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VPI PLAYER – THE AFFORDABLE ALL-IN-ONE
|The Player all-in-one turntable has been lovingly engineered in New Jersey by the US masters of vinyl replay, VPI. Equipped with a cartridge, a built-in phono stage and headphone amplifier the VPI Player is…ready to ...read more -
VPI Industries Prime Signature turntable
|When it was launched back at the end of 2016, the VPI Prime changed the game, proving to be one of the best turntables we’d heard at anything close to the price. So impressive, in ...read more -
SME Model 15A turntable
|Not a lot seems to change at SME’s HQ in the picturesque town of Steyning, West Sussex. Men in white coats have been building high quality turntables and arms there for so long that several ...read more -
Vertere Acoustics MG-1 turntable, SG-1 arm, and PHONO-1 phono stage
|Even by the standards of the average workaholic, Touraj Moghaddam of Vertere Acoustics has had a busy few years. First came the cables, then that tonearm (the one that costs as much as a new ...read more -
Helius Designs Alexia turntable and Omega tonearm
|One of the great woes of this period in the audio industry is that we seem to be coming to the end of the Age of the Personality. The audio world used to be littered ...read more -
Meet Your Maker - Heinz Roher of Thorens
|Thorens is one of the grand names in audio. The company’s began making turntables almost back when the rest of the world first started making records. 1903 to be precise, and this wasn’t even Thorens ...read more -
Munich High End 2017 – Analogue Sources
|Most Promising Newcomers Acoustic Signature Merlin turntable & tone arm In the pantheon of fine turntable/tone arm rigs from the German firm Acoustic Signature, the entry-level models have traditionally been affordable, but not too many ...read more -
Systemdek 3D precision turntable
|History is a funny thing. It can be positive – or it can be negative. Generally speaking, saying that you “have history” with someone, isn’t good. Nor is it a fixed or finite truth, famously ...read more -
Gold Note Giglio turntable with B-5.1 arm and Donatello Red cartridge
|In the oft-parochial world of audio, some good brands can go almost unnoticed. So it is with Gold Note: the Italian company commands a strong reputation in many parts of the world as a ‘stem ...read more -
Meet Your Maker: Marc Gomez of SAT
|The Swedish Analog Technologies tonearm caused quite a stir when first seen a couple of years ago. Primarily that stir came about because of the arm’s very high price (it is one of just two ...read more -
Origin Live Sovereign turntable with Enterprise-C tonearm
|The British have two very galling character flaws. We are not good self-promoters, and we love a bit self-deprecation. So, when it comes to a turntable brand like Origin Live and it’s flagship tonearm and ...read more -
Hi-Fi+ Awards 2016: Analogue Audio
|Turntable of the Year Origin Live Sovereign The Origin Live Sovereign is a belt-driven turntable design featuring a high tolerance bearing, and a non-suspended chassis sitting on three adjustable towers. The platter is a composite ...read more -
Stylus Show 2017
|From the Chester Group press release: The UK’s first show devoted to all things Vinyl, Stylus returns for a second year and moves to a new venue: the MacDonald Hotel & Spa in Manchester. Taking ...read more -
Transfiguration Proteus cartridge (again)
|I’m not saying that Transfiguration cartridges are like buses, but no sooner have you reviewed one than another comes along, often with the same name! Clearly, Seiji Yoshioka who designs the Transfiguration cartridges can’t stop ...read more -
Reed Muse 3C turntable and 3P arm
|After a year of presidential elections and referendums, one thing is patently obvious: as a species, we can’t agree on anything. The same holds for turntable design; belt-drive, friction drive, direct drive... arguments of the ...read more