MorningBlues built a floor speaker shaped like a giant vinyl record, and the middle of the record is a round screen. The Record R1 runs your album art and lyrics on that screen. The maker’s store just cut it to $985 from $1,699.
It stands on solid walnut legs, wrapped in acoustic fabric. Furniture first, then speaker.
MorningBlues Record R1 Speaker
Five-driver 2.1 sound · Jamo powered · Floor-standing
Price: $1,299
Where to buy: Buy on Amazon
A round screen that runs your album art and lyrics
The screen is a 324 mm circle of anti-glare mirror glass, set into the middle of the record face. It pulls real-time album artwork from your streams and animates it while the track plays, so the cover never just sits there. MorningBlues calls the display system MoodLyric. The circle is big enough to read from the couch.
Nine dynamic lyric modes dress the words up differently, from plain lines to full animated scenes that fill the circle. Lyrics sync with Spotify, Apple Music and more, with no extra apps in the chain between you and the words.
Four of the maker’s scene setups name the moods outright: Morning Coffee, Focused Work, Dinner With Friends and Late-Night Listening. Each one restyles the circle for the room you’re in, so the same speaker wears a different face all day. MorningBlues says the artwork evolves with the music itself, which means a slow song and a loud one never wear the same face.
The mirror finish keeps it readable in daylight and after dark, across the room. No glare, no squinting.
Five drivers and Jamo tuning behind the fabric
MorningBlues pairs the screen with a five-driver 2.1 system behind the fabric. Jamo powered the sound. One 6.5-inch subwoofer handles the low end.
Two racetrack midrange drivers and two 3/4-inch tweeters sit beside it, behind the same acoustic fabric, aimed at vocals and detail. Class D amps drive the set with 400 watts to the subwoofer, 200 to each midrange and 150 to each tweeter, and the rated range runs 50 to 20,000 Hz.
The split follows the layout of the drivers: bass down low, vocals in the middle, detail on top. You hear the words and watch them land on the circle at the same time. Four sound modes, too.
A 400-watt Class D amp drives the subwoofer alone, with 700 more watts across the other pairs. Total system power adds up to 1,100 watts, per the maker’s own spec sheet.
Living with a 30.9 lb record
The R1 stands 34.96 inches tall on its walnut legs. It stretches 23.62 inches wide and 14.57 inches deep, floor-standing furniture scale, closer to a side table than a speaker. It weighs 30.9 lb. So it stays exactly where you put it, legs and all.
It stays plugged in on a 2 m power cord, with no battery inside. You run it from the MorningBlues app or the physical controls on the unit itself, whichever is closer. Bluetooth 5.1 and dual-band Wi-Fi carry your streams from the apps you already use, and the app even renames the speaker’s Bluetooth name.
A turntable plugs into the 3.5mm input, but analog plays audio only, with no lyrics or visuals on screen, and phone videos can’t cast to the display either. English only, and no touchscreen.
Setup runs unbox, legs, phone, play, in that order on the maker’s own setup video. The maker recommends running the app from one phone for the smoothest control. The video runs under a minute.
When the music stops, the built-in custom clock takes over the circle. The room keeps a clock and loses another black box.
Where the deal actually lives
At the maker’s own store, the Record R1 is $985. List price is $1,699. The Record plus Portrait bundle pairs it with the Portrait T2 frame for $1,598 instead of $3,198, and that bundle clears the store’s $1,200 line for a free X1 headphone. The bundle’s second piece is the Portrait T2, the maker’s portrait-format companion speaker for the same system.
Your $985 buys three things at once: the screen, the stereo and the furniture piece, in one object with one cord. Separately, that’s three boxes and a shelf problem. The artwork your phone used to hide in a corner of the screen finally fills a room instead.
Amazon carries the R1 too, at $1,299. That’s $314 more than the maker’s sale price, so Amazon is the backup plan here, not the deal.
MorningBlues Record R1 Speaker
9 lyric modes · Built-in clock
Price: $985 (save $714, 42% off $1,699)
Where to buy: Buy at MorningBlues
Buy it if your living room has a corner begging for a statement piece. Your playlists deserve a screen of their own at last. Skip it if you want portable, battery-powered or cheap, because this is none of those three.
