The Levitating Turntable - What Magic Is This?

Yeah, okay. This is an exciting one. I mean, it's a bit different. It's quite different in fact

This, my friends, is the world's first levitating turntable. The turntable itself, it levitates

It's like old meets new. The old tech with the vinyl turntable

This thing is not cheap. It's like an art piece. It's like a statement

It's for somebody who has everything. It's called Mag Lab Audio. You can check out their website

There's a couple different versions of it. They raised like half a million bucks. Now I have a turntable

I've used one in the past. All right, you've seen it here on the channel a far more basic turntable than this one

So this is on another level from the stuff that I've used in the past obviously And I don't know maybe there's an argument here that there's actually some added practicality

We have nice little felt mat anti-skating weight a couple allen wrenches. This is the counterweight. Oh

Oh, some high-quality audio cables included. Now, this is the portion that I believe levitates

This thing looks super high-quality. Smells high-quality. Yeah, this is the part that's going to levitate

You can see the design here with the various spokes on it. And here is the turntable

It is a Project Carbon arm. That thing is expensive on its own

Okay, let's get it set up. This thing is pretty wild There a bit of a setup process You have some normal turntable stuff like the counterweight the anti weight and then the angle These pegs allow you to line up the bottom of the turntable

If you take a look at it right here, these various magnetic portions

This is impressive for a couple reasons. Not just because it's sitting there floating

but because it then has to spin at the correct pace, at the correct rate

to play back your record accurately. Line this thing up. Kind of fights you a bit

There we go. Should we put a record on? Perfect. Now we're gonna set the knob here to 33

And at this point, very shortly, you're gonna be completely levitating. You see this? Look at that. Boom

Levitation. Now the arm is ready to go, but it's waiting for the record to spin at the proper RPM

that takes a second to get up to it so keep an eye on the needle you see what I'm saying here listen to this

now you can still lift up the tone arm like you normally would on any type of turntable

You can move it over to say a different track and drop it down It might look kind of like it because you have the arm over here, but there's nothing it's not touching anywhere

The only place it's touching is where the needle meets the record. That's it

Shout out to Brock Berrigan sent over his new record check him out

And then just flick this to off, to the off position and watch what happens

Here they come. So they will grab the platter and at this point this is where you would switch the record if you wanted to

Or potentially flip sides like this. Should we just play some more music

We'll be right back

Okay, obviously this thing is super cool. I mean, I feel the responsibility at various times to bring you the cool things that show up here at the studio

You can imagine in a dimly lit room, some stark minimalist environment and just a floating turntable with the proper record

You are elevated in that moment. you reach beyond the stratosphere and into outer space temporarily

through a levitating turntable. This thing is called the Maglev. What's the price, Will

I hate to tell them. I hate to tell them, but I gotta tell them. $2,900. For those of you that already have everything

this is something else that you probably do not have currently. It's getting tougher and tougher to blow people's minds

You have some guests over, couple of drinks, levitating turntable, Sounds like a good time to me