12 T3 FEBRUARY 2022
Horizon
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RHODES MK
From £8,244, rhodesmusic.comThere is no more iconic, desirable and rare
keyboard sound than that of the Rhodes. Some
15 years after the most recent edition, Rhodes
is back with the MK8 – and it sounds incredible.
Actually getting your hands on the new model,
with its fully analogue signal path and newly-
modulatable LFO, might not be so easy,
though. Rhodes is not exactly mass-producing
these Leeds-built homages to the original
electro-mechanical Rhodes design. It’s running
a build-to-order program whereby master
craftsmen will construct one to your exact
specs, making it unlikely they’ll be able to put
out more than 500 in a year. That complexity
and precision comes at a cost, too: if you want
an extra FX package and custom looks, expect
to pay £2,000 more.
T3 SAYS: Everybody wants a Rhodes, but a
soft synth is far cheaper.
LG OLED EVO OBJECT
COLLECTION
Around £6,000, lg.comHanging paintings? That’s so last century. All
the cool galleries dump them on the floor and
prop them against a wall these days, something
LG’s canvas-like 65ART90 aims to replicate in a
tongue-in-cheek sideswipe to Samsung’s The
Frame. It literally doesn’t have a stand, it has a
lean; it needs to be slouched against a wall to
keep it upright. A motorised Kvadrat cloth-
covered cover hides the 80W speaker package,
and lowers when you want to watch something- or goes half way, a la the rollable LG
Signature OLED R, if you’re using this for music
control. Little word yet on the precise panel,
but it appears to be a modified version of the
ace G1 OLED hardware; even with the G2 on
the way, that’s some serious screen tech if you
have the interior design chops to integrate it.
T3 SAYS: Better than The Frame? Maybe.IMAGE SOURCE: RHODESIMAGE SOURCE: LG