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not worth 36 bucks |
January 9, 2010 |
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spencer white
from fort worth, TX United States
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this was my first gakken kit and it did not live up to its name the build took about fourtyfive minutes tried it out and didnt here anything so i tried it again with a different angle herd a slight wable sound and then i tried playing im sailing away by the styx [since he has a super high voice ] on my ipod dock 3 inches away from thae cone and again only herd a wobble
very dissapointing not worth 36 bucks
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Not bad |
November 16, 2009 |
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Eric
from New York, NY United States
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I'm not sure what the other reviewers were expecting for sound quality, but I got something that sounded a lot like an early Edison recording (especially since I used "Mary Had A Little Lamb" as the first try). Works best if you record LOUD and close to the horn. Battery holder and switch are definitely weak points. Kit was perhaps too easy to assemble, it took under an hour.
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Not for short attention spans |
October 31, 2009 |
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Tyler Bennett
from Cary, NC United States
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The most disappointing Gakken kit so far for me. I get these kits for my 12 & 13 yr old grandkids to put together with my looking over their shoulder.
As others have pointed out, your first results with this kit are poor to no sound reproduction. Kids quickly lose interest and move on. In my case, the kids took it home and I didn't work with it further.
I suspect you could fiddle and experiment with this kit and get better results, but this only makes sense if you enjoy that kind of challenge.
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I disagree completely!! |
October 2, 2009 |
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Michael A.
from San Francisco, CA United States
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This kit is great! First off you are dealing with turn of the LAST century technology, if you want high fidelity buy an ipod.
Second it is a SCIENCE kit, you have to EXPERIMENT with what works best, try different needle angles and voices, high pitched records better than deep (male) voices. Also play with types of "media." My best recording was with a slice of round shampoo bottle wedged where the plastic cup should go. As for the cone being "flimsy", ever touch the gray part of a speaker? It has to be light weight to work!! The rest is very well designed and I appreciated that the most of the parts are screwed together rather than "snapped" or glued together.
Again this recreates the first time ever in human history that sound could be recorded. Pops scratches and all, when Edison first demonstrated it, people thought it was some kind of trick!! BTW, my batteries don't fall out and I am so glad I didn't pay attention to the first reviews.
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Phonograph is terrible |
February 10, 2009 |
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Aaron Gallant
from Los Angeles, CA United States
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This kit is very cheap and doesn't work. You literally have to use tape to hold the horn together. As far as recording goes there is hardly anything to play back. I only got a few sparse warble sounds and clicks and pops. The only good thing this could be used for is to record the pops and clicks it makes for a sound librabry addition, but I don't think it's worth the money even just as a throw away science kit. If you want it to learn how a phonograpgh works, you'll be better off looking it up online and reading about it. Utterly dissapointing.
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