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VPI Avenger Turntable
|Ever-presents are a rarity in audio systems – and are almost unheard of in those systems used by reviewers. Yet ever since I graduated from an LP12 in the early ‘80s, first VPI’s turntables and ...read more -
Wilson Benesch GMT® ONE SYSTEM Turntable
|Official Press Release Wilson Benesch HQ, Sheffield, England 6th July 2021 Wilson Benesch was founded in 1989 following two-years of research and development. In 1990 the company unveiled its first product, the Wilson Benesch Turntable. ...read more -
EMT JSD Pure Black cartridge and STX-5/10 step-up transformer
|There are a lot of brands with a long-standing reputation in the vinyl world, but few of them have quite as commanding a standing as EMT. Founded in Germany in 1940 as a maker of ...read more -
Naim Audio Solstice turntable – not quite a review
|While everyone is lining up to experience the Naim Solstice turntable for the first time, and people are finally able to start both hearing it and reading previews (and our own review), for me… this ...read more -
Naim Audio Solstice Special Edition turntable system
|Editor's note: We have one of the only samples of the Naim Solstice to have left the factory thus far in for review. The review will be published in our Issue 197, available soon. Suffice ...read more -
Acoustic Solid Wood MPX turntable
|Located in Altsdorf, a small town not far from Nuremberg, Acoustic Solid is a German engineering company hand-crafting high-end turntables. It offers two lines – ‘Classic’ and ‘Aluminium’. The MPX is one of the Classic ...read more -
Hana Umami Red moving coil cartridge
|Hana cartridges have a well-deserved reputation as giant killers. But what if Hana made a cartridge that had ‘big hitter’ price and specs? That’s where the Umami Red comes in. Made by Japanese cartridge experts ...read more -
Vertere Tempo motor drive
|From the Vertere press release Vertere Acoustics London. 14 April 2021. Touraj Moghaddam Vertere's founder and chief designer announced that the new Tempo motor drive had commenced shipping. Tempo is a new generation' digital' motor ...read more -
Linn Krane tonearm
|From the Linn Products presss release Further to the August launch of new Majik DSM, Linn has now announced an update for its Majik LP12: the entry level variant of the iconic turntable will shortly ...read more -
VPI ANNOUNCES NEW PRIME 21 TURNTABLES
|From the Renaissance Audio press release VPI’s stunning new Prime 21 turntables build upon the success of the award-winning Prime series to deliver a vastly improved performance and offer a super-simple set-up procedure. The Prime ...read more -
Vertere Acoustics DG-1 turntable
|Vertere Acoustics is a British high-end audio manufacturer whose founder and CEO is none other than the famous audio designer/entrepreneur Touraj Moghaddam, who also co-founded the firm Roksan. Moghaddam is among other things a veteran ...read more -
Thorens TD 1601 suspended semi-automatic turntable
|As a teenager my close friend had a Thorens TD 160 with a SME Series 2 arm. I was jealous. All that I could muster from my meagre pocket money was a Trio KD1033B, and ...read more -
Mark Levinson No. 515 turntable
|It says something about the state of the vinyl revival that established high-end brands which existed in the day of vinyl supremacy are building its first-ever turntables. That is the case with the Mark Levinson ...read more -
Technics SL-1210GAE Limited Edition
|Editor's note: Like much of the EU press, we were invited to an exclusive Vimeo Webinar to present this product, which would have normally been launched at Munich High-End. Obviously, we were not able to ...read more -
MoFi UltraDeck +M turntable package
|MoFi or Mobile Fidelity as they started out have a long history of making audiophile quality pressings of popular albums. They were surfing the crest of the vinyl wave back in the late seventies and ...read more