This Clever Little Upgrade Turns Your Vintage Gramophone into a Working Bluetooth Speaker
Maker JGJMatt has designed a device that turns any Edison-style gramophone into a working Bluetooth speaker — by sitting under the stylus.
"I have an obsession with vintage audio and unfortunately with my newest acquisition, a cabinet style Edison gramophone I've come to a realization that they take up a LOT of space for something that can't get used daily," JGJMatt explains of the project's inspiration. "That was until I came across an image of a very unusual vintage gadget called the Victor Dulce-Tone Radio Talking Machine… THIS CHANGES EVERYTHING!"
Inspired by the Victor Duce-Tone Radio Talking Machine (above), this Bluetooth add-on (top) turns any gramophone into a streaming speaker. (📷: antiqueradios.ch)
The predecessor to the modern record player and successor to Edison's wax-cylinder phonograph, the gramophone is a mechanical musical playback device which typically deploys clockwork to rotate a grooved disc to move a stylus that reads said groove...
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