The basket in question? A replaceable cartridge and needle of well-known make and good quality, as well as a sound, solid overall construction bound to absorb any vibrations from where the record player sits comfortably, say, in or on an IKEA furniture solution.Help Wanted: Service Technician Career opportunity with a relaxed, slow growing, long established audio company. We wanted to make it simple, mechanical – so we looked into what gives the best sound, and we put all our eggs in that basket.” “In the previous project, we tried giving a specific design to all parts, but with OBEGRÄNSAD, we tried to limit the molds. The notion of keeping it simple echoed in the technical development as well. Carmen and the technical team really did some major work in making it all happen.” An affordable record player for the manyīringing past learnings into the new project, Carmen coordinated between different functions and expertise at IKEA to get everything in place for the record player to become a reality. There are so many things happening inside the product without you noticing as a customer.

“The engine of it all, having a pre-amplifier built in, getting enough juice from just a simple USB cable to run everything.

It’s actually even more complicated to develop”, says Friso. “There’s nothing simple about designing something that looks very simple. A bold yet simple design to the eye, bringing the principles of Democratic Design to the development of a record player was nonetheless a challenge.

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