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Yeah, yeah. I know. Buying a record player isn\u2019t going to fix everything that\u2019s broken. But it was a nice thought, however fleeting. Long before the iPod, this strange mutant existed. Too weird to live, too strange to die, as someone once famously put it.<\/p>\n
The Audio-Technica Sound Burger \u2014 as it has affectionately come to be known \u2014 has also felt like a glimpse into some alternate timeline, where vinyl records didn\u2019t have to go away entirely to make a resurgence. Obviously the size of a 12-inch LP immediately mitigates any pretension of portability, so in the era of the Walkman, a product like this was always destined to be an evolutionary dead end.<\/p>\n
That, of course, hasn\u2019t stopped countless companies from producing countless knockoffs in the intervening decades. Nor, thankfully, has it precluded Audio-Technica from taking another spin with the delightful AT-SB2022. The newly announced take on the form factor is priced at $199 and is \u2014 understandably \u2014 a limited edition. The release was specifically timed to coincide with the company\u2019s 60th anniversary.<\/p>\n
Unlike its ancestor, which was built with wired headphones in mind (and shipped with a pair for that matter), this version has built-in connectivity, so you can pair it with a wireless headset or speakers. There\u2019s also a built-in battery rechargeable via USB-C that can get up to 12 hours in a single go. So, it\u2019s not going to make all the bad news go away, but it sure would be a lot of fun to bring along for an afternoon of crate digging.<\/p>\n
Image Credits:<\/strong> Audio Technica<\/p>\n<\/div>\n If your pockets are considerably deeper, there\u2019s always this fully transparent limited edition AT-LP2022 available for a cool $1,200. The belt-drive-operated manual turntable sports a Shibata stylus and carbon-fiber tonearm, all for the price of six Sound Burgers. If that\u2019s not enough, there\u2019s always this $9,000 stereo cartridge with a lab-grown diamond.<\/p>\n Maybe that will help drown out the news for a bit.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Yeah, yeah. I know. Buying a record player isn\u2019t going to fix everything that\u2019s broken. But it was a nice thought, however fleeting. Long before the iPod, this strange mutant existed. Too weird to live, too strange to die, as someone once famously put it. The Audio-Technica Sound Burger \u2014 as it has affectionately come […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1241191,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1241189","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-celebrity-gossip"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241189","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1241189"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1241189\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1241189"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1241189"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ghanamma.com\/2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1241189"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}