Articles
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EAT E-Flat turntable and tonearm
|One of the big problems in 21st Century audio is a lack of long-term memory. A good product may have a life-cycle stretching a decade or more, but just a few short months after it’s ...read more -
Kuzma Stabi M, 4 POINT, and CAR-50 vinyl front-end
|There was a time when radio stations actually played records. Yep – the flat(ish) black things with musical squiggles pressed into their surfaces. To do that, they needed record players: not just any record players, ...read more -
CES: Highlights from Venetian Floor 30 – Electronics, Source Components, and Servers/Streamers
|Most CES high-end audio exhibits are clustered in the aforementioned upper floors of the Venetian Hotel, although by tradition some high-end headphone manufacturers continue to exhibit in the LVCC’s South Hall. Added to this, there ...read more -
Sneak Peak: Vertere RG-1 turntable and SG-1 tonearm
|A couple of years ago, a cable company made a tonearm. That is interesting enough in its own right, but the tonearm it made cost £27,000, making it the most expensive production tonearm in history. ...read more -
AMG Viella 12 turntable and arm
|Yes, it may be German, but it is not that AMG. This one stands for Analog Manufaktur Germany and is the maker of an extremely nice all-aluminium turntable and arm called the V12 (technically the ...read more -
Analogue Works Turntable One turntable and Design/Build/Listen The Wand tonearm
|Turntable maker Tom Fletcher left a considerable legacy in his passing. There’s Nottingham Analogue of course, which Tom handed on to family and co-workers as his illness progressed. Then there is (was?) Fletcher Audio that ...read more -
T.H.E Show, Newport Beach, 2014 Turntables
|It’s always a pleasure to see so many turntables on display at a show. The dark days of a dozen years ago when vinyl sales were flat and everyone was considering their ‘final vinyl’ option ...read more -
Show Report: AXPONA 2014 - Analogue Audio
|Normally Hi-Fi+ show reports are presented in prose form with illustrations, but for this section we will take more of an image-intensive ‘Postcards from…’ approach. Thus, this is not an exhaustive report, but rather presents ...read more -
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Consonance Die Walküre turntable and T988 tonearm
|Consonance’s Die Walküre is the biggest record player I’ve encountered at this price point. A rounded triangle shape that, when coupled with its aluminium subchassis, will accommodate up to three tonearms. Starting at the bottom ...read more -
CES 2014: Analogue
|Given all the fuss about the ever-increasing interest in all things vinyl, you might have expected CES to be packed full of turntables. This wasn’t quite the case. Where two or three years ago, manufacturers ...read more -
Pro-ject Xtension 10 Evolution turntable
|We need to get this out in the open. There’s an inverted snobbery surrounding brands like Pro-Ject, Music Hall and Rega. Because these fine brands make fine inexpensive turntables by the palletload, there’s an idea ...read more -
Best of the Best - Nottingham Analogue Studios Space 294
|Some years back and writing for our US-based sister publication The Absolute Sound I had the opportunity to review the intensely iconoclastic and decidedly British Nottingham Analogue Studios Space 294 turntable and tonearm. Coming upon ...read more -
Roksan Xerxes.20Plus Turntable System
|Although our reviews are existential in nature (“I feel…” rather than “it does…”), we do try to take the personal element out of the story behind the product, but this time, it’s difficult. You see, ...read more -
Acoustic Signature Introduces "WOW!" Turntable
|(From an Acoustic Signature press release) Acoustic Signature introduced their newest turntable to the family of their German precision-engineered turntables. Music really does matter for these handcrafted vinyl-spinners made in Germany. The same proprietary ‘Tidorfolon’ ...read more