rooms.

PLAYLIST 93 uploaded July 4, 2021 and is 82% vinyl friendly! Impressive. A Project Debut Carbon Evo turntable. A few friends have Projects of slightly older marks than this lad and they regularly score highly in reviews of turntables around the £400-£500 mark – and let's face it, if all you want to be interested […] The post Episode 93 – 4.7.21 appeared first on 41Rooms.

PLAYLIST 92 uploaded June 6, 2021 and is 89% vinyl friendly! Impressive. The Nordic Concept Reference Turntable, designed by A Better Life Audio Group. ‘The Milky Bars are on me!‘ Any track marked * has been given either a tiny or a slightly larger 41 Rooms ‘tweak'/edit/chop. Lyric of Playlist 92… The weight of Tim's […] The post Episode 92 – 6.6.21 appeared first on 41Rooms.

PLAYLIST 91 uploaded May 2, 2021 and is 71% vinyl friendly! Not bad. A Sony HMK-80B set up, from 1979. Nothing sonically gobsmacking here, but if my experience with the slightly earlier National Panasonic equivalent (the 41 Rooms homepage) is anything to go by, the ‘all in one’ nature of these music centres was very […] The post Episode 91 – 2.5.21 appeared first on 41Rooms.

PLAYLIST 90 uploaded April 4, 2021 and is 75% vinyl friendly! Not bad. This aesthetically beautiful beast is the Brionvega Radio-phonograph. Model no. RR 126. With Italian industrial design, the 1965 baby of architects, Achille and Pier Giacomo Castiglioni, if I’m ever in the position to be able and want to spend £5-6000+ on a […] The post Episode 90 – 4.4.21 appeared first on 41Rooms.

PLAYLIST 89 uploaded Mar 7, 2021 ?and is 81% vinyl friendly! Impressive. This is a 1960s Philips portable turntable and somewhere between my first ever falling in love with music (aged 7’ish, with a couple of Beatles 7″s in 1964 or so) and getting a National Panasonic SG 1070L music centre in the early to […] The post Episode 89 – 7.3.21 appeared first on 41Rooms.