The combination of a TWEETER & BASS loadspeakers brings out a "Hi-Fi" range that I never realized existed on the Edisons. As another comment says, if cylindars has survived their compactness like CD or cassets would have.made them a portable medium, as playrs like this would be portable than attachie case portables.

Good

Great work. 👍🏻

Your a genius! This it incredible. 👍🏻

Ingenious ❤🙏

Wow! Is that an acoustic recording?

After repairing and maintaining a Standard A phonograph I am amazed at how ingeniously simple that machine is! I SO wish something this modern player was commercially available!

Is the head of your phonograph driven forward by the grooves in the cylinder or by a separate long horizontal screw in the machine (or perhaps the motor)? My understanding is that Edison cylinder and even disk phonograph arms were driven by a screw with some tolerance to follow the groove so that skips back to the previous groove would eventually be corrected and there would be no need to manually skip over the damaged part of the cylinder. I wonder how these old records actually sounded when they were brand new without the wear of many playings.

To quote @audiophile1024 "Best sounding cylinder record I have ever heard. Brilliant!". He made a player that brings out all the sounds, lows and highs of the cylinder older players just can't produce. Really cool. :)

That is amazing I am very stunned by how clear is the sound You are very creative

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Ooooooh! Thomas Edison would've love it!

Beautiful record player

great but with my 7.000-cylinder archive I'm thinking of cylinder formats what about the 1890-99 Lioret cylinders the stentor/concert cylinders intermediate pathé cylinders the in-between Phenix cylinders and others to the Mae doll cylinders. playing just a long tonearm to my Edison or Columbia C does the job with the right software or wiring it will do the job digitizing of a cylinder of any type and any format.

Very good project !!! 👌

The clarity is excellent, so 'well done'.

I never knew a cylinder record could sound so good! 👍😊👍

please give us a blue print or something to make one of these!

What a beautiful machine! The sound is outstanding!

What a fabulous invention. It sounds superb! Hint: The earliest Four Minute Blue Amberol Cylinders play the best of all. (1912 just into 1914 when the fire destroyed the Cylinder Record Factory.) The Plaster was colored dark blue and does not warp the playing surface. The tops are always flat across.

Nice, but why put it in a medieval box?

that's pretty cool!

The blue cylinder triggered a memory of a plastic belt dictaphone that had clear blue belts you cut a message on in a similar way. (Dictabelt?)

Sounds great much better than my gem 💎

That's GOOOD QUALITY wooo

This is ridiculously neat and very satisfying. Nice work!

Be cool to make a recorder that could input an mp3, for example, and lay the track down on a wax cylinder or similar.

Wax cylinders of Addison,📠📠📠📠😘👊👊👊👊👊👊👊👊👊✋

Addison, 😘😘😘😘🍞📠

I wish something like this was sold with some reproduction wax cylinders so you could put a small player on your desk and enjoy old music with a modern and easy set up.

Its interesting that if the cylindar format survived to the present day, machine would today be have internal construction like this with controls for tone and outputes for line & headphones etc. Commercialy mehensim would be conceled and outer case covered cosmeticaly, but "modern" machines would essentialy be like yours. Naturaly would have higher fidelity, and more likely made of vynle, not celluloid etc. They of course would be longer playing, and stereo speakers fitted etc. Cylinders did have a physical form more portable that discs, and machines like this might fill nich that CD, cassete portables fill in todays for todays formats, in short what cylindas players would have evolved to. Anywar a wonderful thing you have done, and with LineOut,a way to digitalize them better han holding a microphone in front of a horn.

Looks like a perfect tool to digitize cylinder recordings! Great job!

The maker of this new cylinder machine should manufacture these

Love the HEAVILY! pronounced and rolled "R's"

Nice... Really Nice... That is the right machine for my shop in Germany 😍

Sounds incredible!

Of note: the record being played, as well as any other similar record, is easily nearing a century old if not more. Yes, it's disheartening to hear it skip or for sound to drop out, etc., but if anything you should expect *worse* from it. Our expectation of 'perfection' can be lent testament to the exponential increase in recording and playback quality since the era of cylinder records, and also to the exceptional playback quality of the device at hand. Not to mention non-destructive as a typical Edison may potentially be if used improperly.

Amazing. Do you do audio reproduction services? I've a few cylinders at home I'd love to see played on your machine...

Less bass, more treble.

Best sounding cylinder record I have ever heard. Brilliant!

Absolutely brilliant! Out of curiosity, how did you build your mechanical-to-electrical transducer? Is it simply a local microphone placed near the diaphragm, or something more involved than that? The "snark" in me wants to ask "why not 5-channel Dolby audio?"....

Make a recorder man, love it, from Swaziland

You got SUCH a great sound out of the record. WOW!!

Can you load more cylinder pieces. The quality sound is just amazing. Monaural but very clear. Do you think you might have Jose Mojica pieces. I am interested in such tenor. Kudos for you

Dang I wish I had one 😭

Amazing device!!

I made a similar thing several years ago, though mine is a little more primitive. Have you checked out the following site: www.christerhamp.se/phono/

Can you play 2 minute cylinders,too?

That is really neat! Can you play 2 minute cylinders as well?

I have a few edison drums i planned to do the same some day to make a player for them so yours is great for ideas when i get around to it .