Another cool transistor record player

Earlier this week I posted a link to photos of Pete Verrando's Commodore micro turntable. Here's another micro turntable. This one was made in Italy and looks even nicer. The owner, Johannes Roussel, described it to James Graham of Retro Thing:

"I own a record player that is very similar but made in Italy by a company named Mo-El in Milano. Mine can play 45 and 33.

It has the same kind of small wheel that drives the record from below. It has no amplifier but instead includes an AM transmitter that works in the 250 to 300 m range. You have to put a radio next to the record player in order to play the music.

See more photos of this nice-looking record player at Retro Thing.

• [MayorMike]

  Hi Mark, Here’s my little transistor phonograph. I’m taking it and a box of 45′s ice fishing today.

  http://www.flickr.com/photos/mountholly/5418728290/

• [Anonymous]

  this is the one i own. its amazing. it has an internal speaker, and it plugs in to my computer and makes mp3′s of the songs if you want.

  http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=280602765265&ssPageName=STRK:MEWAX:IT

• [ROSSINDETROIT]

  This actually makes a lot of sense. Most places already had radios with high quality amplifiers and speakers. It’s pretty simple to engineer a low powered RF oscillator and antenna into the record player. That saves the space, weight and expense of adding all of the reproduction apparatus.
  Plus it’s snazzy in that ‘so what if I’m plastic I’m Italian’ kind of way.