topic Re: Sony flamingo record player in Portable Audio

Sony flamingo record player

Rachel01 — Wed, 14 Jun 2023 15:15:13 GMT

Does Sony have any plans to re issue the wonderful and highly sought after Sony Flamingo vinyl record player. Audio Technica have had great success re issuing their soundburger and many of us would live for Sony to do the same with the Flamingo.

Re: Sony flamingo record player

jumpsuit — Fri, 16 Jun 2023 08:19:37 GMT

Hi @Rachel01 and welcome to the Community

Unfortunately we don't have access to that kind of information here but I agree

the 'flamingo' was a cool looking record player as well as being fully portable as it was battery powered 🙂

I doubt Sony would reissue them as I don't think sales were very good as the Flamingo's upright design forced the needle into the grooves by using mechanical pressure, and reportedly damaged people's records.

For any members that haven't seen it before:

Gramavox has recently attempted a similar concept though

called the Floating Record™ Vertical Turntable if that's of any interest to you.

Re: Sony flamingo record player

Rachel01 — Thu, 22 Jun 2023 07:12:34 GMT

thanks for that, it makes a lot of sense the reasons that you put forward. It's such a shame that this will probably never happen. Where is the Sony of old that created the Walkman only expecting it to do a few thousand sales?

~~Great to be in the sony community.~~

Re: Sony flamingo record player

jumpsuit — Thu, 22 Jun 2023 18:45:22 GMT

Hi @Rachel01

I'd like one just for display purposes

Glad you enjoy being here!

Re: Sony flamingo record player

ZaxZaxx — Sat, 03 Aug 2024 19:37:20 GMT

Old thread, but just in case anyone happens to come by, here's my prototype 'Hackmingo' made from a modifed Ion Duo Deck. Lots still to do (e.g. replace the terrible Chuo Denshi cartridge with a Banpa), but it seems to be working!