Ikea Made a Record Player With a Little Help From Swedish House Mafia

Ikea is set to enter the audio organization with the launch of a record participant, desk to spot it on, and an armchair to sit in when making the most of your favourite vinyl data.

The home furnishings maker collaborated(Opens in a new window) with dwelling new music team Swedish Household Mafia to style a new assortment called OBEGRÄNSAD(Opens in a new window), which is the Swedish phrase for “endless.” Ikea suggests the notion guiding OBEGRÄNSAD is to goal individuals with “a limited finances but limitless creative imagination.”

The file participant is the perform of Ikea solution structure engineer Carmen Stoicescu and designer Friso Wiersma. You may be amazed to hear this isn’t the very first record player Ikea has bought, but the last a person appeared back again in 1973. For this new participant, Wiersma explained(Opens in a new window), “we required the record player to be a incredibly actual physical manifestation of songs.”

The stop consequence is dependent close to a circle and a sq. combined to give the participant a “chunkiness” although remaining straightforward. The ultimate layout makes use of a replaceable cartridge and needle from a “effectively-acknowledged brand name” and a development that absorbs vibrations so as not to affect the sound. It is really also intended to be cost-effective, but Ikea has not divulged the price tag still.

The OBEGRÄNSAD desk consists of two speaker stands and a pull-out shelf under the desktop, even though the OBEGRÄNSAD armchair incorporates adjustable straps for “finetuning the comfort and ease degree.” Ikea created the two jointly so that sitting in the armchair sites the speakers on the desk at ear degree.

All 3 OBEGRÄNSAD goods are envisioned to launch in September, and will no question be marketed together with Ikea’s existing range of audio-pleasant goods which includes the Vappeby speaker lantern, Eneby Bluetooth speaker, and Symfonisk array of speakers.