"Snow White's coffin" Braun SK4 record player
Designed in 1954 for Braun by Dieter Rams. In the Design Museum.
This photo was taken on December 15, 2009.
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drewm (30 months ago | reply)
What scale is this? Is that a full size turntable?
clagnut (30 months ago | reply)
Yes, it's a full size turntable. The whole device is about 70cm long.
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adamdorrell (26 months ago | reply)
No, it's not a full size turntable. It's the same size as a 7" record. LPs and 12" disks were able to be played with the lid down, but the disk hangs out of the back a little. If you look at the back of the lid, you can see a cut out, and that's where the disk goes (about 1cm outside the box itself). On the photo here the cutout is rectangular, on ours the lid had a beautiful curved cut out, just large enough for the record (although on some spectacularly warped records I owned they would occasionally brush against the lid. .
Skyislander (26 months ago | reply)
does it work with exterior amps or preamps? Are there any rca out connections?
adamdorrell (25 months ago | reply)
From memory there is a 5pin DIN socket at the back (180degrees I think) which I used to use to get sound in (mono only). I think there used to be an extra speaker available in the same style, but I am guessing single channel mono. Hope that helps.
jm_morrow (15 months ago | reply)
You can get the speaker here: cgi.ebay.com/BRAUN-L1-L-1-LOUDSPEAKER-ATELIER -SK-4-SK4-DI...
jm_morrow (14 months ago | reply)
Tip, look for them on german ebay. You can pick them up for about half of the ones on ebay.com (which mostly come out of germany anyway).
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