Teenage Engineering's APC-2 Brings Vinyl Mastering Out of the Studio

Teenage Engineering has released the APC-2, a desktop lathe for cutting vinyl records with professional sound quality. The device matches the performance of decades-old mastering equipment while supporting modern music software. Record cutting has been bottlenecked at a handful of facilities with long waiting lists. The APC-2 could shift production toward independent artists and smaller studios, much as digital audio tools democratized music production in the 1990s.