APC–2 – A professional record cutter for producing original playback discs

Re:APC–2 – A professional record cutter for producing origin... by PCI-eX16 on Sunday June 07, 2026 @09:52PM (#48440523)

our shared vision is to enable access to anyone who wants their music or sound on a physical record.

FWIW, You can get 100 records + jackets printed professionally for ~$10 a pop.

Gakken toy record cutter is low quality, but costs $160.

I wonder what this would cost. Surely it's impractical for personal use, as marketed.

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Re:APC–2 – A professional record cutter for producing origin... by rtpg on Sunday June 07, 2026 @09:56PM (#48440553)

The Gakken toy record cutter was only 8000 yen when it was released[0].

My spouse bought one on a whim. The quality is ... quite bad. It's a tool for learning about how this works though! So it was a fun little activity. But it really is "just" what it is.

Maybe Teenage Engineering's toy that looks like is exactly the same tech is better. I have my doubts.

[0]: https://hon.gakken.jp/book/1575072200

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Re:APC–2 – A professional record cutter for producing origin... by emj on Monday June 08, 2026 @03:00AM (#48442100)

The two groove cutters(?) on the APC-2 look like the weigh more than that toy cutter. It is interesting that this prints in realtime is that a toy thing?

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Re:APC–2 – A professional record cutter for producing origin... by handspun on Sunday June 07, 2026 @09:58PM (#48440566)

Shipping is making things prohibitively expensive in many parts of the world

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Re:APC–2 – A professional record cutter for producing origin... by whywhywhywhy on Monday June 08, 2026 @05:00AM (#48442900)

Yeah that copy doesn’t line up with the reality of the pricing or production run of this thing at all.

Cool project but the opposite of democratization.

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