Thought something was up because I saw the “Buy It” button spinning for yesterday’s knife before the product changed. Thought maybe it was a FUKO but it only turned out to be this crap.
@cengland0 I killed a bottle of wine last night on an empty stomach while video chatting with friends. Believe me when I tell you the last thing I want to see this morning is spinning stuff.
Damned clever spinning buy button, but EESH, it’s making me dizzy.
@rileyper Ha! yeah, yeah ya did! Great minds, and all that! (I did happen to buy this last time it came up. And this winter, I’m going to recover the fold-out speakers on this dual cassette am/fm receiver I picked up for basically free! This way to coolsville! http://imgur.com/a/8E267 )
Time for some “Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch” or will there be a “Function at the Junction”? I don’t know, the Temptations are too great! Just to mention a few. Grandma will be jammin!
Bought two last time, gifted one, and then mine broke.
Sent it off to the company and totally forgot about it, ended up buying a new one (That’s nice, $200, won’t ruin records)
Ended up getting a random package, turns out they upgraded me to the more expensive model. Going to gift or sale I guess.
But my review:
It works, speakers aren’t that good, but it would be great for cheap/older records, but it WILL ruin your nice records. If you’re actually interested in getting into this I suggest this. Sorry meh, I hope you sell a million of these!!
Ninja edit. It won’t ruin them unless you use it as a full time player, it’d still really good if you want to take it to the park or something with nicer records.
I don’t need this… I don’t have use for this (got rid of my vinyl decades ago)… But the spinning buttons make me want to buy it… Because it is a novelty or to make it stop… Who knows?
I bought one in June and it worked for two hours. Those two hours were fun. The turntable quit spinning and the battery wouldn’t charge. It took several weeks to get a response from ION. They win the WORST customer service award - ever! I received the replacement last week. I got two hours of play in the 90 day warranty window.
The cover is NOT removable?? Oh the horror if it should happen to fall over and ruin my RARE autographed LP of the incomparable Herbert B. Khaury!! I’m shivering in fright at the very thought of it!
If you plan on playing your records repeatedly, don’t do it on a $35 Ion turntable. A decent entry level turntable is about $300. If Meh can offer one of those for south of $150, then we’re talking.
I’m not gonna say absolute crap, but pretty damned close. The speakers are pretty bad; tinny and just don’t have a full sound, kind of like a cheap boom box from the 80’s. However, the biggest gripe from my couple of minutes listening to Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band on this lowly thing ION calls a turntable is that it couldn’t keep a steady 33RPM. You could hear the wobble quite distinctly and it would speed up and slow down over time.
Definitely would not buy unless you’re trying to satisfy some teenaged wannabe hipster with that awesome present from her middle-aged crazy uncle who still sports a pony tail.
And yeah… I’d only let flea market records near this thing.
In 1957 I was in Germany in the 8th grade. My folks gave me a battery powered 45 RPM portable record player. I used it a lot through the years, but it took 3 expensive batteries, so I quit using it. I still have the player but no batteries. What I’m getting at is this new unit I just purchased will take it’s place. Nice. Darwin.
I returned two new iPhone 6 because they wanted to convert my music from MP3 to some proprietary chain me to their system format that requires only their bloatware, iTunes to play. Ewwww. I ported my numbers back to Verizon and we are happily using our Lumia 735s that use actual SD cards of 128GB magnitude and can be swapped out! Windows 10 mobile is pretty awesome actually, despite the waning market share and Microsoft’s attempt to pretend they did not come with their phone to the party.
So iPhones are MEH! and Windows phones are Muah!
SI the mp3s have been saved from conversion to heathen format, and in that spirit I felt like celebrating my mp3s, ripped from our 4000 collections and greatest hit CDs we used mobile DJing.
Then it hit me, I still had three large cartons of my own vinyl which are stored vertically with no cellophane and cleaned with a DiscWasher before sealing them up like a time capsule from another age. In that age I tooke every new record and played them just once to record them to dbx noise reduction cassette tapes with a high end Nakamichi Dragon deck. Then I stored the vinyl and played the tapes, only having to re-record broken tape once or twice.
This all occurred in the last week. And then today I open Meh and there it is. I can finish my ripping all my music now. I even have an album by “The Platters” on 78 rpm platters, along with several other rock and roll/soul on 78s.
I stared at the spinning order and pictures and realized I had programmed myself to remember to rip my albums almost all 33and a third speed full albums when I next saw a rotating hypnotic vinyl record player. I believe that the 78s are made of something other than vinyl.
I sold my last turntable, a Pioneer PL55DX long ago when I was buying CDs to replace my tapes which were recorded from my albums just once to DJ with instant cueing which tapes would not do. Thus I have been able to resist playing them. I avoided all the “cheap” players because they would wear them out prematurely if I played them more than once. But my master plan is to play them for the second time, this time “recording” them in binary digits we call by the nickname BITs today, and since I will be playing them only once more, then returning them to their cardboard sarcophagi, wrapped in their perfect original covers, and such that my progeny may open them one day and think they are going to be scratched and make snap crackle and pops, from a stray neuron that just played a rice crispies commercial. http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=snap+crackel+pop&&view=detail&mid=6F1FE2B2B07016279C9E6F1FE2B2B07016279C9E&rvsmid=466F76A3FF1CD658A64E466F76A3FF1CD658A64E&fsscr=-990&FORM=VDFSRV
Aha I shouted to no one in particular. This turntable for one playing will be perfect and then sit in the closet in a plastic dustcover next to my Ion “Discover DJ” system that could actually be used to DJ with if I wanted to buy big amps and speakers again.
Then my great great grandchildren will be able to sell my perfect Beatles and other albums and covers and Lennon picture 45s of Imagine, among other picture 45s. But only after they played some of them for their third time, despite having all the digital bits of my life.
Meh, you have motivated me to open the sarcophagi, once more. It will take several hundred hours to rip in real time. Ah but many were replaced by CDs already starting in 1983.
Oh I forgot, it has a battery too, so I will have to spend a few days charging and then draining it down to condition the batteries and jumping right in to recording can accomplish that easily. Also I will have a player for the rare really cherry antique record that occasionally show up at the Estate sales my wife runs. I may get into the collector’s vinyl biz.
I would not think that the battery/ies will last more than a few years unused. We will see. I bet it will sound great connected to a Bose Wave system or Soundlink mini which we have already. I believe the headphone out and a 3.5 male to male cable will connect it fine. And playing music from my phone is bound to sound better on its stereo slightly larger speakers than my phone has. But I use the Bose mini Bluetooth speakers for that.
Awesome! Sound is loud and not bad for a tiny expected toy. But nooooo, it had to shock me with its quality and utility. MY phone cartridges for my Pioneer PL55 DX turntable and discrete amps/tuners/dbx cassette decks and 901s.
I had 1500 or so vinyl albums back in the 60s/70s/80s, and started to switch to CDs in 1983. We also started mobile DJing for the next 20 years until 2003 too. 3000 CDs and mostly collections and “best of” or “greatest hits” albums. I kept only 300 or so of my vinyl albums and they had only been played once to record to dbx nr cassettes and stored upright with the outer cellophane removed which shrink and warp the records over time. I just pulled them out of the closet for the first time in 30 years!
MY wife started an estate sale company years ago and I get to pick first so have indulged in a bit of collecting 45s with picture covers, and 78s. I was surprised that lots of the music I heard as a kid was on 78s like The Platters, the group not the media. Bill Haley and the Comets, etc.
I connected my Bose Soundlink Mini to bring out more bass and it sounds fantastic! I am very happy with it. I have already done two days of conditioning the battery by charging overnight first, then playing until it stops and charging for three days. Tomorrow is the last day, and the battery should give a long life if used every few weeks or so.
I know I have a Discwasher stored in a box somewhere and cannot find it! I swore by it for years.
I can afford to buy each album today, but there is something about the equalization of vinyl that provides a warmth that CDs finally got right on some remasters.
Mine came in broken. Auto Stop doesn’t work. Platter won’t spin unless auto stop is off. With Auto Stop on - nada. Lift the tonearm and bring to record… nothing. Spoke to ION. They said definitely broken - send it back and they’d send a new one. Cost more in shipping back then it’s worth… Oh well.
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1x Vinyl Motion turntable
1x USB A to USB B power cable
1x Felt slipmat
1x 45 RPM adapter
1x Vinyl Conversion software CD
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Untz Untz Untz. Spin 'em boys!
Spin on things tonight…record sales predicted …well not record but if you have records buy this deal…
It spiiiiins!
@ELUNO
Spinning buttons freaking me out!
/giphy spinning buttons
Ha, love the spinning “Buy It.”
Thought something was up because I saw the “Buy It” button spinning for yesterday’s knife before the product changed. Thought maybe it was a FUKO but it only turned out to be this crap.
@cengland0 crap is spot on.
@cengland0 I killed a bottle of wine last night on an empty stomach while video chatting with friends. Believe me when I tell you the last thing I want to see this morning is spinning stuff.
Damned clever spinning buy button, but EESH, it’s making me dizzy.
Repetition is also vital to music. Especially pop music.
@awk Repetition is also vital to music. Especially pop music.
@awk
Repetition is also vital to music. Especially pop music.
@yakkoTDI
Repetition is also vital to music. Especially pop music.
˙ɔısnɯ dod ʎʃʃɐıɔǝdsƎ ˙ɔısnɯ oʇ ʃɐʇıʌ osʃɐ sı uoıʇıʇǝdǝᴚ
@awk who likes music that’s repetitious? Sensitive new age guys.
@awk who likes music that’s repetitious? Sensitive new age guys.
Man, if I actually had any vinyl left, I’d totally buy this JUST FOR THE SPINNING BUTTONS ALONE.
/giphy vinyl isn’t dead, yet
@haydesigner I don’t have any vinyl left, but because of the spinning buttons I bought it anyway. I think maybe I was hypnotized.
After a few too many today, I feel like the purchase button reallyh gets me.;
@rileyper, nope… THIS one:
@haydesigner Or this one
@rileyper, sorry completely not a Marilyn Manson fan.
@haydesigner Here’s dead or alive again lol
Wew!
@wew HA Beat you to it.
@rileyper Ha! yeah, yeah ya did!
Great minds, and all that! (I did happen to buy this last time it came up. And this winter, I’m going to recover the fold-out speakers on this dual cassette am/fm receiver I picked up for basically free! This way to coolsville! http://imgur.com/a/8E267 )
That spinning “Buy” button is seriously screwing with your back end.
Something I’ve never said about a meh item, “I actually need it.”
That wigged me out. awesome!
Holy fuck, make me think there’s another fuko, why don’t you. Assholes.
@joelmw it caught me off guard too haha
@joelmw Me too!
Ah, so this has come around again.
Meh, one of the last 2 of these I bought won’t connect to a pc, and Ions customer service is CRAP.
much better
I will repeat, 33, 45, or 78 times…do…not…want.
@eeterrific what, no 16 1/2?
Meh had better be selling a keyboard tomorrow since I just got motion sickness.
@gyozilla
Any one connect one of these up to their A/V receiver?
You Spin Me Round
absolutely, completely, entirely useless for margaritas.
@alacrity Nobody has ever been wronger. https://www.discogs.com/Jimmy-Buffett-Margaritaville/release/4224683
@hubbird sure they have. Your dad- when he said “I’ll pull out in rime, no problem.”
@hubbird ok, that was uncalled for and undeserved… my bad.
I should get one of these, but I don’t want confirmation that my albums in a box in the the garage are ruined.
They might still be playable!
I can keep thinking that as long as I don’t have a player .
@mamawoot I mean, you play them on this thing and they will be ruined.
I mean, not with the first play, but that thing is going to wear through them like a knife in butter.
No counterweight. Worth $0.
Time for some “Sugar Pie, Honey Bunch” or will there be a “Function at the Junction”? I don’t know, the Temptations are too great! Just to mention a few. Grandma will be jammin!
I wish this one was available when I bought mine from meh a while back.
I have the wooden open one, a suitcase style would be much better.
I’ve been drinking and you’re making me dizzy, dammit!
Bought two last time, gifted one, and then mine broke.
Sent it off to the company and totally forgot about it, ended up buying a new one (That’s nice, $200, won’t ruin records)
Ended up getting a random package, turns out they upgraded me to the more expensive model. Going to gift or sale I guess.
But my review:
It works, speakers aren’t that good, but it would be great for cheap/older records, but it WILL ruin your nice records. If you’re actually interested in getting into this I suggest this. Sorry meh, I hope you sell a million of these!!
Ninja edit. It won’t ruin them unless you use it as a full time player, it’d still really good if you want to take it to the park or something with nicer records.
Unexpected PWEI reference! Can you dig it? Caaan youuu diiig iiit?!
For repetition, may I present Jud Jud? You already know most of the lyrics! https://judjud.bandcamp.com/
@atannir
Cicciolina for Italia!
For Mr. Wray…
I hear this plays CD’s also.
You just need to order the optional CD-cartridge & spin it really really fast.
For those that have the late night spins, puke downwind and do not let the dog eat it.
@Woody1 But then I would let a perfectly good sausage pizza go to waste.
You forgot to mention Stop Stop Stop by the Hollies. That was not a minor hit by any standard. It’s on Youtube.
I don’t need this… I don’t have use for this (got rid of my vinyl decades ago)… But the spinning buttons make me want to buy it… Because it is a novelty or to make it stop… Who knows?
But it connects to one of those 3.5mm headphone jacks which are now obsolete because courage.
I immediately thought this was a fuko and I was an hour late…
Oh Gawd, I’m gonna…
BLAAARRRRGGHHHHH!!!
/giphy Noap.
Another brilliant playlist marred only by the absence of this classic. How could you have omitted it???
I bought one in June and it worked for two hours. Those two hours were fun. The turntable quit spinning and the battery wouldn’t charge. It took several weeks to get a response from ION. They win the WORST customer service award - ever! I received the replacement last week. I got two hours of play in the 90 day warranty window.
I can visualize the little curl of vinyl peeling up in front of the needle …
Nope
The cover is NOT removable?? Oh the horror if it should happen to fall over and ruin my RARE autographed LP of the incomparable Herbert B. Khaury!! I’m shivering in fright at the very thought of it!
@IndifferentDude : Nice TT reference.
@widijaz Glad someone knew who he was (or at least Googled him!)
If you plan on playing your records repeatedly, don’t do it on a $35 Ion turntable. A decent entry level turntable is about $300. If Meh can offer one of those for south of $150, then we’re talking.
Here are some alternatives from my research.
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00CORRXTS/ref=twister_B00CWUZP6A?_encoding=UTF8&psc=1
https://www.amazon.com/Jensen-JTA-230-Stereo-Turntable-Speakers/dp/B00BCA4116/ref=sr_1_2?s=aht&ie=UTF8&qid=1473602043&sr=1-2&keywords=turntable
https://www.amazon.com/Boytone-BT-27G-C-Bluetooth-connection-Turntable/dp/B01GXX3DJ2/ref=sr_1_19?s=aht&ie=UTF8&qid=1473602043&sr=1-19&keywords=turntable
I’m not gonna say absolute crap, but pretty damned close. The speakers are pretty bad; tinny and just don’t have a full sound, kind of like a cheap boom box from the 80’s. However, the biggest gripe from my couple of minutes listening to Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band on this lowly thing ION calls a turntable is that it couldn’t keep a steady 33RPM. You could hear the wobble quite distinctly and it would speed up and slow down over time.
Definitely would not buy unless you’re trying to satisfy some teenaged wannabe hipster with that awesome present from her middle-aged crazy uncle who still sports a pony tail.
And yeah… I’d only let flea market records near this thing.
I feel like I’m taking meh pills!
In 1957 I was in Germany in the 8th grade. My folks gave me a battery powered 45 RPM portable record player. I used it a lot through the years, but it took 3 expensive batteries, so I quit using it. I still have the player but no batteries. What I’m getting at is this new unit I just purchased will take it’s place. Nice. Darwin.
I returned two new iPhone 6 because they wanted to convert my music from MP3 to some proprietary chain me to their system format that requires only their bloatware, iTunes to play. Ewwww. I ported my numbers back to Verizon and we are happily using our Lumia 735s that use actual SD cards of 128GB magnitude and can be swapped out! Windows 10 mobile is pretty awesome actually, despite the waning market share and Microsoft’s attempt to pretend they did not come with their phone to the party.
So iPhones are MEH! and Windows phones are Muah!
SI the mp3s have been saved from conversion to heathen format, and in that spirit I felt like celebrating my mp3s, ripped from our 4000 collections and greatest hit CDs we used mobile DJing.
Then it hit me, I still had three large cartons of my own vinyl which are stored vertically with no cellophane and cleaned with a DiscWasher before sealing them up like a time capsule from another age. In that age I tooke every new record and played them just once to record them to dbx noise reduction cassette tapes with a high end Nakamichi Dragon deck. Then I stored the vinyl and played the tapes, only having to re-record broken tape once or twice.
This all occurred in the last week. And then today I open Meh and there it is. I can finish my ripping all my music now. I even have an album by “The Platters” on 78 rpm platters, along with several other rock and roll/soul on 78s.
I stared at the spinning order and pictures and realized I had programmed myself to remember to rip my albums almost all 33and a third speed full albums when I next saw a rotating hypnotic vinyl record player. I believe that the 78s are made of something other than vinyl.
I sold my last turntable, a Pioneer PL55DX long ago when I was buying CDs to replace my tapes which were recorded from my albums just once to DJ with instant cueing which tapes would not do. Thus I have been able to resist playing them. I avoided all the “cheap” players because they would wear them out prematurely if I played them more than once. But my master plan is to play them for the second time, this time “recording” them in binary digits we call by the nickname BITs today, and since I will be playing them only once more, then returning them to their cardboard sarcophagi, wrapped in their perfect original covers, and such that my progeny may open them one day and think they are going to be scratched and make snap crackle and pops, from a stray neuron that just played a rice crispies commercial. http://www.bing.com/videos/search?q=snap+crackel+pop&&view=detail&mid=6F1FE2B2B07016279C9E6F1FE2B2B07016279C9E&rvsmid=466F76A3FF1CD658A64E466F76A3FF1CD658A64E&fsscr=-990&FORM=VDFSRV
Aha I shouted to no one in particular. This turntable for one playing will be perfect and then sit in the closet in a plastic dustcover next to my Ion “Discover DJ” system that could actually be used to DJ with if I wanted to buy big amps and speakers again.
Then my great great grandchildren will be able to sell my perfect Beatles and other albums and covers and Lennon picture 45s of Imagine, among other picture 45s. But only after they played some of them for their third time, despite having all the digital bits of my life.
Meh, you have motivated me to open the sarcophagi, once more. It will take several hundred hours to rip in real time. Ah but many were replaced by CDs already starting in 1983.
Oh I forgot, it has a battery too, so I will have to spend a few days charging and then draining it down to condition the batteries and jumping right in to recording can accomplish that easily. Also I will have a player for the rare really cherry antique record that occasionally show up at the Estate sales my wife runs. I may get into the collector’s vinyl biz.
I would not think that the battery/ies will last more than a few years unused. We will see. I bet it will sound great connected to a Bose Wave system or Soundlink mini which we have already. I believe the headphone out and a 3.5 male to male cable will connect it fine. And playing music from my phone is bound to sound better on its stereo slightly larger speakers than my phone has. But I use the Bose mini Bluetooth speakers for that.
Wait a minute, are those two buttons spinning at 33 1/3 and 45 rpms? Duuuude.
@Philosyphilis Just like last time this was offered.
The last time I remember actually playing playing a record was pre 1989. I believe it came with a story book.
Which is more obsolete. A device that plays vinyl records or computer software delivered on compact disc?
Ooooh dat buy button. It’s mehzmerizing.
As a vinyl enthusiast I shouldn’t really like this Ion
Vinyl Motion
portable turntable, but you know what… it has a headphone jack.
In for 4 in purple and of course I got VMP… it is the shipping method with warm and fuzzy harmonic distortion.
I tried purchasing this and I keep getting “billing address failed verification”. I can assure you I input it correctly, what gives?
@shadaxv90 try flipping the apartment number and the street address…
so if it is normally
make it
If that fails drop support a line here:
https://meh.com/support
please don’t suck
please don’t suck
please don’t suck
Well now it’s selling today’s item. How do I get the turnstile now?
Nvm. Contacting support.
Awesome player! The speakers don’t suck! It actually does what it says! It’s handsome! I LOVE MEH!!!
meh…Glenn miller sounds like Alvin and the chipmunks…support!
Awesome! Sound is loud and not bad for a tiny expected toy. But nooooo, it had to shock me with its quality and utility. MY phone cartridges for my Pioneer PL55 DX turntable and discrete amps/tuners/dbx cassette decks and 901s.
I had 1500 or so vinyl albums back in the 60s/70s/80s, and started to switch to CDs in 1983. We also started mobile DJing for the next 20 years until 2003 too. 3000 CDs and mostly collections and “best of” or “greatest hits” albums. I kept only 300 or so of my vinyl albums and they had only been played once to record to dbx nr cassettes and stored upright with the outer cellophane removed which shrink and warp the records over time. I just pulled them out of the closet for the first time in 30 years!
MY wife started an estate sale company years ago and I get to pick first so have indulged in a bit of collecting 45s with picture covers, and 78s. I was surprised that lots of the music I heard as a kid was on 78s like The Platters, the group not the media. Bill Haley and the Comets, etc.
I connected my Bose Soundlink Mini to bring out more bass and it sounds fantastic! I am very happy with it. I have already done two days of conditioning the battery by charging overnight first, then playing until it stops and charging for three days. Tomorrow is the last day, and the battery should give a long life if used every few weeks or so.
I know I have a Discwasher stored in a box somewhere and cannot find it! I swore by it for years.
I can afford to buy each album today, but there is something about the equalization of vinyl that provides a warmth that CDs finally got right on some remasters.
Here is how I use it:
Mine came in broken. Auto Stop doesn’t work. Platter won’t spin unless auto stop is off. With Auto Stop on - nada. Lift the tonearm and bring to record… nothing. Spoke to ION. They said definitely broken - send it back and they’d send a new one. Cost more in shipping back then it’s worth… Oh well.
Haven’t acutely used it yet… But I did just pull this nifty little card out of an album