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CES 2013: Analogue Audio - Part 1 (Hi-Fi+)
|Many listeners assumed that ours is the era of digital audio and yet it seems that more people than ever (at least in recent decades) are enjoying LP playback than ever before. As evidence of ...read more -
Artemis Labs SA-1 Turntable and TA-1 Tonearm (Hi-Fi+)
|Frank Schröder – the designer of the Artemis Labs turntable and tonearm – is something of an authority figure when it comes to vinyl. In fact, he’s a walking, talking vinyl Wikipedia. So on the ...read more -
Munich 2012, Part 1 (Vinyl)
|Despite being more subdued than most years, High End at the Munich M.O.C is still the high point in the audiophile show calendar. Two exhibition halls, two atria and four corridors of the latest in ...read more -
Kuzma 12" Stabi S-12 Turntable and Stogi S-12 Arm (Hi-Fi+ 80)
|No matter what kind of turntable you use, like or prefer, there’s something about the Kuzma Stabi S that will always attract. It’s that well-engineered minimalism – just a brass T-bar (inherently rigid and not ...read more -
Bergmann Magne Airbearing Turntable/Tonearm Comes to the U.S.
|(Editorial note: AVguide has learned that, for CES 2011, Aaudio Imports will be bringing the impressive Bergmann Magne Airbearing Turntable/Tonearm system to the U.S. Below, we provide an Aaudio Imports-supplied description of the Bergmann, plus ...read more -
Bergmann Sindre Turntable & Arm (Hi-Fi+)
|Air-bearing tonearms are rare, air-bearing turntables are very rare. The combination, especially from one company, is almost consigned to history. So Bergmann's Sindre pairing is one of the most important new decks to have hit ...read more -
VPI Classic 1 Turntable (Hi-Fi+)
|When the late, great Edgar Villchur designed the three-point suspended sub-chassis turntable, first seen in the compact shape of the AR-XA, he could have little dreamt of the dominant effect his design would create across ...read more -
Well Tempered Amadeus GT Turntable & Tonearm (Hi-Fi+)
|The Amadeus GT truly is a wonderful machine to behold: a record player whose design elegantly combines genuine innovation and extreme pragmatism… and a complete absence of BS. Its designer, William Firebaugh has worked for ...read more -
RMAF Day One: First looks and First Watts
|Nelson Pass’ latest project is the First Watt J2 power amplifier. This $4,000 stereo model is a 25 watt design, running entirely in Class A mode. The simple two-stage circuit sports JFET devices at the ...read more -
"Music Matters" at Bjorn's: The Rega Research Demonstration
|Rega Research: Santa Fe Room, Bjorn's Audio - Video, San Antonio Click here for an overview of the "Music Matters" event at Bjorn's: www.avguide.com/blog/1st-annual-“music-matters”-event-bjorn’s-audio-–-video-san-antonio Chad Harper, account manager for The Sound Organisation (U.S. distributor for ...read more -
The Kuzma 4POINT Tonearm
|NIH; the acronym that stands for “Not Invented Here” might better be expressed as “Never Invented Here” when it comes to hi-fi. For every company that rejects out of hand any idea that they didn’t ...read more -
Kuzma Stabi S Turntable and Stogi S Tonearm
|My dad, now retired, is a mechanical engineer, and from looking over his shoulder throughout his career I learned that the field could be a strange and wonderful marriage of art and science. Great designers ...read more -
Nottingham Space 294 Turntable and Ace-Space 294 Tonearm
|I first became curious about Nottingham Analogue Studios (NAS) turntables and tonearms after reading Stephan Harrell’s favorable 2002 review of the NAS Space Deck ’table/arm combo in Issue 138. What appealed to me was Harrell’s ...read more