REVIEW: Philips Combo Vinyl & CD Player
Added 2026-01-07 16:42:57 +0000 UTCWell it seemed like a good idea…
https://youtu.be/vLJdHxp6XFw
This has been a tricky one to assemble as every time I slept on it, I’d rethink something I’d done the previous day. I’d then go back to the ‘finished’ edit and replace whole segments with new bits. It’s all worked out in the end…I think.
Shame I couldn’t say the same about this device, however it can often be more interesting to look at something that has a few issues.
In other news, a decorator is redoing my lounge this week. It’s very fortunate I got the garden office built, as quite a bit of the furniture has been moved in here until he’s finished. The cat is extremely confused about the whole thing. Both he and I will be very glad when this is all finished.
Incidentally my yahoo email stopped receiving all Patreon emails in December for some unknown reason. They didn’t end up in spam or the bin, they just vanished. This included all notifications and messages. As a result I may have missed out on some things, apologies if that’s the case. I contacted Patreon about it but in the end switching email providers resolved the fault.
I hope your 2026 hasn’t fallen off the rails just yet. Take care.
UPDATE: Made a few nips/tucks to the video to clarify some things and tidy up a couple of rough edges.
Comments
I was hoping this might have a CD recorder that could capture all those crackles and pops in true HiFi quality. In the mid 80s I had an SVHS video recorder and every new LP I purchased was recorded to SVHS and then I used that as a master tape to make car tapes, althoug by 1994 I was an early adopter with a home made car MP3 player.
Mr.G
2026-01-16 11:27:35 +0000 UTCThat noise gate is a solution to a problem that doesn't exist: "I love the sound of music on records it's the times when there's no music that really puts me off." said no one. If it was a cd burner there would be a slight justification for automatically creating track ids but.. it's not thus it's unnecessary, clunky, and dumb. That money could have been spent on hmm, i dunno, say track buttons or feet. They're likely shoehorning in a part originally intended for that purpose. Tangentially related: Jukeboxes have a gate that is used as a A/B switcher. For example, the sound of the TV (A) is coming through the speakers, a customer plays a song on the jukebox (B), switch sees the voltage of the jukebox audio and flips to B. "Dance Yrself Clean". by LCD Soundsystem is always a treat as the wide dynamic range can tax the threshold setting and make it flip to and fro. I once had a bartender accuse me of breaking their sound system. Btw, I'm single. Please form an orderly queue.
Patrick Walsh
2026-01-13 23:46:39 +0000 UTCIt obviously says 'Reading' as 'Ashby-de-la-Zouch' wouldn't fit. My nephew went to the Reading Festival last year. I asked him what books they studied there. I don't think he got the joke.
Brad Jones
2026-01-08 23:26:27 +0000 UTCI had a Peavey guitar amp with a non-adjustable noise gate. It always cut off the first few milliseconds at the start of a song and cut short the fadeouts. I'd rather have no noise gate than a non-adjustable one
David E. Blankenship
2026-01-08 23:12:13 +0000 UTC
