If you are interested in the feedback from Kickstarter backers - read this www.kickstarter.com/projects/pinkdonut/rokblok-a-new-spin-on-vinyl/comments Oh and *No I didn't have it at the wrong speed* - WATCH THE FOLLOW UP VIDEO rather posting this comment again - HERE IT IS th-cam.com/video/VYjDXgPDU94/w-d-xo.html If you need visual confirmation look at 3:42 - 4:00 - count how long it takes to do 10 revolutions and you'll get approx 17.9s. (10 / 17.9 * 60), - is approx 33.5RPM. If you want to hear a proper version of the 8-bit Keys theme used to demonstrate the record - here it is soundcloud.com/eox-studios/8bit_keys_theme-remix?in=eox-studios/sets/all-songs
I'm thinking the fix for the rok blok is to use a laser for tracking and a servo for centering. Or maybe dump the stylus all together and read the grooves with a laser.
Seeing that....thing.... smugly race around in circles, playing offkey and damaging the record, awakens some dormant yet irresistable caveman instinct within me to smash it with a club.
Yeah? What about the mental image of a bunch of celebrity investors at 4 am, a week after buying this company, sitting around a boardroom table. They're tugging at their hair, bags under their eyes, and discarded coffee cups litter the floor. On the table, at the center of their horrified attentions, a little wooden box squeals around in a circle on a vinyl record, belting out it's nightmarish interpretation of Darude's Sandstorm. The horrible realization is dawning on them. As the distorted, key shifted yowling of the cubical demon fills the room, they know. They wasted half a million dollars on this little piece of shit, and they will never make a dime off it.
@@Doggieman1111 Congratulations on the inheritance. If you have the humility that most wealthy heirs don't, it will go a long way to avoiding losing what you've got. Having lots of money doesn't make you smart--but it does make you a target for con artists.
When I saw it on Shark Tank, it immediately hit me that this would damage the LPs. A good turntable was designed to so carefully have the stylus float almost weightlessly in the track so as not to deform it with rack play, and LPs still wore out over time with playing. I hadn’t even heard of the Vinyl Killer.
If it worked then it would be cool. Much less space than a record player and presumably a lot cheaper, although obviously you still would need to carry around the records if you were using this away from home.
Indeed, he could of used instead some thrift-store Mantovani or Perry Como LP that's common as baseball cards to sacrifice to that piece-of-junk vinyl mutilator, what a trash product. :(
The guy who "invented" this on Shark Tank was a total liar. He claimed to be an audiophile, claimed to have taught himself electrical engineering by watching youtube, and had a lovely story about how the concept came to him --despite the fact that his design is undeniably ripped off from a product that's been around forever. He even admitted that he didn't have a design patent. Shark Tank should have a spinoff called "Shark Tank Litigation." They can feature this deal.
The giveaway that this guy was full of shit was that he lived in a 300 sq ft apartment and was a previous employee at Apple. I guess Apple is paying its intelligent employees only enough to live in small apartments the size of my kitchen.
>Step1: Take an old concept and rebuild it with chinese parts, doen't matter if it works well >Step2: Add bluetooth to it >Step3: ??????? >Step4: Profit
It's not called a Vinyl Killer. That's just what Techmoan called it in the title as a joke because of the fact that it destroys records. It's actually called the RokBlok. 🤦
Its still analog so im sure they would swear this is far better than a CD, you just have to relax and listen to the feel of the higher frequencies above 20khz which CDs can't play but LPs totally can and they aren't at all distorted harmonics.
@@tjl2836 Well that applies even more to analog as there is no error correction at all, every manipulation of the data changes it, from the master recording to cutting it into the LP mold, then cover it with a conductive ink then electroplating the metal layer then clean it and use it to imprint and press the vinyl disks, the dust and wear it has, impurities in the plastic itself, then you have the variables of your turntable, ho good it is, the wow and flutter stability, stylus wear and quality, harmonics induced into it by high frequency vibrations, and also all what applies to digital audio, the quality of the preamplifiers and the main amplifiers. As long as your equipment is good and you use high bit rates and sampling rates digital will outperform most analog formats easily, technically and objectively, there is a reason audio recorders are even used as cheap and low bandwidth methods to record waveform instead of using an expensive oscilloscope, they are also very convenient.
He's been offered 2 years salary with the shark on a 6 figure minimum salary. He's made at least $700,000. Good on him, this is one of the finest Fools and their Money scenarios I've seen in a while.
Judging by the amount of damage it does to the record, why wouldn't you use it on Milli Vanilli? Two or three plays and the record is ready for the recycle bin like all trash.
Where's the satisfaction in that? You would have spent 100 quid on the RokBlok and not used it. By using the RokBlok on the Milli vanilla record, you'd get your money out of it while contributing to the environment later.
I'm really late, but I think the way it works is that it uses the needle as a guide to drive around the record, so instead of the needle being guided through the record as it spins, the needle is pushing into the record and using it as a track
You know I would love to see someone design something like this that actually work properly and didn’t damage your records. It would be an interesting little feat of engineering
Well, you will want the weight of the electronics to be pretty far away from the stylus so it doesn't apply that much pressure, kind of like an arm. You could add some thicker wheels so the pressure is lower, but then the dust would scratch the record anyway, so the best idea is to have the wheels outside the record. Then the problem is that you need to be able to tell how close you are to the center of the record so you can adjust the speed, you need some kind of structure that goes to the center of the record and sticks to it so you can know the angular velocity. Then, since the wheels are outside, you need a flat table and you might as well just let it turn. You've just made a regular record player.
They shouldn't even be allowed to sell that for any price! There's a difference between a funny gag gift and a vinyl-destruction machine; unfortunately, this falls into the latter. You'd get better sound quality from a record using the pencil and paper cone trick...
"God-awful" seems generous to a fault. If I still had a vinyl collection, I wouldn't let that blocky thing anywhere near them. I'm shocked Mat used the record he did for a test. A cheap junk disc from a thrift shop would have been funnier.
The Siund wagon runs off of 2 AAs or some models 2 AAAs for less weihgt meaning less tracking force. The Rok Blok runs off a lithium cell, I wonder if they went for something too heavy?
Thanks to you, I fell in love with a brand-new artist. ^_^ Thank you so much for sharing this music!! And keep up the amazing work with the videos; I love your content.
Kind of a double gag in the instructions when they mention voiding the warranty if you play a milli vanilli record... as milli vanilli was the first major release on CD and cassette only. 😁
yes to 9tailfan yes i would to see that, but no burning it is too easy, i think it be better to see what ashens could do with it, also i don't think any store will want it so it'll end up in landfill ort he shelfs of every thirft store/chairty shop
beetooex I think it's less "amazing" and more being a good guy who lets others use his music royalty-free in exchange for a liiiittle bit of publicity.
Next time rub a brick over the record, less damage and better sound. And after that you have something you could throw through the window of the RokBlok guys...
This is some of the funniest commentary for some reason. I was practically crying as i sat on the floor in Walmart to watch this video with my friend before she potentially bought one 😂 watching it fly around in a circle mixed with the music and the comments had me rolling thank you 🤣
It looks like something that a person who really hates vinyls has invented. It was physically painful to watch. While I can understand the old one, because it was meant to be a toy, so probably it would only be used on vinyls that are already damaged or contain some kids' songs, this is an abomination,. It's supposed to look and cost like something that offers acceptable sound quality and a relatively low chance of destroying a record, at least to someone who has never played a record before. Think about all the records it destroyed due to what it actually does. I doubt that a similar device can be much better than that, unless it involves active steering where the needle cartridge is mounted on a light and independently moving arm with a position sensor and the wheel motors are actively controlled based on that, or using an optical mouse kind of camera. And getting precise speed control is more than problematic due to hard to predict traction, especially as it wears off.
All the mechanical badness aside, isn't this contraption playing with constant linear velocity instead of with constant angular velocity as the record was made for? So it would sound more like a chipmunk on drugs the closer to the center of the record it gets.
Probably, they cold compensate the speed by coupling the angle of the tone arm to a speed controller. But I somehow doubt they made an afford to do so. Tracks in the middle will most likely be closest to what it should be. Apart from that it sounds like the speed is all over the place anyway.
It's so fucking bad it makes me want to cut myself when I know that the "inventor" sold the company for 500k dollars and earned 100k+ a year. And here I am designing and building some of the best sounding high end headphones in the world from scratch that nobody cares about.
I couldn't agree more with you, that RokBlok thing has "bad idea" written all over it. I definitely wouldn't put that thing on my collection records nor would I spend the money that you paid for it. Total waste of money for sure. R.I.P poor record!!!
The fact that it pushes the needle forward, instead of dragging it along probably pushes it into the vinyl even harder... That just hurts to think about, poor vinyl...
Oh god, that's a total rip. I came into this video wondering just how these could avoid being "vinyl killers", only to see exactly how they got the namesake.
I am so glad i watched this. I would have been pissed if i tried that product out. Thank you for your video and record sacrifice to let other people know about that nightmare.
Even if the shark made 10 dollars of net profit per unit, they only needed to sell 50 thousand units to make their money back, so they were probably able to find enough suckers. Also, it is way more than 10 dollars of profit per unit. I would imagine the target demographic is Crosley owners.
Any recommendations for a cheap turn table?? My dad has a bunch of records and I want to give him one as a gift but my budget is limited, he has a modest home theater that I build for him so I'm looking to add a budget friendly turn table to it
I too had to find on Shark Tank this and see if they somehow heard some thing different and it sounded just as crappy. But they were all amazed like it was magic. I guess it has some sort of novelty appeal at $89.
Wow something that makes 8 tracks sound like FLAC files. HA!!! I think I could spend less money destroying my vinyl by throwing them like frisbees to my dog.
I bet if you took off that mediocre laser cut cover you'd find it's a re-skinned sound wagon. Why else would you leave the on switch the same as the car antenna from sound wagons?
How does it compensate for the fact that the speed of play on a record groove is not linear? Seems like if you ever played a whole record, the music slow down as it approached the center.
I've just looked on the RokBlok website and this abomination is apparently out of stock at the moment. I wonder if the company took a page out of Atari's book and buried every player they could get their hands on :-)
That plays records just as bad the Vinyl Killer did. And that wood block is ugly. The original VW microbus (or better yet a 50's Crosley Wagon) would have been a better choice. BTW if you have a used record store or thrift store nearby, go buy some obscure records to trash instead.
Well, for one thing, the whole stylus/cartridge assembly seems to be mounted backwards relative to the motion of the RokBlok around the record. That alone would do some pretty serious damage to any record it plays. Couple it with more than 5 grams of stylus pressure and you may as well just chisel your record with a railroad spike! Thanks for the cautionary review, Techmoan.
I remember seeing the demo video of this a while back, and I noticed they never showed you the part of the machine that contacts the record, which I thought was quite suspicious. Looks like my instinct was right.
Don't you get it? Shark Tank endorses and finances all the wrong people. This guy is a charlatan and a crook and Shark Tank financed him. A truly brilliant inventor wouldn't get a penny from Shark Tank. Remember Edison ripping off Tesla?
If you are interested in the feedback from Kickstarter backers - read this www.kickstarter.com/projects/pinkdonut/rokblok-a-new-spin-on-vinyl/comments
Oh and *No I didn't have it at the wrong speed* - WATCH THE FOLLOW UP VIDEO rather posting this comment again - HERE IT IS th-cam.com/video/VYjDXgPDU94/w-d-xo.html If you need visual confirmation look at 3:42 - 4:00 - count how long it takes to do 10 revolutions and you'll get approx 17.9s. (10 / 17.9 * 60), - is approx 33.5RPM. If you want to hear a proper version of the 8-bit Keys theme used to demonstrate the record - here it is soundcloud.com/eox-studios/8bit_keys_theme-remix?in=eox-studios/sets/all-songs
""I have sent you a PM :)))""
amazing customer support kek
Thanks! You seem to not be the only person complaining. Almost the whole comment section full of problems. Keep up your good video's!
Techmoan Wow! Problems of every variety including type approval!
I can’t imagine this on a 7” 45. I think it would “slide off the road” !
I'm thinking the fix for the rok blok is to use a laser for tracking and a servo for centering. Or maybe dump the stylus all together and read the grooves with a laser.
I thought it would be bad. I didn't think it would be THAT bad.
exactly!
Agreed.
Man you are soo right .. that's a terrible toy ... I would never let it drive over my cherished Milli Vanilli vinyl collection anyway.
The magic of crowdfunding!
Good Man.
Seeing that....thing.... smugly race around in circles, playing offkey and damaging the record, awakens some dormant yet irresistable caveman instinct within me to smash it with a club.
IronCascade, not alone. I now know why we killed off the neanderthal. Tall pricks.
Ha Ha Ha Ha!!!
Yeah? What about the mental image of a bunch of celebrity investors at 4 am, a week after buying this company, sitting around a boardroom table. They're tugging at their hair, bags under their eyes, and discarded coffee cups litter the floor. On the table, at the center of their horrified attentions, a little wooden box squeals around in a circle on a vinyl record, belting out it's nightmarish interpretation of Darude's Sandstorm. The horrible realization is dawning on them. As the distorted, key shifted yowling of the cubical demon fills the room, they know. They wasted half a million dollars on this little piece of shit, and they will never make a dime off it.
Very accurate feeling
@Grant Edwards: Brilliant description, loved it! :D
It sounds like the record is screaming in pain...
AAAAAAAAAA WHAT HAVE I DONE TO YOU ALL I WANTED TO DO IS PLAY SOME NICE MUSIC STOP ASSAULTING ME WITH THIS CRAPPY TOY CAR
That's because it is...
5:01
sounds like a fever dream
@@mylesrodenhouseit was set to the right speed…
The guy who sold the "company" for $500,000 probably burst into laughter once he walked out the door of where they film Shark Tank.
Turns out that the shark in the tank wasn’t the millionaire
500k plus 2 year contract(six figures) job plus 1% on royalty on every product sold best deal ever
its just a tv show. Dont believe everything they say on there
Most rich people inherited their money. Often, they have no sense or real industrial acumen. This is just one more example.
@@Doggieman1111 Congratulations on the inheritance. If you have the humility that most wealthy heirs don't, it will go a long way to avoiding losing what you've got. Having lots of money doesn't make you smart--but it does make you a target for con artists.
When I saw it on Shark Tank, it immediately hit me that this would damage the LPs. A good turntable was designed to so carefully have the stylus float almost weightlessly in the track so as not to deform it with rack play, and LPs still wore out over time with playing. I hadn’t even heard of the Vinyl Killer.
Truly, this device is the answer to a question nobody asked.
That's pretty much Kickstarter in a nutshell.
If it worked then it would be cool. Much less space than a record player and presumably a lot cheaper, although obviously you still would need to carry around the records if you were using this away from home.
And the answer to that question is a resounding "no"
@@SSs-ch4ey Spotify already found a solution to that problem.
@@DobuDobuDobuDot Spotify can play vinyl disks? Wow!
Buy two and race them.
LAZY DOG lol!
a new way of djing
Unroll a Tefifon cartridge and race them in a straight line
LAZY DOG 0
Dude i'm at work and I started laughing like a mad man LOL
Poor Retro Grooves' record, it didn't deserve that kind of punishment.
Tell me about it! 8-bit Guy even said those records cost about $80 a piece to make so I'd be really pissed!
Guillermo Tessi I was nearly tearing up when I heard that he was going to use the record
Indeed, he could of used instead some thrift-store Mantovani or Perry Como LP that's common as baseball cards to sacrifice to that piece-of-junk vinyl mutilator, what a trash product. :(
and nothing of value was lost
@@obamayomama8291 that might have been intentional to make sure nobody walks away with any shred of respect for this awful bit of kit.
The guy who "invented" this on Shark Tank was a total liar. He claimed to be an audiophile, claimed to have taught himself electrical engineering by watching youtube, and had a lovely story about how the concept came to him --despite the fact that his design is undeniably ripped off from a product that's been around forever. He even admitted that he didn't have a design patent.
Shark Tank should have a spinoff called "Shark Tank Litigation." They can feature this deal.
Even worse, he said he was an Audio Engineer.
So he was a genius
what’s the original
@@ChicaChickenXD it's in beginning of video,the volkswagon van
The giveaway that this guy was full of shit was that he lived in a 300 sq ft apartment and was a previous employee at Apple. I guess Apple is paying its intelligent employees only enough to live in small apartments the size of my kitchen.
>Step1: Take an old concept and rebuild it with chinese parts, doen't matter if it works well
>Step2: Add bluetooth to it
>Step3: ???????
>Step4: Profit
Step 3 is shark tank
xpikkari Kickstarter, then Shark Tank
No profits if you're constantly processing refunds or shipping out replacements. This was a swing and a miss
@@jonsku1400 Not Stonks
Step 3: No good hipsters buy it because it's "cool" and "hip".
No wonder it's called a Vinyl Killer.
It would make a good gift for someone you don't like.
It's not called a Vinyl Killer. That's just what Techmoan called it in the title as a joke because of the fact that it destroys records. It's actually called the RokBlok. 🤦
Bob D
Aaaaaaa
@@Titchy2005 wow you are sure a beast at the parties
Warboss With the Power Klaw 😉 I would be...
However, I have no friends and no social life
@@Titchy2005 that was obviously sarcasm and you missed it
I think the birthday card that played a record sounded better.
So’s nails on a chalkboard
@@defrozendonut8715
So is me slipping with my angle grinder and burying it crotch-wards 😂
If you combine that with the window cleaning robot, you would have the perfect tool for breaking and entering by cutting holes in windows.
The noise it makes would startle people four blocks down though.
ROTFLMAO
I fucking love the Internet
Hahahahah I'm dead you are so creative this is so funny
Would be more useful than using it to play records
"the only way this could be worse is if I paid five hundred thousand dollars for it"
BOOM!
An Audiophile nightmare.
@Bobby Fisher word up!
Its still analog so im sure they would swear this is far better than a CD, you just have to relax and listen to the feel of the higher frequencies above 20khz which CDs can't play but LPs totally can and they aren't at all distorted harmonics.
@@teresashinkansen9402 digital audio is _technically_ better than vinyl but only if you have the right equipment and the highest quality audio files.
@@tjl2836 Well that applies even more to analog as there is no error correction at all, every manipulation of the data changes it, from the master recording to cutting it into the LP mold, then cover it with a conductive ink then electroplating the metal layer then clean it and use it to imprint and press the vinyl disks, the dust and wear it has, impurities in the plastic itself, then you have the variables of your turntable, ho good it is, the wow and flutter stability, stylus wear and quality, harmonics induced into it by high frequency vibrations, and also all what applies to digital audio, the quality of the preamplifiers and the main amplifiers. As long as your equipment is good and you use high bit rates and sampling rates digital will outperform most analog formats easily, technically and objectively, there is a reason audio recorders are even used as cheap and low bandwidth methods to record waveform instead of using an expensive oscilloscope, they are also very convenient.
Note to self, take existing product, make it uglier and add bluetooth, then sell idea for 500k.
He's been offered 2 years salary with the shark on a 6 figure minimum salary. He's made at least $700,000. Good on him, this is one of the finest Fools and their Money scenarios I've seen in a while.
And make it do more damage and sound worse
It works with Blue tooth and he played the record at the wrong speed to make it sound bad.
I don't think you need worry about copyright problems. Surely you have to recognise what it is before any breach of copyright occurs. :D
Cthulhu1970 the way this was mangled, it might end up content-ID matching some noisecore track xD
I suspect he didn't want to put any from his personal collection down..
Colin Johnston plenty of throwaway records available for just a few pence...
FiXato I was replying to the original commenter but none the less. Perhaps he doesn't live next door to a throwaway record seller? Just a thought..
Judging by the amount of damage it does to the record, why wouldn't you use it on Milli Vanilli? Two or three plays and the record is ready for the recycle bin like all trash.
Thanks, we try.
As Milli Vinilli records are already junk wouldn't it be cheaper and easier to just put them directly in the recycle bin? (Along with the RokBlok)
Where's the satisfaction in that? You would have spent 100 quid on the RokBlok and not used it. By using the RokBlok on the Milli vanilla record, you'd get your money out of it while contributing to the environment later.
Good point, if you are going to waste your money you might as well get some fun out of it!
girl, you know it's true
I never thought Techmoan would do a Kickstarter Crap episode. Good work!
maybe im wrong, but it looks like the needle is mounted backwards. that would explain the terrible condition it leaves the record in.
Meaning either horrible QA or horrible design.
Isaac Bailey Most likely the latter.
I'm really late, but I think the way it works is that it uses the needle as a guide to drive around the record, so instead of the needle being guided through the record as it spins, the needle is pushing into the record and using it as a track
@@chrisfratz that sounds painful.
that is the design of those runners: the stylus is steering the wagon in the curve while pushing hard on the outer rim of the groove.
Thank you for the $500,000.....now here is your ShitBlok.
ah many chuckles here, thanks
and 6 digit salary and $5 for everyone of these sold.... what a good deal
Yup. The guy is set for life, but made something that's absolute shit.
Laughing all the way to the bank.
What a hateful little device
Umm, you're right. It's not exactly a Croz.
lol
Actually fun to use (provided it's not expensive) to play normal records. Not your good rare vinyls.
@@Fadlinification Please use only on Vinyl you are about to throw in the trash.
Techmoan, time to start a shelf of shame! This one is deserving of top honors. Have the muppets beat it with sticks!
That would be amazing!
To put it on a shelf would be honoring it, in my opinion.
@@Satoshi9801 they need to be mounted as warning to others
I don’t know which is more soothing. Your voice or your musical outro !
or RokBlok on vinyl
I always come away with Sacred Spirit Wishes of Happiness and Prosperity stuck in my head, very similar chords
GAY
You know I would love to see someone design something like this that actually work properly and didn’t damage your records. It would be an interesting little feat of engineering
ditch the speaker and make it purely wireless
Well, you will want the weight of the electronics to be pretty far away from the stylus so it doesn't apply that much pressure, kind of like an arm. You could add some thicker wheels so the pressure is lower, but then the dust would scratch the record anyway, so the best idea is to have the wheels outside the record. Then the problem is that you need to be able to tell how close you are to the center of the record so you can adjust the speed, you need some kind of structure that goes to the center of the record and sticks to it so you can know the angular velocity. Then, since the wheels are outside, you need a flat table and you might as well just let it turn. You've just made a regular record player.
They shouldn't even be allowed to sell that for any price!
There's a difference between a funny gag gift and a vinyl-destruction machine; unfortunately, this falls into the latter.
You'd get better sound quality from a record using the pencil and paper cone trick...
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They did make a *better* "Vinyl Killer" though. Literally.
They should have put a blow torch to warp the record as it goes and an epoxy stream to fill the grooves. That would be a real improvement.
£100 for that? Total ripoff
WOW, you clearly don't see a bargain when you see one!! 😅
waste of money
Can't wait for the CD player version!
He he good one :)
I don't think it's a rip-off. I think anyone who buys one gets exactly what they deserve.
But it’s so cute little box is trying his best 🥺
It sounds like an razor1911 crack music while copying the code for a game instalation
Or a pirated game from the late 80's-early 90's.
@@IvanovIvanAKrutoi yeah, sounds like the opening to any amiga era cracked game
At least the original one looked cool.
And sounded decent😂
I don't think I've ever been more uncomfortable watching a youtube video. I felt so bad for your record
Maroplume You _literally_ felt like dying???? Over a record? What are we coming to? LOL
You must be just the absolute life of the party, umageddon.
I literally couldn't believe your use of literally.
Still better than a Logan Paul video
Courtartuious Parpopolie i am literally yes
Nice to see my monthly Patreon contribution has been put to good use! That gimmick was totally hilarious and truly God-awful! :-)
lol okay>
"God-awful" seems generous to a fault. If I still had a vinyl collection, I wouldn't let that blocky thing anywhere near them. I'm shocked Mat used the record he did for a test. A cheap junk disc from a thrift shop would have been funnier.
he used a record that the youtube watchmen cant flag...
What if a perfect one of these things are made a few years from now, and this was the prototype?
yamahonkawazuki What? Explain.
So, they completely ripped off the Sound Wagon, but made it worse.
The Siund wagon runs off of 2 AAs or some models 2 AAAs for less weihgt meaning less tracking force. The Rok Blok runs off a lithium cell, I wonder if they went for something too heavy?
Thanks to you, I fell in love with a brand-new artist. ^_^ Thank you so much for sharing this music!! And keep up the amazing work with the videos; I love your content.
Kind of a double gag in the instructions when they mention voiding the warranty if you play a milli vanilli record... as milli vanilli was the first major release on CD and cassette only. 😁
Bohus Blahut I’m sure there’s bootleg vinyl copies out there.
You can find Milli Vanilli records on almost any fleamaket...so it's not true^^
SLIMKUTT stupid
@@SLIMKUTT Girl you know it's true
@@SLIMKUTT I wonder how many of those records will skip.
You should give the 8-bit guy one so he can steamroll it (literally).
That episode was great
please link me this video, i need to see it. ive been binge watching 8bit keys and 8bit guy all week.
th-cam.com/video/GNgm8Cn-HpY/w-d-xo.html
+The Astro Gamer You could say that the RokBlok should be steamrolled in revenge for steamrolling the record!
The Astro Gamer Ah, I remember that... :)
I imagine this will end up for $9.99 in the Walmart "as seen on tv" bin, in a year or so.
Not even that....
WallyWinka It will end up in Pound Land then Ashens can buy it and burn it on his brown couch.
yes to 9tailfan yes i would to see that, but no burning it is too easy, i think it be better to see what ashens could do with it,
also i don't think any store will want it so it'll end up in landfill ort he shelfs of every thirft store/chairty shop
$5 below stores in the USA.
It will be on the shelf with the ouya
3:31 is when fans of "8-Bit Keys" began weeping openly.
Gorgeous! It's bringing all the superiority of vinyl to life.
Wonderful, prime modern Hi-Fi.
If you lived all your life in hell!
If the 8 Bit Guys next video doesnt begin with that thin, warbly, disgusting sounding version of his intro song i will be very disapointed.
That would be cool april fools or something
The 8BG already changed that intro music some time ago. He has another one by Jensen, I suppose.
Actually, thay song is played on his other channel, 8 bit keys
Can you make a SID chip sound that bad?
Damn, the chap who invented this got really lucky with that 500k deal.
too right, sell asap and get the money! clever guy.
He didnt invent anything. He took an existing product, added bluetooth and usb charging too it. And that's it.
And put it in a new package.
500k, 2 year job with a 6 figure salary and $5 for every unit sold. That mans set for life
Well my rokblok played at the correct speed. After reviewing it I simply took it back to WalMart and got my $59 back.
"It's an abomination." ROFL!
Now I know why your name is TechMOAN. LOL
Excellent review BTW. Top notch work. Now I gotta see the tear down...
So Anders is now a *former* friend of the channel? ;)
Anders is a cool guy - he thought this was funny.
And he's obviously sending you another copy of the record?
No see the RokBlok is new and innovative in that it dynamically creates new remixes of the music you have it play.
Anders is a friend of ALL the good channels. It's quite amazing how he's managed it.
beetooex I think it's less "amazing" and more being a good guy who lets others use his music royalty-free in exchange for a liiiittle bit of publicity.
Jesus. I didn't know a record player could be drunk.
And yet here it is.
At least the wagon one had some charm.
This is just an abysmal wooden block.
with an odd on/off 'switch' that is
Betcha didnt know they can be sexed too
To me it sounds more like it's high on crack
Next time rub a brick over the record, less damage and better sound.
And after that you have something you could throw through the window of the RokBlok guys...
hahaha
3:42 sounds like a high-pitched techno party run by mice on drugs.
ALL Techno sounds like mice on drugs!!!
I was cringing so much watching it spin around the record. I mean that, and the fact it sounds terrible!
That poor Anders Enger Jensen record!
I physically cringed when I saw it play
Is there a way to cringe non-physically?
Only *Y E S*
But then it's not cringing.
Cringing is something you physically do.
You can't non-physically punch somebody and you can't non-physically cringe.
There is probably a reason why he sold 100% stock in his company lmao
Arthur G smart man
I would sell tf out if this idea quick
Just put your record in a paper shredder. Might sound better!
spin on end of drill, use umbrella for needle and make it louder, cant be any worse
This is some of the funniest commentary for some reason. I was practically crying as i sat on the floor in Walmart to watch this video with my friend before she potentially bought one 😂 watching it fly around in a circle mixed with the music and the comments had me rolling thank you 🤣
It looks like something that a person who really hates vinyls has invented. It was physically painful to watch. While I can understand the old one, because it was meant to be a toy, so probably it would only be used on vinyls that are already damaged or contain some kids' songs, this is an abomination,. It's supposed to look and cost like something that offers acceptable sound quality and a relatively low chance of destroying a record, at least to someone who has never played a record before. Think about all the records it destroyed due to what it actually does.
I doubt that a similar device can be much better than that, unless it involves active steering where the needle cartridge is mounted on a light and independently moving arm with a position sensor and the wheel motors are actively controlled based on that, or using an optical mouse kind of camera. And getting precise speed control is more than problematic due to hard to predict traction, especially as it wears off.
You just cost the Shark Tank guy some hundred thousand dollars with your video...
Good job! :-D
ricarleite that's what they get when they don't fully research an idea
Love it
I hope your just trolling
Yeah.
Fuck those greedy shark tank bastards anyway. I hope they eat shit and die
Can't wait for the reel to reel version!
Hundred Hundred-Thousand yes!
It'll just be a tape head with wheels.
All the mechanical badness aside, isn't this contraption playing with constant linear velocity instead of with constant angular velocity as the record was made for? So it would sound more like a chipmunk on drugs the closer to the center of the record it gets.
Insert *THANK YOU* gif
I didn't even think of that. What a POS
Probably, they cold compensate the speed by coupling the angle of the tone arm to a speed controller. But I somehow doubt they made an afford to do so.
Tracks in the middle will most likely be closest to what it should be. Apart from that it sounds like the speed is all over the place anyway.
it does compensate by the angle
It's so fucking bad it makes me want to cut myself when I know that the "inventor" sold the company for 500k dollars and earned 100k+ a year. And here I am designing and building some of the best sounding high end headphones in the world from scratch that nobody cares about.
I couldn't agree more with you, that RokBlok thing has "bad idea" written all over it.
I definitely wouldn't put that thing on my collection records nor would I spend the money that you paid for it.
Total waste of money for sure.
R.I.P poor record!!!
You had me in stitches man, I don't think I have ever laughed as hard at a Techmoan video.
The fact that it pushes the needle forward, instead of dragging it along probably pushes it into the vinyl even harder... That just hurts to think about, poor vinyl...
Max Waterman It wouldn't because it's a overpriced, overhyped piece of crap...
This thing is a joke, hard to believe a product like that got funded.
Combine it with laser groove reading, and it might at least not damage the records. Speed variations could be stabilized in software ..
1:32
That "yeah, ok." perfectly sums it up.
That was pretty good but I would have liked to see how high it jumped when it hit a really nasty scratch on a junk record.
"indescribably awful". I'm stealing that phrase.
I miss your little muppet friend at the end of some of your videos.
We definitely needed the muppets after watching this abomination.
I think the muppets had too much food and alcohol these festive days
Puppet. Muppets are sesomy street...
Send it to Matt at Demolition Ranch so he can shoot it with a .50 BMG
Oh god, that's a total rip. I came into this video wondering just how these could avoid being "vinyl killers", only to see exactly how they got the namesake.
I am so glad i watched this. I would have been pissed if i tried that product out. Thank you for your video and record sacrifice to let other people know about that nightmare.
Shark Tank bought this?
Catwow he bought out the entire company lock stock and barrel. I saw the episode.
Even if the shark made 10 dollars of net profit per unit, they only needed to sell 50 thousand units to make their money back, so they were probably able to find enough suckers. Also, it is way more than 10 dollars of profit per unit. I would imagine the target demographic is Crosley owners.
Any recommendations for a cheap turn table?? My dad has a bunch of records and I want to give him one as a gift but my budget is limited, he has a modest home theater that I build for him so I'm looking to add a budget friendly turn table to it
You can find 50,000 vinyl nerds who would drop money on this??? Maybe if it was $20-45 in the impulse or gag gift range!
I too had to find on Shark Tank this and see if they somehow heard some thing different and it sounded just as crappy. But they were all amazed like it was magic.
I guess it has some sort of novelty appeal at $89.
I'm sure my cat Mya would really enjoy the RokBlok. 🐈 😻
Martin Kronström Just don't use any records you want to keep. Maybe a Yanni album or three.
Should have sold it as a cat toy that plays records, still £100 is a bit of a stretch for a cat toy.
I don’t want to be around when The 8-Bit Guy hears his 8-Bit Keys theme that screwed up
That was supposed to be the 8-Bit Keys theme!!!!?
I love the shark tank roast on the end 😂
Wow something that makes 8 tracks sound like FLAC files. HA!!! I think I could spend less money destroying my vinyl by throwing them like frisbees to my dog.
Maybe it was designed by a rogue Crosley employee hoping to improve his boss' reputation
I bet if you took off that mediocre laser cut cover you'd find it's a re-skinned sound wagon. Why else would you leave the on switch the same as the car antenna from sound wagons?
Great for those lazy DJs! Scratch those records with ease.
literally scratch them
no need, djs just have to press the play button on their macs, this is 2018.
Tom5tom Entertainment (rimshot)
On their Macs? I hope they arent throwing an extra thousand bucks out just to play Lil Uzi Vert
Robert Woodall an old iPod with a aux port would do for EDC.
How does it compensate for the fact that the speed of play on a record groove is not linear? Seems like if you ever played a whole record, the music slow down as it approached the center.
Hi! Cool Vid! How Heavy should the arm be? I have an ION TTUSB and idk what weight to set it at..... What do you reccomend?
I've just looked on the RokBlok website and this abomination is apparently out of stock at the moment. I wonder if the company took a page out of Atari's book and buried every player they could get their hands on :-)
Mark Caswell yeah, and as far as I know at least ET wouldn't destroy your Atari console when you tried to play it.
Unfortunately they're selling well.
glswenson "a fool and his money are soon parted."
I was sure this video was going to end with a hammer in the garage :)
Wow! Something I'll never buy!
I actually feel sorry that you only made this video because so many people requested it!
I noticed it was playing very high pitched and unless you changed it back on frame, it was set to 45 when you played the 33
That plays records just as bad the Vinyl Killer did. And that wood block is ugly. The original VW microbus (or better yet a 50's Crosley Wagon) would have been a better choice. BTW if you have a used record store or thrift store nearby, go buy some obscure records to trash instead.
Right...that VW bus would at least be a funny gift for a vinyl fan...this junk here is just a waste of resources!
Quality vid techmoan like always
Well, for one thing, the whole stylus/cartridge assembly seems to be mounted backwards relative to the motion of the RokBlok around the record. That alone would do some pretty serious damage to any record it plays. Couple it with more than 5 grams of stylus pressure and you may as well just chisel your record with a railroad spike! Thanks for the cautionary review, Techmoan.
At 2m59s I was literally rolling under the table « THIS IS HIFI FROM 2018 BABY! » Such a revolution
In this review, i noticed you've had the needle in the locked position the whole time!!! Isn't it supposed to be in the free move position ?? 🤔
"Pink donut" sounds like an apt euphamism for the people who made this.
alex E it's what you are left with after the company have shafted you. Haha
The whole lot of them are just a bunch of pink donuts...
- Eddy
What is a pink donut in corporate lingo? Please light my dim bulb.
This may be the worst thing I've ever seen or heard. I'm not letting one of those within a 10 mile radius of my record collection.
What if your neighbor bought it?
S H I guess somebody has to die then😂
I think the clicks from the scratch enhance the record. Sound like kick drums lol.
Brandon Shave pretty fucked up kick drums if you ask me.
@@floridmonkey2723 at least they're moderately on beat
What were they thinking! Oh yeah.... they weren't..
The way this thing just drove across the disc hurt my soul
I remember seeing the demo video of this a while back, and I noticed they never showed you the part of the machine that contacts the record, which I thought was quite suspicious. Looks like my instinct was right.
There are easier and cheaper ways to destroy a record. Just.. wow..
"I will not buy zis rrecorrd, iet ies scratched"
"My Hovercraft is full of eels!"
"drop your panties Sir William i cannot wait 'til lunchtime"...
Let's go to my place; bouncie bouncie
good thing i watched this first. Got interested after watching on shark tank. This sounds SO BAD!!!!!
Don't you get it? Shark Tank endorses and finances all the wrong people. This guy is a charlatan and a crook and Shark Tank financed him. A truly brilliant inventor wouldn't get a penny from Shark Tank. Remember Edison ripping off Tesla?
3:53: You don’t need me to chime down how *Awful* it sounds.
Me: _Bopping my head_