This CD Playing Turntable Pairs Analog Aesthetics With Digital Fidelity
All about nostalgia and a love for the tactile, Jaehyung Chu's Red Dot Award winning Vivia is a "turntable" for compact discs.
Korean designer Jaehyung Chu believes vinyl’s resurgence isn’t one merely attributed to an aesthetic, but also representative of a generational trend toward reconnecting the divide between music and listener, a connection absent while using streaming audio services. The designer notes that while the vinyl revival does satiate this desire for tactile ownership, albums are being sold at increasingly prohibitive prices. Chu designed the Vivia in response, an audio component fashioned after the turntable, but engineered with the function of a CD player.
Vivia borrows openly from the tone arm design of a traditional turntable, with a platter, base, and tone arm presenting a convincing job of a modernized record player. Except for the Vivia’s small platter size, it would be easy to assume its purpose is for listening to 7-inch 45 RPM releases. A closer inspection reveals the tone arm houses a sensor rather than a needle, one assigned not for playback like a traditional turntable, but assigned to calculate the overall running time of the CD.
The compact disc is read like a traditional player using a laser positioned underneath, with the “tone arm” moving slowly from the outside to the center of the CD like a turntable to track playback time (if you need a primer about how compact discs work, this simple vi...
Korean designer Jaehyung Chu believes vinyl’s resurgence isn’t one merely attributed to an aesthetic, but also representative of a generational trend toward reconnecting the divide between music and listener, a connection absent while using streaming audio services. The designer notes that while the vinyl revival does satiate this desire for tactile ownership, albums are being sold at increasingly prohibitive prices. Chu designed the Vivia in response, an audio component fashioned after the turntable, but engineered with the function of a CD player.
Vivia borrows openly from the tone arm design of a traditional turntable, with a platter, base, and tone arm presenting a convincing job of a modernized record player. Except for the Vivia’s small platter size, it would be easy to assume its purpose is for listening to 7-inch 45 RPM releases. A closer inspection reveals the tone arm houses a sensor rather than a needle, one assigned not for playback like a traditional turntable, but assigned to calculate the overall running time of the CD.
The compact disc is read like a traditional player using a laser positioned underneath, with the “tone arm” moving slowly from the outside to the center of the CD like a turntable to track playback time (if you need a primer about how compact discs work, this simple vi...
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