Modern Edison Phonograph MK2

I've finished the player and I've put it into a box and made it into a portable unit with built in loudspeakers so all you have to do is plug it in load a cylinder and press play.

[@sneff212]

Someone gotta make a kickstarter for these so the motivation to collect these wax cylinders can increase

[@jamesslick4790]

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

[@audiophile1024]

Best sounding cylinder record I have ever heard. Brilliant!

[@ANIGHTWING]

I was going to say the exact same thing, lol. He made a player that brings out all the sounds, lows and highs of the cylinder older players just can't produce. Really cool. :)

[@yonkel]

What a beautiful machine! The sound is outstanding!

[@kennethfossett8184]

The maker of this new cylinder machine should manufacture these

[@darkfalzx]

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!

[@Madjed2024]

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

[@ANIGHTWING]

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. :)

[@bazza945]

The clarity is excellent, so 'well done'.

[@andystaffyman3711]

Sounds great much better than my gem 💎

[@DeadKoby]

Impressive. The fidelity is very nice, and it's perfect for archiving old recordings.

[@jackpijjin4088]

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.

[@matthewrichards88]

This is fantastic. You have some amazing skills and knowledge! I have built an electric cylinder machine (on my channel), but this is something else! A brilliant creation

[@nefaurora]

Job Well done...! On thing though, The cylinder that you are playing is a "Blue Amberol" 4-Minute Cylinder (1912-1929) and IS NOT wax.....and has no wax in it at all. The Blue Amberol cylinder is a Celluloid made cylinder with a Plaster core. Just thought that everyone should know. See here below: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue_Amberol_Records Tony K. , Edison Collector/Restorer... :o)

[@9bang88]

You’re missing the link!!!

[@AlbertBenajam-ww1db]

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.

[@jonsymmonds1120]

AMAZING engineering! And it sounds awesome! All I can say is job well done and I am just a bit jealous. This had to have taken years to do!

[@keisaboru1155]

That's GOOOD QUALITY wooo

[@dwaynezilla]

This is ridiculously neat and very satisfying. Nice work!

[@martinhumble]

Great build and sound. Hats of!

[@ChronOJohn2]

This thing is awesome. And sound suprisingly good. Astonishing!

[@imploud]

OMG this is amazing!!!!! You had to put so much effort in this! You should do a mass production of these!

[@jcarra72]

briliant. love your work Howard.

[@captainldd]

Your a genius! This it incredible. 👍🏻

[@rocketaroo]

well engineered sir!

[@markramsey4640]

Well done!. Very impressed.

[@alananderson007008]

Amazing device!!

[@alejandromunoz8859]

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

[@gabrielepasqualoni7362]

Very good project !!! 👌

[@Melicflucius]

Marvelous: congratulations!

[@rockabillycat1954]

Would love to hear a direct line recording of this. Very nice.

[@AhitagniDasgupta]

Ingenious ❤🙏

[@Cinnimin]

that's pretty cool!

[@jhonwask]

That is awesome.

[@whitelion7976]

Make a recorder man, love it, from Swaziland

[@Edwin48100]

Can you play 2 minute cylinders,too?

[@Lucius1958]

Am I correct in surmising that this has a mechanical feed? If so, is it adjustable for 2 and 4 minute cylinders? (You'd obviously have to change the stylus for that)

[@darrencolt5955]

Job well done! Sound reproduction is excellent. However, I understand that shortly after this video was made, you were arrested by "government agents", and you have been held in solitary confinement in a top secret "mental health" facility. You have delved into a very dangerous categorie of technological development that only a "select few" should have knowledge of. Imagine how the course of human history would be disrupted if the vast "ignorant masses" suddenly had the means to play 100 year old Edison cylinder records on high fidelity playback equipment. Mr. Burton, you are a dangerous person and perhaps it is best that the "government" has decided to isolate you from the rest of society. Best of luck to you. Friend and fellow audio collector -- Darren Colt (Inmate: Chicago Institute for the Criminally Insane)

[@jaysvintagerecordsandphono6184]

Nathan A lol

[@jhonwask]

Could you do a version with the line out?

[@lubricatedgoat]

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

[@autisticrebel1253]

That is amazing. There is very little back ground noise. How long did it take you to make it?

[@danielthomas791]

AMAZING!!!.......please let me know when they go on sale!!…...thanks...

[@riazhussain1826]

Good

[@GusFernCa]

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.

[@albertbenajam4751]

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.

[@AlbertBenajam-ww1db]

And I can imagine a SONY CYLINDERMAN.

[@tedf1471]

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?)

[@demef758]

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?"....

[@thatbillguy5211]

I thought it was a turntable stylus?

[@danieldaniels7571]

​@@thatbillguy5211that's what it looks like to me, in a magnetic T4P mount cartridge

[@tinovanderzwanphonocave544]

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.

[@recordsnphonographs7263]

Dang I wish I had one 😭

[@SO_DIGITAL]

Wow! Is that an acoustic recording?

[@danieldaniels7571]

Would have to be

[@ethandudeman8359]

How did you make this?

[@Filmandmusicdegenerate]

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

[@Leonardo-ql1qu]

Nice, but why put it in a medieval box?

[@keithharrison5499]

What a first class job! Well done. You have done something very rare, in that you haver made a finished item. The ones I make invariably throw up problems that make me do another model - these things are habit forming! Have you sent details to Christer Hamp's site? you should!

[@paragraphthree]

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/

[@Josh-le6lu]

Less bass, more treble.

[@sagayapanneer9052]

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