Audio-Technica resurrects its Sound Burger portable turntable from the '80s - Engadget

Audio-Technica is bringing backmost its iconic Sound Burger portable turntable. After astir 40 years and countless clones, the updated exemplary adds a fewer caller features to marque it much appealing to modern listeners. To start, the 2022 Sound Burger includes Bluetooth connectivity and a built-in lithium-ion artillery with USB-C charging. In different words, you won’t request to root a trio of C-cell batteries to powerfulness the caller model. According to Audio-Technica, you tin expect to get astir 12 hours of continuous playback from the 2022 Sound Burger earlier it needs to beryllium charged.

The institution has tweaked the plan of the turntable successful a fewer different ways. For one, you won’t find an extendable cord hanger for your headphones. Speaking of headphones, the 2022 exemplary doesn’t travel with a complimentary brace similar its predecessor. However, it volition vessel with an RCA cablegram if you similar to physically link the turntable to your dependable system. The 2022 exemplary besides comes banal with an Audio-Technica ATN3600L stylus. Otherwise, this is successful galore ways the aforesaid turntable a batch of radical fondly remember. Like its predecessor, it features a DC centrifugal with a loop thrust that tin play 33 1/3 and 45 RPM records, meaning you tin usage it to perceive to some full-length LPs and singles. It besides looks conscionable arsenic bully arsenic it did backmost successful 1983.

The 2022 Sound Burger is disposable to bargain starting contiguous for $199/£200/€229. That’s a tenable terms erstwhile you see a vintage exemplary tin acceptable you backmost arsenic overmuch arsenic $500 connected eBay. No connection yet if Audio-Technica plans to bring backmost the Mister Disc branding for the US release.