8ban - mini playable Vinyl Records from Japan
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- A look at eightban. Collectable, playable mini records from 2004. A deliberately, unashamedly low-fi format.
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Yes the blue tape is Masking Tape not Gaffers Tape. What an amazing gaff - it's probably going to be on a compilation of the most unbelievable mistakes ever made in an improvised youtube voice-over. Perhaps I should start writing scripts and fact checking them, but no... that's not my style....I'm going to keep freestyling straight from the top of the dome, spitting lyrics straight from my bald patch. Sometimes they're right, sometimes they're wrong...but they are always funky fresh. I'm out of here like last year.
"This will be the only time you've seen anyone play a record in a crosley turntable to make it sound better" I choked on my drink over that remark
I thought i was the only one who caught that joke. I was cracking up lmao
i choked on air
Funny thing: Crosley released an 8ban turntable and records, if you don’t believe me you can look it up. Jack white teamed up with Crosley to make it.
@@KingRiverVlogs maybe but the bulk of their consumer grade tables chew up records with an improper stylus and too much pressure experts estimate you can get 10 good plays before a crosley destroys a record
@Aaron Kortas I’m not saying Crosley is good at all, I hate Crosley with a passion. I’ve got the Audio Technica LP120.
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For whatever reason I'm reading this string of replies in Vince's voice, Mighty Boosh fashion
LITTLE MUSIC
Lil muSiS :))))
"First time anyone's ever played a record on a crosley turntable to make it sound better." Cracked me up.
savage
Appropriate :D
It made me spit my drink out as I laughed lol.
Yea, those turntable jokes sure are hot fire and super lit these days ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°)
same here... I had a good laugh with that X3
2004? This seems much more like 1974.
It looks like 80's
that’s what they were going for
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Manny with a brushed steel top, they loved their wood grain and brushed steel combo
@@claudiaalejandrapradinesfa7388 so true
I absolutely love the Idea of getting music in random 'booster packs'
Yeah that’s a cool way to get into new music!
...until you get your 27th copy of The Partridge Family's "Doesn't Somebody Want To Be Wanted".
And you can trad with your friends for those you don't have
@@tiberiu_nicolae exactly!
_"This will be the only time you've ever seen someone play a record in a Crosley turntable to make it sound better!"_ - the BEST statement ever!
Savage
New ad for Crosley: "[P]lay a record in a Crosley turntable to make it sound better!" - Techmoan
DAT BURN
Harsh but fair!
That statement got my Thumbs Up
Judy Collins' song "Both Sides Now" is just on a one-sided record? ☹
They got their hands on the one minute K-tel Records edited version, did they?😈
It would've been perfect if they mixed the A and B side from the single onto one track.
Troy Kirchhoefel , lol!
Damn those cloud illusions!
I did only know Joni Mitchells 'orginal' version.
just took my normal turn table and put it through the ole shrink ray, easy peasy
dude i keep seeing your comments on most random videos i click
You must have the same vast taste in TH-cam videos as me.
likelihood of gucci gang played on 8ban in a few weeks?
what are u doin here
STOP FOLLOWING ME GO AWAY
The ultimate lofi hiphop experience.
Duct-tape solves every problem.
Fancy seeing you here, Jo/Kinna!
don't forget WD-40!
Except this one. That’s not duct
@@staszekz2005he used it on the Crosley to take up space on the spindle…
Oh Japan, please never change.
You are the king of weird stuff.
They probably never will.
They're all about huge contrasts, I find.
And I think that's a really cool societal tone.
They are the Bjork of Asia.
I mean it's not that weird, the small random records are basically blind box toys for adults
Made in China, but Bandai is a Japanese company.
庭わたなべ Apple is an American company, but your iphone was made in China OH MAN IT'S LIKE IT'S CHEAP TO MANUFACTURE IN CHINA OR SOMETHING
Somebody needs to make a new version of this music format. These little records are gorgeous. Great find TM.
Charlotte Dashwood They have! A similar thing came out for Record Store Day yesterday!
Charlotte Dashwood would be neat to see them make these like the portable Crowley’s but the little mini albums are done like half of one side on the front other half on the back and the albums done in like a pack of 2-3 little vinyl records
@@mollygodlewski That would require me to give money to Crossley, and that is not going to happen.
Japan always gets the best (and weird) stuff, I love it.
Gordon Freeman Stfu weeb
Like Atom Bombs
because they nuked twice
Lolicon and yandere? Yeah no. You're absolutely wrong.
Definitely not the best in terms of quality lmao. Fkng weeaboos.
Imagine someone doing an entire DJ set with this.
I think if there is one DJ who would be up to it, it would be Cut Chemist
I got glue on my fingers... There's a playtapus controlling me!
He'd run out of hands.
@@cindydott452 HAHAHA
It would probably be for a very small wedding.
😂😂😂
Wait did you said "The White Stripes"? Does that mean the original mix of Seven Nation Army is available on it?
Most White Stripes singles were pressed in the 3 inch format, including 7 Nation Army.
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I can't believe they made gacha records.
This both came out 30 years too late and 10 year too early.
Still fantastic video.
7:56 - Ben E. King - Stand By Me
8:16 Connie stevens - sixteen reasons.
8:26 Save the last dance for me
8:29 Cascades - Rhythm of the rain
under the boardwalk.
nostalgia attack. I'd love to buy those.
Judy Collins - Both Sides Now
Hi-Fidude66
Joanie Summers - Johnny Get Angry
@@Ray-mw1fx A true music connoisseur ! Thank you Ray !
Gigliola Cinquetti - Non Ho L'eta
And Otis Redding - sittin on the dock of a bay.
Super cool. I'm really surprised that this was made during such a modern time for music formats. 2004? I mean I can understand if this came out in the 70s or something, but this is nuts. Very fascinating to see that they had an itch for vinyl back in those days when it still wasn't very cool to use.
I agree. This product came 30 years too late.
What? Bandai are a toy company, this is nothing more than a toy. It's was not a serious attempt to launch a new format. I would have thought that was obvious..
Considering he unboxed a toy, yes it's obvious that it's not a serious music format, nor was I implying that. Other toy companies released other toy-style formats that were similar to their "adult" counterparts but they were released at times that were at least much closer to the peak-time of the format, if not just shortly after their decline of popularity. It seems unusual and surprising to me that this came out so many years after vinyl declined in popularity, yet so many years before the resurgence.
Very much true. I did understand what you implied.
Marky Shaw Vinyl was still/already a thing in 2004.
I feel like this would do well today. Vinyl has made a comeback and people love collecting little stuff like this.
The Japanese are very quirky. They have a quirky spin on everything from venting machines, fashion, food, tech etc
spin
@@keithbrown7685
Hehehe
Spin, my pretties. Spin.
do you mean a Vending machine?
@tan j maz I wonder if its their lack of brack people?
The pitch control is for when your batteries wear down.
No, its to make for a totally awesome mini vinyl battery powered DJ setup of-course :)
*(imagine 'scratching' on those :P)
...or to compensate for that badly weighted tone-arm!
I remember having the same control on my Voice Of The Mummy board game when I was a kid. I thought it was a volume knob and wondered why the mummy sounded like a chipmunk.
You know, Techmoan, you should invetigate a bit about some 70's dolls that used a small record to play sounds. My mother just told me about that after watching this video. She said she had a doll that had a little plastic box inside and the box had a tiny record that played sound bits for the doll's "momma" sounds and things like that
Before audio chips they use small records to play the noises
Teddy ruxspin did something similar
I saw those records in the backs of the dolls.
Yes, please! I remember those dolls!
Indeed. I think early See n’ Say toys also use a record mechanism.
The music for ‘Captain Ultra’ was written by the legendary Japanese musician, Tomita (one of his early compositions)
"Your do remember fun, don't you?" Had me in stitches great video, what a fun little gizmo!
You're*
Warmed me right up during this chilly winter season with that sick Crosley burn.
Before you flipped it over, i thought it was classic Japanese design from the 60s or 70s 😅
Didn't expect the 2004 date 😮
2004 was
aw man I thought the same thing, but I guess this is a very retro kind of toy so they did a pretty good job lol
Maxx Fordham! v i n y l s
that's not a word. You either say vinyl or records for plural.
Maybe Maxx Fordham is not native English speaker, or you are perhaps not one, I don't know, but all words he listed above I have heard. A well you could take in account that in different countries English is bit different, just look on American and British English. I, it is rebellion of some kind, use British English (well my other browser, not this one I am typing this) as default in my browser, and last week i was getting errors with word "fueled", it does not exist in British English, but is commonly used in American English. So some versions of English might allow vinyls, in fact spellcheck knows this word for both, American and British, it might be that use of this form is just rare in your country, or in English that you have learned in school.
In fact I have met group of Americans (I should say citizens of U.S.A.) few months ago and we had some problems with some words as I learned British English at school, well they had problem as I am used to hear both.
@11:18 "This will be the only time you'll ever see anyone ever play a record in a crosley turntable to make it sound better"
I laughed out loud so hard
Same, I snorted
So true
Priceless comment.
Definitely a toy indeed as Bandai is one of Japan's large toy manufacturers. As always, love your videos. Really great stuff!
This is so cool! It's a shame they didn't take off and they didn't run on mains or additional output. They could of made miniature albums...imagine how many you could collect and not worry about space?!
"This is the only time anyone's ever played a record on a crosley to make it sound better"
Thank you.
These players were the only ones that would fit in their dorm rooms.
maxcohen13 win
You realize how many likes you have on this comment right?
I guess this thing came out ten years too early.
I think if they tried re-introducing it now with some popular artists on board it may actually take off.
I'm investing all my retirement money in this crap, for sure!!
Benedikt itd be neat to have now for sure
8ban format is launching again, this Record Store Day, in the US and Japan. 15 titles are available, and Thirdman records is also involved again. Crosley is as well, with the RSD3 Mini Player. Lots of PR and social media buzz about this one!
Honestly, I would instantly pick up one of these if someone made them again
Good news.
3:27
In this episode, Techmoan communicates with the souls of the damned, a direct line to *Hell* .
Kinda sounds like something you'd hear in one of the Evil Dead movies, doesn't it?
Those colored records are meant to be replicas of Asahi Sonorama discs put out during the 60's and 70's. They were basically plastic flexi-discs from the looks of it. The added pictures/descriptions are actually storybooks that went along with the record sheets. Wikipedia has a good entry on them....
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Asahi_Sonorama
You can still search around. Here's one blog entry on a particular one.
letsanime.blogspot.com/2010/02/flying-phantom-sonorama.html
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Oh my gosh thank you so much for this info!!
For a toy record player it sounds pretty decent. It's probably comparable to the inner area of 16 RPM records.
If it's a 33, and actually stereo, might even be they used some sort of clever shrinking ray on real records. Or something. I bet the sound quality is purely a symptom of a novelty plastic toy record player, and the bit of tape Techmoan didn't quite hack up properly in his Crosley. Probably if you made the effort you'd get at least LP quality out of it. Why not? Putting grooves into vinyl is a mature technology, we've mastered it.
so cute!!!! This obviously must have been a project of love. The cost to produce the records alone would have been astronomical, then to sell them for $2 was pretty crazy.
It isn't. Full size records cost 1-3 dollars to make. The little ones are even cheaper.
Bandai has since merged with Namco. If they still have the tooling laying around and ever want to take another crack at this, they could to do a series of records of tunes from Namco's games. They could mold the Pac-Man one in yellow.
sold my triple inchophone in 2011 for $1100. yeah.
You did well. Now you're going to tell me you spent it all buying bitcoin.
oh, jesus, turns out i was wrong! i checked my ebay history. it was actually US $1.526,00. jesus.
You shameless capitalist you! LOL
I'm wondering what type of person would spend that kind of money like that? Hopefully it was just someone who has plenty anyway. People are crazy. smh
Could work out well
Why must you judge the people who take part in a voluntary transaction? I am always baffled at this.
send one to 8-Bit Keys, he's pretty good at adding line-out to things :P
33 1/3... Hmmm, those should be playable on my record player as I have an tengential arm that has movement reach way into the label.... And it's tangential so no problem with tracking angle being too way off...
... aaand, I have a center hole drill to correct off center records, so I should really be able to play those in nearly the best possible quality... (Scheu Premiere MK2, Airtangent 1b, Sumiko Blackbird LO)
Honestly old chap, it's just a toy, a bit of fun, a gadget...you can get all these songs in other formats. 8ban just is what it is and that's all it is.
Yeah, I know, but I am a bit like you... If I can do it, I WANT to do it... :)
Well good luck, but these old discs are quite hard to find as they were in and out of the shops in Japan in the blink of an eye.
Losing Weight, Ripping Vinyl Yea, and with that cartridge you could pound on the turntable with your fists while they're playing, and it will still track fine and not come through the speakers either. Like I saw in another video (it was actually a fellow AudioKarma member too funny).
I guess it would be cool to show off if you have guests over that are into audio. I'd certainly get a kick out of it. But I'm a total geek. So you can't go by my taste. LOL
Please post a video if you do get this working. And post the link to it here. I would like to see it.
Crosley just released a mini turntable this year during record store day 2019. Mini 3 inch records are out to play on this device.
And of now, Crosley has finally released the Mini Cruiser where you can play 3” records, but it’s quite an improvement than this 8Ban, and it can play 8Ban records from Japan as well, including a 3” record with the theme to “Captain Ultra”, a TV show from Japan.
@@Musicradio77Network oh my god I want it.
I never knew I needed something so badly until I found it.
Fun... I had fun once and it was awful.
Astfgl Fun... Fun never changes.
Astfgl was that in goodbye galaxy?
Asfgtl .... that wasn't fun you were having .... LOL ... never trust a Catholic priest!!
Thats because you didn't have 6:30
Musical styling of the sith lord:
I dreamed a dream
Perfect tool for the 20 feet japanese homes... small and good... :-)
Terrible ear screeching*
I’ve seen little turntables at the checkout line at Barnes and Noble recently.
beleza ies
:O Well, now I know where I'm going to first thing tomorrow morning.
Thanks for the information.
They don't have real records. I've bought one before and it's just annoying, sorry to disappoint. I was pretty disappointed too.
Are you sure you weren't just standing far away?
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TAN TAN YANAIKAI
very cool tintin
A Japanese Tintin? I have seen everything now
This should be called a CVD (Compact Vinyl Disc)
future hipsters already collecting these no doubt
Bill Westfall and most likely just put it on a shelf and never play with it. Hipsters never actually USE the stuff they buy, they just want to look cool (or "kewl") and "retro." Then a few months later try to sell it on eBay for 10 times the price they bought it for.
+ct92404
I think you hang with the wrong kind of hipsters. All hipsters I know with vinyl collecting habits play them regularly.
An East-Coast/West-Coast hipster thing?
well all the hipsters are grown up now..so this would be a nice little addition to the little hipsters on the way.
ct92404
neo retro can't be retro
Nothing interesting on tv theese days so i tune my tv on techmoan channel instead :) i love technology so this channel is the right one for me :)
Nuno Oliveira Ditto. I absolutely despise reality TV.
it looks like a record player for the famicom, the colors match
I notice the Famicom color design. Makes me want one now for the Famicom color look.
Peter Abreu Lol, yeah.
they look really cute
When he said it's from 2004 I thought "ooh that's not so long ago " Then I started to count and realised it's already 14 years old! Time flies by!
This reminds me of "Baseball talk". When I was a kid they had baseball cards with little records on the back. You would put it into the player and it had a sort of narrative about the baseball player. You should see if you could get ahold of one of those and do a video on that!
There must be an end to the supply of oddball audio formats, but you continue to amaze us with unexpected new revelations.
There's one in pink and black on ebay... ebay.to/2CfB8Q0 apparently there was a range. It will be fun to watch the --very few-- ebay auctions on these to see how the "Techmoan effect" works on something this obscure.
Also, this format has it's own facebook fan page bit.ly/2CiKWcd
As i began watching this video, i had a very similar thoguht: Just as you think you've seen it all, along comes another Techmoan video to dispel that notion. ;) It's just such a great, entertaining channel.
I am old.
My 1st thought: “That ’s supposed to be a single‽ It’s turning way too slow for a 45 rpm single! That looks like a 33⅓ rpm record!”
Congrats for using the interrobang mark
@@ጭስዋሪማና I'm not being sarcastic. I rarely see that mark, and it should be used on that occasion
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just me that wants to sample these mini records?
This was definitely ahead of its time. If Bandai had tried this, just a couple of years ago, it probably would be a smash hit especially with hipsters.
I have one of the White Stripes models (and the records). They released one record for this ("Top Special") that, to date, has only ever been released in this format. I ripped the Top Special record to WAV format by using placing the tonearm of a real turntable on top of the Top Special record that was spinning on the 8Ban turntable. (This worked better than you'd expect and I managed to get the angle of the tonearm correct). Yes, it was in Stereo, and yes, the quality is what you'd expect for such a tiny plastic record. Someone else did the same and posted a video to youtube.
chris newpher "someone else" :D
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Pull an 8-Bit Guy and install a line out jack like he does on his keyboards!
What a cute and obscure little bit of tech, I LOVE it when you find and feature stuff like this, it just tickles me. I was kind of hoping you were going to crack it open and jury-rig up some kind of stereo output to speakers, but using the Crosley was a much better solution. (as well as a chance to deliver some classic snark) Thank you!
I saw some of these at my local record store the other day! Apparently a number of offerings were made for a recent Record Store Day. They had a bunch of singles from the Peanuts Christmas album for 5$ a piece.
"This will be the only time you've ever seen anyone play a record on a Crosley turntable to make it sound better" 😂
Its a very cute little thing.
I believe they call this "Kawaii." There's a whole culture around it.
That's what *she* said?
I'm talking about a "friend".
Fletcher DeMaine yeah like their porn
duckangelfan perv
Fletcher DeMaine the Emo Generation loves that crap.
Can you find us the largest record player now?
The Auxetophone was a non-electric amplified turntable. Used a special little gate, vibrated by the needle. That allowed varying amounts of compressed air through, causing an utter bleeding racket that couldn't really be turned up or down. Clever though that they could make an entirely mechanical amplifier. I think there was a microphone option that used the same principle.
Actually it was electric in that the air compressor had an electric motor. Only electrical part though. Except maybe the off switch.
Get Conan or some Orcs to spin a windlass hamster wheel to run a compressor and you'd have a completely medieval amplified sound system.
Of course you'd need to cut the records first. But you could probably do that by getting barbarians to scream down a cone with a needle on the end. If you haven't got vinyl, use bronze.
Plastics come included with Alchemy.
I moan when I see this kind of tech.
Que Onda Canal This particular one was made for children.
@@nobdydoh4263 i doubt it with the kind of music that was available.
@@baronvonlimbourgh1716 Bandai is a toy company. This was originally realeased in early 1970s. 8ban is more popular with adult collectors now via nostalgia (hence some of the music; those particular discs were not available until the late 1990s) but this does not change the original target demographic.
@@nobdydoh4263 thi
S was released in 2004..
@@baronvonlimbourgh1716 Yes but the original released in 1970s did not include these same records. This is about nostalgia and adult collectors.
I don't even own a regular record player. What am I doing here?
10:50 - 11:16
is it just me, or did that Crosley needle burn out the groove?
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now this company make only plastic model, goodies stuff, & some life action tokusatsu, now this company rename as "Bandai Namco" as Bandai bought & joint the game maker "Namco"
Bandai are HUGE compared to Namco, so I can see why they wouldn't bother renaming the whole company, just their now-subsidiary.
I remember my sisters dolls. There was a record-like plastic disc which you could change and make the doll sound different.
11:17 - A thousand audiophiles just punched the air.
This thing is practically begging to modded. Shouldn't be that hard to add an AC adapter and a 3.5 output. Wonder if it would play stereo then.
You'd need a stereo needle.
So many comments about "hipsters" no doubt there is a crowd like that. But can you be a young person with an appreciation for anything unique, unusual, retro and not be called hipster? Bit unfair id say, It seems like it would be pretty universal to find something like this cool.
It reminds me of the Juniorfon. This was a little battery powered toy grammophone manufactured in the GDR. The records were of similar size.
Techmoan roasting crossley.
A 7 inch vinyl couldnt hold me back.
You're a sharp one.
I don't get it.
Listen to "Seven Nation Army" by the White Stripes.
If you can, I'd love to hear some of these on a nice hi-fi setup just to see how good the vinyl itself if.
He said a normal turntable wouldn't play it cos the arm wouldn't go far enough into the centre of the record
Would be crap.
Imagine having lil vaporwave vinyls 😍
"You remember fun, don't you?"
Damn, Techmoan... My life, I just reconsidered it...
I am thinking you could easily wire the speaker to a line out on that little record player.
For some reason this made me think of these maybe 6" records that came as a bonus with something (cereal? Comics? Magazines?). They were paper thin and had to be removed from the sheet containing it (like a cutout). They played on regular machines. Any idea what I'm talking about?
Ian Colquhoun maybe Flexi discs?
Yes, that's a thing. Here's the wikipedia link: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cardboard_record.
They were common in the 60's. Flexible vinyl bound into magazines and advertisements, the diameter of a 45, but with a small spindle hole.
Yeha I had some of them - they used to come free with some music mag I bought every week or month. I remember one was by squeeze in green vinyl, and another was edwin starr on red vinyl. they sounded awful lol, and they wore out real quick, but they were free :)
Yes, i remember vaguely those cardboard records, i seem to recall that they had a thin layer of transparent plastic on the side with the groove, such that the groove was embedded in the plastic.
"This is the only time you'll see someone play a record in a Crosby Turntable to make it sound *better*"
Priceless.
Crosley
Love this video,small records are not exactly new to me as my sister in the early nineteen fifties had a rather large doll for xmas that had a record player inside it's back that would automatically play when she was tilted up and down with a various tracks on causing her to speak, mama for example being one.
I love when he MacGyvers that stuff up to make it work.......
How do I scratch with it⁉️😉
Not My Real Account Account Not In Use With your pinky!
Use a corner!
Shove it down your trousers I guess, oh, you meant "vinyl scratching", er, never mind.... :P
very carefully
Crosley makes "toy record players" and I'd rather have one of these and it sounds as horrible as a Crosley turntable.
And to get the last laugh - Crosley improves on the format and releases the RSD3 in 2019 with a line out, and an AT MM cartridge.
And now the Mini Cruiser and many more record releases.
I just googled it and your review came up! Haha
The card gives you Ben E. King’s stats 😳
Pretty neat actually. I wonder if the devil hands these out to audiophiles that got sent to hell?
I'd love to see a Crosley with a proper needle/stylus on it, that'd make them actually useful!
the rest is shit too, you'll have to replace the tonearm, the cartridge, the internal electronics or bypass it and send the signal to a phono preamp... it's not worth it.
+Pelger Was about to say that. Might as well buy another turntable
Timo no no and no.
That wouldnt help them any
!!!!# WHAT ABOUT A LINE OUT MOD VIDEO - then we could hear the bass on stand by me and tell something about the quality on the record
Or the quality of the needle and cartridge at least, which is probably "awful". I'd like to hear our man do a better job of playing them on a proper record player just to see how good they are though.
In addition, this Bandai 8Ban can also play Philco/Ford Hip-Pocket 45 RPM records from 1967 through 1969.
Crosley has "revived" the 3" record with their RSD3.It has a magnetic cartridge and audio out so it can be played thru a regular system.The TT has a speaker builtt into it.It runs from batteries-like the TT shown or a USB.
@techmoan: can you give me the exact inner diameter of an 8ban disc and the exact outer diameter of the spindle from this ugly green player you used?
Maxx Fordham! You are confusing inside diameter with outside diameter. He wanted the diameter of the hole in the record. It looks similar to the size of the center hole of a CD.
Interesting ... but
Why you didn't open the player?
I love when you show how a machine works inside.
Maxx Fordham!
Thanks.
I have corrected the text.
AHHHH! You killed me by destroying those stickers!
Why does albums vinyl records sound like that a horror soundtrack album hissing and slow mode like chopped and screwed?
Super cheap stylus playing against a super cheap record (not to mention the size). Diamond stylus on good record sounds as good as digital.
I love Bandai (they’re mostly known in my household for Tamagotchi, the lcd virtual pet), leave it to them to make the kitschiest little music player ever. Would’ve KILLED to get an 8ban and The White Stripes when I was a kid had I known it existed!
You can play that small record on a Technics 1200 because it's a manual turntable.
If the tracking error is the same as Crosley at 11:00 mark you can re-align the cartridge because the holes of the headshell are elongated which means you can twist the cartridge. But it's much better to buy a spare headshell for that rather than re-aligning it back when playing conventional records.
Anyone got a 3D printer? Might be able to knock up an adaptor, and one for the record's centre hole while you're at it.
But it's not the hole, it's the angle of the cartridge which is not straight. I think conical stylus solves the problem because conical is not sensitive to alignment.