Video: Good vibrations: From Designing Ships To Making Turntables

“I think every home should have a turntable,” says Igor Gligorov. “The world would be a better place.”

His enthusiasm is perhaps understandable, because as the founder of boutique hi-fi brand Soulines, Igor certainly has a stake in the issue.
But whatever he thinks about their desirability, there isn’t a huge market out there for the old-fashioned record players where you lower a needle onto pressed vinyl discs.
The vast majority of people have embraced the low cost and convenience of digital music.

The four-year-old company has only just started making a profit and it is Igor‘s enthusiasm for for music, design and creativity that is keeping him going.
“I started to play cello when I was five. As a teenager I discovered punk – and there, everything started: a passion for a different kind of music. Then my passion for high quality hi-fi equipment developed and slowly this passion became the main thing in my life.”

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