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Old radiograms get a second life with added bluetooth feature

(31 Dec 2021) LEAD IN: Old record and radio players had a charm and particular sound profile not found in modern music devices. So a Russian company is giving these vintage items a new lease of life by upcycling them and adding a brand new feature: Bluetooth. STORY-LINE: Music aficionados of vintage items have a new device to love. Company Lagom Woo restores and sells old Rigonda radiolas, or radiograms, big record and radio players. Now equipped with Bluetooth, they can play music from any modern device too. The company was founded in December of last year (2020) in the city of Tomsk by entrepreneur and specialist in furniture restoration Tikhon Chmykhalo and electronics specialist Ivan Semyonov. They saw a particularly strong interest in these retro radiograms, especially for the brand Rigonda. According to Chmykhalo, the key driver for purchasing them is nostalgia. "These Rigonda radiolas which we are dealing with now were very common in Soviet times. They were in almost every home and were always in the spotlight. Everyone loved them, people would circle around, poke, press the buttons," he says. The project's main goal is to give a new life to these old objects and connect them with the present. The retro music machines all date from the 1960s and 1970s. The built-in Bluetooth can connect the unit to a mobile phone, a tablet or even a smart home system.   It can even also serve as an amplifier for electric guitars. The co-founder of the company Ivan Semyonov was inspired by his father, another electronics specialist, who restored an old Rigonda in his garage, but did not add Bluetooth. And that's exactly this feature that makes all the difference, Semyonov claims. "If there were no Bluetooth in them, they would most likely not sell as well. Because it's hard to use it in 2021 without it. How else can I connect to it? Getting together a bunch of records like they did in the 1970s? For some people it would be costly, some simply don't want to," says Semyonov. Many people prefer to use it as a Bluetooth speaker because of sound the radiograms produce. "Some people simply don't use the player and just listen with Bluetooth. This is an unusual sound, this is tube sound (a sound profile generated by a type of high quality sound amplifiers), if there is such a term. That is, it is pleasant to the ear, it's like (the sound of) my mother reading fairy tales in my childhood, one might say so. In general, it is necessary to hear it and only then understand it, it is impossible to convey it," says Semyonov. They bought their first radiola in July 2021 from a second-hand marketplace. Since then, the trend has only been growing.   Recently, they bought 50 of the devices in one month alone and restored 20 over the same period.   "Now, I see that this is a very fast growing and upward trend. This is relevant both for furniture, and for radiograms, and for vintage lighting. Now quite a few things like this appear, both in the restoration workshops, and sales accounts, that is, I don't know how it used to be, but now people in Russia definitely love vintage (items) very much,"  says Chmykhalo. According to Chmykhalo, the company is the only supplier of such devices in Siberia and has no strong competition elsewhere. It takes between three and seven days to restore a single Rigonda radiola. "As the radiola is not new, it is older than all of us here put together, so it is very slow to unscrew everything, it's annoying but it kills time," says Alexander Shubsky, a restorer.   The vinyl player is also changed. Find out more about AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/HowWeWork Twitter:   / ap_archive   Facebook:   / aparchives   ​​ Instagram:   / apnews   You can license this story through AP Archive: http://www.aparchive.com/metadata/you...