does it have Dolby 7.1 sourround sound and can it play my MP3s with DRM?

OMG!!!! What are they thinking???!!!! Music without DRM!!!! Someone call the MAFIAA gestapo on these people!!! Let’s have their internet disconnected (doesn’t matter why, just do it)!!! Let’s sue them for $150000 per wax cylinder [/sarcasm off]

Nice hack. It’s hard to replicate some old technology. I’d like to see a vinyl record making machine done on the cheap.

@JB

Forget your meds this morning?

This is neat. Someone needs to go all-out and steampunk it. It might actually fit this time :)

The device shown on the BBC is a neat hack, but until I had an idea as to what the “stylus” was doing to the wax, i wouldn’t go anywhere near the cylinder with it… unless I had a spare.

Looking back at the HAD September masterpiece, it reminded me that the site hosting that design has a whole slew of others, my favorite being the “Tim Brooks” method, which used a turntable whose tone arm swung beyond the side of the device to engage a wax cylinder spun on an old Edison or similar placed along side.

the bbc’s effort was appalling, what a piece of rubbish. They couldn’t even get it turning true. Can’t believe they get paid to do this rubbish its shameful

@draeath: Forget to read the [/sarcasm] part? Get a sense of humor kid.

dear lord, they should be put to death for treating the wax like that.

im truely shocked at the build quality of the diy cylinder player and that they would even want to show that thing.

loved the sound engineers studio though, his recorder showed true build quality.

check the direct to beer website of
flo kaufmann here:
http://www.floka.com/direct2beer.html
and here
http://www.floka.com/lofi/dbmastering.html

or direct into plastic with a cnverted edison machine.

http://www.floka.com/lofi/edison/edison_cut.html

and a video of the performance in german only:
http://www.art-tv.ch/5479-0-soundkuenstler–kaufmann–strotter-inst-.html