For those who love their iPads but miss the warm, muted sounds of a 78rpm phonograph, feast your eyes on the iVictrola iPad dock. A successor to the iVictrola iPhone dock a few years ago, this acoustic amplifier uses the speaker outputs of your iPad and an antique Magnavox phonograph radio horn to playback anything from Bix Beiderbecke to Lady Gaga – no electricity required.
The wooden dock couples the iPad to the horn and acts as a megaphone, amplifying sound the old fashioned way. Simple and elegant. But reverting to the acoustic glories of your grandparents won’t come cheap: limited quantites are supposed to be released for $985 this November from Design Within Reach.
Does that also come with an app for introducing pops and scratches into the playback?
[UPDATE: several people have contacted me to point out that this is actually an old radio horn, not from a phonograph.]
[via Ubergizmo]
Adam Rosen is an Apple certified IT consultant specializing in Macintosh systems new and old. He lives in Boston with two cats and too many possessions. In addition to membership in the Cult of Mac, Adam has written for Low End Mac and is curator of the Vintage Mac Museum. He also enjoys a good libation.
