[78-L] Portable record player

[David Lennick]

http://www.xmarks.com/site/www.aardvarkmastering.com/

These places cut lacquers and dubplates.

dl

Michael Biel wrote:
> We discussed a similar modern disc-cutting machine a couple of years ago
> which called the discs you could record "Dubplates".  Like this one, it
> was aimed at dance DJs who want to cut vinyl of recordings only issued
> on CD. The concept of recording onto vinyl blanks is interesting, and I
> wonder what their prices are and what the cutting styli are -- could
> they be used on old lathes.  Even if the machine is discontinued, if the
> supplies of blank discs and styli are available it would be alright.  If
> the supplies dry up, their past purchasers are up the creek!!
> 
>> If there is a market, the Chinese will be there to flood it with
>> their junk. Beware. We are being choked to death with their goods.
>> Mark L. Bardenwerper, Sr.
> 
> This is a Japanese company.  So where it is manufactured is possibly
> Japan or any other Asian country.  In fact, one of Japan's biggest
> problems is their own outsourcing to other countries where wages are
> cheaper than in Japan!  I quite agree that we have allowed our domestic
> manufacturing base disappear to the point where I wonder if something
> like this could actually be manufactured here in the U.S.  There was a
> short-lived "reality" show about inventions a year or two ago where
> people would try to interest a panel of money people with their
> inventions.  It was a part of the plans that a Chinese or other oriental
> manufacturing facility be used to make their product economically
> practical.  Nobody ever said that they had a factory across town that
> could make it, or even considered making it in the U.S.  Part of our
> problem is not the low wages of these countries but that shipping things
> halfway across the world is so cheap that it does not overcome the wage
> differences!!!  How come they can ship things so cheaply and when we get
> records, books, or CDs from overseas dealers the shipping costs more
> than the product???  I know the answer is "volume" but aren't there a
> large volume of stuff being mailed???
> 
> Mike Biel  mbiel at mbiel.com
> 
> 
> -------- Original Message --------
> Malcolm Rockwell wrote:
>> Just for the hell of it I was researching a turntable I heard of,
>> The Vestax Handi Trax,
>> http://www.vestax.com/v/products/active/active.html
>> which costs a couple hundred bucks and looks somewhat questionable,
>> when I came across THIS!
>> http://www.vestax.com/v/products/recorders/vrx2000.html
>> Seems they have all sorts of audio goodies besides these items.
>> I'd never heard of the company and really have no idea as to
>> their quality, but I am intrigued by the second item.
>