Ikea’s grounds subordinate made successful collaboration with euphony supergroup Swedish House Mafia is set to spell connected merchantability connected October 1st. The all-black instrumentality sports an unsurprisingly minimalistic look and volition outgo you $159.99 erstwhile it hits Ikea’s maze-like stores.
The grounds subordinate is portion of Ikea’s overarching Obegränsad (the Swedish connection for “unlimited”) collection, which includes an equally-as-modern armchair, desk, LED enactment lamp, grounds stand, laptop stand, and shelving units, among different items. Ikea first announced the grounds subordinate successful June, marking the furnishings maker’s 2nd effort astatine creating and selling a grounds player. The grounds subordinate it was moving connected successful 2018 ne'er went connected sale, but it looks similar we person a overmuch amended changeable of really getting our hands connected the instrumentality this clip around.
The grounds subordinate doesn’t travel with built-in speakers, which means you’ll person to link it to 1 via the included RCA cable. It does travel with a built-in preamp, however, truthful astatine slightest you won’t person to bargain that separately. Ikea notes that the grounds player’s compatible with the Eneby Bluetooth speaker (albeit done a wired connection) and is powered by USB-C, though you’ll person to proviso your ain charging brick. Some different things to enactment are that the grounds subordinate is belt-driven, has a replaceable AT3600L cartridge with a conical diamond tip, and supports 2 speeds of 33 and 45RPM.
Update September 12th, 9:40AM ET: Updated to adhd that the grounds subordinate volition spell connected merchantability October 1st.
Update September 12th, 2:52PM ET: Updated to enactment much method details astir the grounds player.