For years the design of music-related objects has followed a fairly precise direction: hide the technology, make it smaller and smaller, discreet, almost invisible. TINYL instead starts from the opposite idea: its CD players and turntables don’t try to disappear into the surroundings, but to engage with them, turning listening into a visible part of domestic life.

The Japanese brand builds its research around physical music, right at a time when streaming has made access to songs almost immaterial. In June 2026, on the occasion of Interior Lifestyle Tokyo, TINYL summed up this direction in the concept From music players to objects for living: no longer just devices for playing music, but objects designed to inhabit everyday spaces.

The collection thus moves between very different languages. COVER, the brand’s top-tier CD player, opts for an essential form, with the disc hidden and a body free of traditional buttons. Inside it integrates a Hi-Fi system with dual CS43198 DAC, headphone amplifiers and Bluetooth aptX HD; it also allows music playback from USB and digital transfer of CDs.

With SPLIT, on the other hand, the project becomes more dynamic. The CD player is modular and can be used together with the speaker or on its own. A magnetic system allows the two elements to be separated and their use adjusted depending on the moment and the space. The result is an object that doesn’t have a single, definitive configuration, but can change along with whoever uses it.

If COVER works through subtraction and SPLIT through modularity, WABI takes yet another path. The all-in-one turntable openly draws on wabi-sabi aesthetics and combines a wood-inspired finish with a contemporary structure. It comes with four integrated speakers, bidirectional Bluetooth and an adjustable tonearm counterweight.

At the opposite extreme is PLAY PRO, which looks instead to color and Memphis culture. Simple geometries and bright tones turn the turntable into an element capable of shaping the room around it, closer to a piece of furniture than to traditional audio equipment. Here too the technology remains present, but it’s set inside a form meant to be looked at.

TINYL isn’t trying to make something nostalgic feel “new,” but rather to rethink the role of musical objects. CDs and vinyl belong to a physical dimension made of covers, gestures, surfaces and listening time; TINYL tries to bring that dimension back into contemporary interiors through objects that don’t want to be mere technical tools.

During Interior Lifestyle Tokyo, the brand also set up a listening space where visitors could choose a CD, put on headphones and start playback themselves. A simple gesture, but a meaningful one: at a time when music is often reduced to a continuous, invisible stream, TINYL goes back to building a small ritual around listening, made of objects, space and time.