A record player that can play CDs: The Fisher DAC-145

Ahh. CD changers. I have a 100+1 disc unit collecting dust. I don't know what to do with it.

This was made for me, I love it😂

cool

This is amazing. I was graduating college in 1990 and today is the first I've been made aware of this device. But had I known about it then, I probably would not have purchased one. I have always enjoyed vinyl records, but I would have wanted a separate turntable and CD player, even then. I can see people from my dad's generation purchasing this, if they were grudgingly trying to enter the CD era while holding on to the record collection they had built up in the previous two or three decades. (This wouldn't have appealed to my grandparents' generation, they'd have needed 78 RPM as well, but man, I'd love to see this thing spin THAT fast! It might levitate.)

If I found one now, I'd probably buy it just for the novelty. But I will go so far as to say this: Compared to the Crosleys and Victrolas being sold today, this IS audiophile gear. It baffles me when I see people play a modern pressing that costs $30 - $40 on a record player that costs $80 - $90, which is literally gouging out the groove with every rotation. If I could find this Fisher/Sanyo unit in a thrift shop next to a crate of $1 records, that would present a better value, to my tastes anyway. Thanks for showing it off!

Wait, did he get that flood record from the tour?

I HATE it when people call records vinyl. They are records and they always have been. Believe me. I was around when records were a thing, and no one called them vinyl, they called them what they were, records. Face it, the only people that call records vinyl, are not even old enough to have been around when records were still a thing but yet somehow think they are experts on them compared to someone that has used them everyday.

DiscoVision by Anders Enger Jensen.

That Ray Lynch album is great. So is Nothing Above Your Shoulders But The Evening.

Honestly. I can see this being a great modern piece for someone wanting to get into physical music media. One device for both but will eventually be swapped out for more precise equipment


They need to remake it with more modern build quality and maybe with a built in speaker along with the outputs

this is the second time ive heard you use that record as an example for... well record related things. is there a reason you seemingly always use that one specially? not like i'm complaining though, it's a good song

This reminds me of a discussion I had with a sale person when I was considering buying a PS3. As a cost cutting measure, Sony had removed the backward compatibility with PS2 games after the first models. I told the salesman that I wish they didn’t do that. He answered, very rightfully: “if you own PS2 games, you own a PS2. Then, keep the PS2, and don’t bother with that.” It’s the same here. Who would need a record player in a CD unit at that time? If they owned records, they owned a turntable and didn’t need this.

I just discovered and subscribed to your channel after being here all day... I've loved your videos on this combo device and your series on the RCA CED. I would love to see a video on another unusual turntable, the Sharp RP-117 "Both Sides Front Loading" turntable (and some similar, related products). You've probably heard of it. I have a working one, but I'm sure you could do an episode on the quirky thing.

Excellent DISCussion.

No friggin way, my Dad bought one of these in the 90's at a weird ass electronics store

I asked him why he bought he and he said 'price and cheap records'. He wanted a CD changer, this one was a good price, and records were as cheap as a quarter up to about $5 per record for something pretty good. So, in his mind he got the CD player he wanted and it gave him an option to buy dirt cheap second hand music at the pawn shops around town. He also mentioned that he didn't own any records before this machine and it was the reason he got into them, just to save some money; he would have been in his early 20s when he bought it. Funniest part about it all, he would have loved the machine more if it also played cassettes and 8-tracks from his cars; talk about a weird machine if that were a thing

Honestly I'm surprised this wasn't a point made in the video after talking to me Dad about it; like yeah records were unpopular and no one cared about them, but that's what made them so cheap and for some people who didn't care at all about the type of media and only the music played, it made sense price wise

Still though, pretty niche and I feel as if second hand record prices are a happy accident during the design process and marketing meetings on this one and not something that was originally taken into account

Your script writing is awesome!!

Couldn't you get around the switch issue with a splitter cable making the 2 outs into 1, or is there something I'm missing?

of course you're a TMBG head..... my goat....

I want one! :)

EDIT: I want that record too! :)

That TMBG record is gorgeous

WTF, why are all the comments from 3 years ago??????????????????? Is YT totally screwed up?
Also, why do you have trails on your hands, it feels like I'm tripping... the 3 year old comments on a 2 hour old video (3,640 of them) doubles down on this trip.

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One of the problems affecting compact disc sells and polarity is the self perpetuating notion that CDs must be "played" live from the CD player. If that's the case, then of course streaming music will win out because of convenience. The only advantage CDs have is their massive collegiality, artwork, liner notes, the pleasure of owning things one can physically show off to family and friends. However, force folks to pop the CD into a player to play the music and that's a catastrophic handicap for the compact disc industry, and by extension the music industry and band/artist careers. The solution is simple, introduce CD library music equipment: pop in the CD and the library ripper, and it instantly rips the CD into it's library. If it's already in there it prompts you, "already in the library" if you have a new copy of an old release, say Led Zeppelin IV, a new mastering, then the player prompts "adding 2024 mastering of Led Zeppelin IV" etc, then you have your old release and the new release. Drive storage space is super cheap nowadays. This could have never have been done when CDs were originally released, because hard drives where brand new and much smaller than the capacity of a compact disc, at about 40 megabytes (CD is about 700 megabytes worth of digital data, much of it redundant for error checking and correcting to remedy scratched data spots) Want to listen to your Library, the machine would connect to speakers via bluetooth, or to your vintage receiver via RCA, and even allow you to send albums off to your car to listen to them there, or your smarthphone. The music industry is super short sited. In fact, I think it's short sited because cultural authorities want to destroy the music industry, or make is so horrible that the mainstream doesn't listen to much music (except at the grocery store). In the end, music is one of the most successful forms of Freedom of Speech, and for that reasons, commies will always want to destroy it to before enforce their top-down messaging by their big-media systems and by their big-media systems alone. Support freedom of speech, and save the music albums on your own equipment, not in the "cloud" which is really just a nice word for the commie's super big computer system, where they get to erase your stuff when they see fit

"Please never call this a 'vinyl," you heathens! It is a vinyl record!" Ack-chew-al-ly, it is a Long-Playing Microgroove Record! It was invented by Peter Goldmark and was introduced into the market by Columbia Records in 1948. So there! The term LP was specifically coined in order to name it. I know I'm the voice in the wilderness, but as I keep saying: LP is the format. Vinyl is a substance.

TOTALLY Agree with you about "VINYLS" (1 vinyl record, 2 vinyl records - I believe it's called "plural" )

I NEED THIS AGHHHHHHHHHHHHHH👹👹👹👹👹👹

You know, seeing the CD spin like that, it bothers me that even though we can make CDs to pretty ridiculous accuracy, most manufacturers looked at centering the labels and went "eh, good enough"

Imagine a Blu Ray minidisc

That's funny. I thought index and track were the same thing. I have had audio books that were 1 track per CD just used index markers exactly like tracks.

Analogue is en vogue 😂

Records were a thing in my childhood, because of parents and grandparents having them and me being allowed to listen to them to entertain myself because they're fairly durable - and nothing short of a direct bomb hit is going to kill a Fisher-Price record player.

I honestly think this was a decent enough idea. While the record was out of fashion for new releases at the time, plenty of people still had existing record libraries (and speaking of libraries, I'm pretty sure you could borrow records from lending libraries at the time), records were cheap at thrift stores, and plenty of people with records would have needed a new player either due to their old one failing or due to moving out and not getting to take their parents' turntable with them.

I get so gitty when you're visibly peeved... Vinyl... My new favorite word.

Understanding this is an older video, and that any possible desire to use this machine may be long gone, I still have a suggestion to help with the horrible slipping vinyl... there are weights made specifically to sit on the spindle nub and apply, well, you guessed it, weight to the record. They do help with slipping quite a bit.

Anyways... wonderful content. Thank you for the time and effort you put into all of your videos!

1990: Why buy a combo CD/record player, when you can just use two separate devices?

2024: Why buy a separate phone, camera, music player, notepad, alarm clock, flashlight, calculator, and GPS, when you can just have one device that does everything?

That's a combo player. But a needle can never play a CD. But a laser CAN play a record. Although the player will cost you 16000.

Ok but I gotta be honest, I would rock the SHIT out of this. I love old, weird, and obscure, and I would gladly trade my LP 60x for something like this. I have a radio with a CRT screen on it. I'm trying to figure out how to use RF modulators to use it as a PC monitor. The insaner an idea is, the more I love it.

I don't think that CDs will have the kind of resurgence records have had. For nostalgia, maybe, but CDs aren't fundamentally different to a more modern format... They're just lower quality. Analogue formats are fundamentally different in the way they store information, different digital ones are much more apples to apples.

I appreciate the passive aggression towards audiophiles

For an added bonus, when you finish watching, rewatch and press '2' and '3' on your keyboard in quick rhythm. Recor-- Recor-- Record player... Spins it Spins it... Record-- Record-- Record player though. It's full of holes!

now you have explained the use of vinyl, please teach america its lego or lego, like one sheep is a sheep and ten sheep are still sheep not sheeps, its one piece of lego or ten pieces of lego not ten f'ing legos

Made of 100% genuine plastic. So cheap and flimsy the platter actually flexes when you lightly push it. I personally don't need or care about a machine that plays both formats. I'd rather have separate components because quality means far more to me than whether it plays cross-formats.

Vinyl definitely didn't die in the techno scene in the 90s... maybe we were the only ones keeping it alive, but it took a while before DJ CD players were viable so it really was king of the scene for even that gap period.

They could have....... added a ring of rubber for every spare space for the record to make it grip better and give side stability? just a idea...

three tmbg albums mentioned... i kept getting distracted by them

I think my uncle had one of these back in the day. Also, props on being an owner of Factory Showroom.

That Discovision song is a banger!