![]() Finally, there was the question of where to put the thing. Also, when a car speeds up, slows down, or turns, the movement creates g-forces that knock a rotating record off-kilter-so it would need extra stability. First, they needed it to overcome bumps in the road that cause the needle to jump off its track. Needless to say, the SCPS team faced numerous challenges to create a record player that works while a car is driving. “But we never found anything that referenced a record player actually working while the car was in motion.” “In our research, all the ads and reviews of turntables in cars said ‘Yeah, they work well,’” says Wertz. There’s no record of their success, and when SCPS sourced a vintage record player for a car to check it out, it performed even worse than the tabletop versions they had been testing. But none of these record players actually worked while driving-or at least that’s the assumption. In the 1960’s, chart-topping musicians were seen installing turntables in their personal vehicles as passion projects, and automotive companies even included them in select models. But making a record player that can play in a moving car has historically been difficult. Vinyl is widely considered to produce the best audio quality, its physical grooves creating a warmer, richer, deeper sound for music. “No one knew exactly how we would come up with something that would actually play vinyl in a moving car-but we love a challenge, and had to give it a shot.” “Our team at first looked at me like I was crazy when I said we could build this,” says Don Wertz, a creative account manager at SCPS, which creates innovations for Hollywood’s biggest blockbusters. ![]() And to boot, Lexus teamed up with DJs and producers Madlib and Kaytranada, who collaborated for the first time to record two new singles to crank on the one-of-a-kind vinyl system. The reason for even attempting the project was simple: if Lexus could go all in on creating the ultimate sport sedan, then surely there was a way to craft the ultimate listening experience. In January, Lexus and SCPS, a creative technology studio in Los Angeles, collaborated to produce one of the world’s most radical audio experiences, a new 2021 Lexus IS 350 F SPORT that can play a vinyl record while traveling up to 80 miles per hour.
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