{"id":122428,"date":"2021-02-15T11:48:51","date_gmt":"2021-02-15T11:48:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techweekmag.com\/?p=122428"},"modified":"2021-04-05T06:05:46","modified_gmt":"2021-04-05T05:05:46","slug":"levi-harman-kardon-inspired-levitating-turntable","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/hi-fi\/levi-harman-kardon-inspired-levitating-turntable\/","title":{"rendered":"Levi: Harman\/Kardon-inspired Levitating Turntable"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Successful design examples from the past inspire the future.\u00a0South Korean designers Jihyo Seo and Jimin Hwang were impressed by the Harman \/ Kardon technique and\u00a0came up\u00a0with a levitating\u00a0platter\u00a0turntable in the style of the brand.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/487597660\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/487597660\">LEVI &#8211; levitating turntable<\/a> from <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\/user128569862\">Jihyo Seo<\/a> on <a href=\"https:\/\/vimeo.com\">Vimeo<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The model\u00a0was\u00a0simply named Levi.\u00a0Levitation was provided by an electromagnetic system.\u00a0Tonearms of different colors can be changed at will &#8211; they have the same properties.\u00a0On a white oval table, there are bright colored buttons for switching on, adjusting the speed (12 and 17 revolutions are indicated) and selecting a listening mode.<\/p>\n<p>The listening modes, like tone arms of different colors, first of all solve the question of aesthetics: in different modes, the disc, together with the arm base, rhythmically lowers and rises in time with the melodies, while changing the sound profile.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"big\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"big\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/02\/0514a3645e09bd56dd887c2ae20b46d3.jpg\" \/><\/figure>\n<p>The Levi concept remains as a project at the moment and raises many questions about the potential implementation, operation and value as a sound reproducing device, and not a designer gizmo. But it still looks interesting.<\/p>\n<p>[ratemypost]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Successful design examples from the past inspire the future.\u00a0South Korean designers Jihyo Seo and Jimin Hwang were impressed by the Harman \/ Kardon technique and\u00a0came up\u00a0with a levitating\u00a0platter\u00a0turntable in the style of the brand. LEVI &#8211; levitating turntable from Jihyo Seo on Vimeo. &nbsp; The model\u00a0was\u00a0simply named Levi.\u00a0Levitation was provided by an electromagnetic system.\u00a0Tonearms of [&hellip;] <a class=\"g1-link g1-link-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/hi-fi\/levi-harman-kardon-inspired-levitating-turntable\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10404,"featured_media":122429,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[642],"tags":[779],"class_list":["post-122428","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hi-fi","tag-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122428","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=122428"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/122428\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/122429"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=122428"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=122428"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=122428"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}