Ready for Concepts have recast the turntable as a minimal aluminium altar for vinyl worship

Aluminium continues its present run as favoured materials for high-quality and aware audiophile motion. That is the PP-1 turntable, designed by the Paris-based studio Ready for Concepts. Arrange by Jean-Baptiste Anotin in 2021, the inventive studio has labored throughout a wide range of disciplines, together with retail area tasks for the likes of Lacoste, Reebok and Shinzo, and artist collaborations with Iris Marchand, Mathilde Hiley and Pierre Vaillant. Anotin’s transient for each new challenge is to ‘craft a brand new story.’

The PP-1 turntable is carved from a stable sq. of aluminium, a monolithic chunk of metallic into which the platter is countersunk. Because of this, any disc you spin on the PP-1 seems flush with the floor. Ready for Concepts has emphasised this sense of a stable, structural lump by designing a pair of accompanying audio system.

The audio system have an similar footprint to the file participant, permitting them to be stacked like a totem pole with the disc on high, or separated for extra standard stereo sound. Totally wrapped in black cloth, they provide a darkish counterpoint to the uncooked aluminium of the turntable.

The PP-1 is a symphony of exact alignments, with controls and outputs pared again to the naked minimal. For Anotin, the concept was to emphasize the ritual nature of file taking part in, eradicating the disc from its sleeve, fastidiously putting it atop the participant and switching it on.

The eagle eyed can have seen that the PP-1 lacks a standard tone arm. As an alternative, the needle is ready beneath the platter, protected by a canopy that opens when a file is positioned on the platter. This implies you have to place the disc down face up, i.e. the aspect you don’t need to play.

By taking away the small act of placing the needle on the file, the PP-1 takes vinyl again to its uncooked essence, described by the studio as ‘an object for many who don’t simply need to hear—however to really feel the music.’ This hid mechanism can also be able to detecting whether or not it’s a 33 or 45 (though whether or not it does this by the dimensions of the vinyl or the precise grooves is unclear).

All in all, Ready for Concepts has managed to take probably the most minimal type of analogue music and distil it even additional, decreasing vinyl to its important essence as a bodily object that’s positioned on a pedestal to worship.

Extra info on the PP-1 will be discovered at waiting-for-ideas.com, @ready.for.concepts