This wall-mounted turntable, CD-player and cassette system is ideal for retro music lovers in tiny homes —you just need a spot for a Bluetooth speaker
Successful Kickstarter Trettire Retro Ambient Audio System is now shipping Combines several retro physical media sources in a fun configuration Sits on your wall (components can be moved), with multiple extra novelties You can rely on Kickstarter to surface some of the stranger audio products out there, and it's true to form today.
A successful campaign from a company called Trettitre has brought us one such device, and it's shipping now.
This is called the Retro Ambient Audio System , a title that's both uncatchy but accurate.
It made over $2 million on a goal of $3,000, in just 15 days of funding (this was back in March and April), but you can still make late pledges of $399 (or a conversion for the equivalent in your country; it's about £300 or AU$600) to receive the full bundle.
According to Trettitre, the full MSRP of the device is $899.
Since you can order the bundle for $500 less post-campaign, though, it's not clear if it'll ever actually sell for this price.
So what is the RAAS? Well, as you can see in the images, it's an all-in-one physical media machine.
It's a combined record player, CD player and cassette player, which is designed to let you listen to any kind of physical media at home.
You can buy the components separately if you like, but the fun is in the setup with the magnetic wall-rack.
Trettitre's marketing videos show users removing the record player from the wall, carrying it via a handle, plugging in some IEMs and listening to vinyl on their kitchen table, because this turntable has an onboard battery that charges when you put it back on its wall-mount.
There's one thing missing though: a speaker.
You can buy this separately, with Trettitre selling loads of extras including multiple speakers, but know it's not included in the box.
Lights, colors, buttons (Image credit: Trettitre) Perhaps the first novelty of the Trettitre RAAS is that it's all wall-mounted.
Following in the footsteps of Ultrasonic Audio's gorgeous wall-mounted speakers and Fuse Audio's vertical turntable , the company is embracing vertical audio, which is popular among fashionistas (and people with smaller apartments) but decried by audiophiles.
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