Paris-based design studio Ready For Concepts has unveiled its first-ever vinyl turntable, modeled after the forward-thinking aesthetic and fashionable materiality of its furnishings, objects, and areas.
Based in 2021 by designer Jean-Baptiste Anotin, Ready For Concepts works on the intersection of artwork and design to create “visually putting and thought-provoking” items and installations. For its inaugural turntable, the studio aimed to create a meditative listening expertise by stripping again the design with a monolithic make-up that makes use of a strong block of aluminum.
Simplifying the capabilities of the machine, Ready For Concepts designed the piece with no management heart or tone arm, and makes use of superior expertise to mechanically detect the report pace as soon as inserted. All customers must do to pay attention is solely place the vinyl the other way up, join, and hit play. To make for a whole listening station, a custom-made pair of audio system is designed for dynamic configuration choices, with the power to be stacked with the participant on prime, or aspect by aspect like a conventional set-up.
As of late, distinctive turntable and speaker releases have picked up as designers are more and more utilizing these practical gadgets as canvases to discover new kinds and supplies. Collaborations like HELIOT EMIL x Nocs Design’s MONOLITH speaker and Teenage Engineering x John Lennon’s OB-4 Interactive Speaker share related particulars like chrome finishes and monolithic shapes. Elsewhere, rising NY-based model Silence Please is creating modern Hello-Fi audio system with gramophone-like displays.
Customized orders for Ready For Concepts’ PP-1 turntable can be found now by way of the model’s internet retailer.
