Korg’s First Record Players Are Designed For Djs, Audiophiles, And Archivists

Korg has announced a caller postulation of portable grounds players pinch each exemplary featuring specialized functionality depending connected what you for illustration to do pinch your vinyl. The Handytraxx Play is designed for DJs who execute pinch their turntables, nan Handytraxx Tube has a overmuch premium build to maximize sound quality, while nan Handytraxx 1bit includes further devices and outputs for digitizing vinyl.

They don’t personification merchandise dates yet, but nan postulation will commencement astatine $399 for nan Handytraxx Play. It’s a important jump aft that to nan $799 Handytraxx Tube, while nan 1bit will beryllium moreover pricier astatine $999.

If nan creation of nan Handytraxx turntables consciousness familiar, it’s because you’re astir apt aged tin to retrieve a akin merchandise from Vestax called nan Handy Trax that debuted successful nan early aughts. Korg’s updated versions were developed successful collaboration pinch Vestax’s erstwhile president and co-creator of nan original Handy Trax, Toshihide Nakama, earlier he passed successful 2023.

The Handytraxx Play is designed for DJs who for illustration to scratch aliases sample vinyls arsenic information of a unrecorded performance. It features a built-in crossfader, low-pass, high-pass, and EQ filters, a clasp effect, and a built-in adaptable velocity looper for signaling samples and creating beats. Its powerfulness expanse tin too beryllium flipped astir for correct aliases left-handed use.

The Play tin beryllium powered by an AC adapter aliases six AA batteries and features a brace of 2.5-watt speakers for entertaining a crowd without nan petition for further equipment. You tin too plug successful a brace of headphones for a backstage performance.

The Handytraxx Tube upgrades nan Play pinch an aluminium die-cast platter that uses package to monitoring its proscription and velocity to support a unchangeable rotation and optimize playback. Its reside limb too features an adjustable counterweight truthful you tin move needles while ensuring you ever personification nan owed portion connected your records to prolong their life.

As nan punishment implies, nan Tube uses Korg’s Nutube vacuum conduit exertion that “operates precisely arsenic a triode vacuum tube” and “creates nan aforesaid characteristic rich | | overtones,” nan institution claims. The conduit exertion “adds pleasant harmonics characteristic of vacuum tubes for a rich, immersive sonic experience,” while bass and treble controls fto you dial successful your preferred balance.

Korg is too offering a constricted type type of this turntable called nan Tube J arsenic information of a collaboration pinch a Japanese institution called JICO. The J type swaps nan Tube’s modular JICO J44A 7 cartridge pinch JICO’s Clipper MM Cartridge featuring an upgraded creation and improved performance. It too boosts nan Tube’s worth tag to $1,199.

The Handytraxx 1bit carries guardant nan hardware upgrades of nan Tube but utilizing Korg’s included AudioGate 4 package it tin digitize vinyl to nan Direct Stream Digital (DSD) format which was primitively developed by Sony and Philips for nan Super Audio CD (SACD). Instead of capturing 16 audio samples 44,100 times per 2nd arsenic is done pinch accepted audio CDs, nan 1bit and Korg’s package captures azygous samples 5.6 cardinal times per second, resulting successful a overmuch higher worth recordings suitable for archiving.