My portable vinyl setup

[Onward]

You gotta play vinyl while bbq'ing in the park right?

http://home.no.net/onward2/hoffman/parksounds.jpg

The turntable is a vestax handytrax portable (http://www.kabusa.com/HANDYTRAX.htm), and the speaker system is a JBL On Tour (http://www.jbl.com/home/products/product_detail.aspx?prod=JBL%20ON%20TOUR&CheckProduct=Y). The built in speaker in the vestax has the sonic signature of a speakerphone, and somehow I think having a vibrating speaker in the "plinth" of the turntable is a bad idea :)

Ofcourse I only play used/worn records on this thing, no hoffman/gray mastered vinyl will get near this vinyl instrument of torture :laugh:

The 45's you see here were given to me stacked on top of each other with no covers, dusty and scratchy. Around ten beatles singles, a couple of rolling stones and one elvis. Oh, and Mungo Jerry's In the Summertime :righton: They all played without skipping, much to my surprise. Might have something to do with the approx 4g tracking force...

Ofcourse lugging a record player and heavy viunyl to the park is totally unnecessary in this ipod age, but that just makes it cool. My friends love it!

[CardinalFang]

That cool, but what kind of beer were you drinking? :laugh:

Seriously, that looks fun. :thumbsup:

[LeeS]

I think if you packed a real audiophile table you would benefit in two ways: 1. exercise from the extra weight, and 2. the spiked feet would couple better to the ground. :D

[Onward]

Somehow I fear that the audible gains from a real turntable would be lost in the higher ambient noise from the generator needed to power it :)

The beer is the norwegian brand Frydenlund in a handy 0,33 litre can :righton: