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A wee dram for Linn’s 40th
|Linn Products – without doubt the UK’s most important turntable manufacturer of recent times – is celebrating the 40th birthday of the company and its first product, with a special an very limited edition of ...read more -
Kuzma Stabi M turntable
|Designing one turntable is comparatively easy. Designing a range is much, much harder. You need to avoid making them too similar, but also making sure they aren’t too dissimilar. You cannot get away with ‘the ...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 -
Origin Live Aladdin Cartridge (Hi-Fi+)
|Origin Live is perhaps best known as a maker of tonearms. Those who know more about the brand know it produces a good range of turntables too. What’s perhaps less well known is it also ...read more -
Acoustic Signature Ascona Turntable
|The world of turntables is in a constant state of flux. Designs and philosophies come and go over the years, and what was once popular has no guarantee of staying that way. Not so long ...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 -
Digitise your Vinyl
|With the seemingly inexorable move to the use of a computer as an audio source, there has never been a more appropriate time to consider ripping your existing music. Ripping CDs is relatively easy – ...read more -
Rega RP6, Naim SuperUniti and Focal 1028Be system
|The co-mingling of Naim and Focal last year came as something of a surprise to many in the industry. How could two brands whose identities are so closely aligned with their places of origin coexist ...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 -
Funk Firm Little Super Deck turntable
|A couple of decades ago, the must-have affordable turntable was the Pink Triangle Little Pink Thing. Alongside the standard PT and the Anniversary, the entry-level LPT turntable was a simple design, but one that in ...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 -
Munich 2013 - Analogue Audio, Part 2 (Hi-Fi+)
|This is Part 2 of a two-part Hi-Fi+ report on new Analogue Audio components seen at the Munich High-End Show 2013. For the sake of simplicity, we present products in alphabetical order, organized by the ...read more -
Munich 2013 - Analogue Audio, Part 1 (Hi-Fi+)
|While many would say that ours is the age of high resolution digital audio the Munich High-End Show 2013 gave ample evidence that analogue audio and vinyl playback are not only alive and well, but ...read more -
Scheu Analog Slate, Tacco II, and MC Scheu S Turntable System (Hi-Fi+)
|Even without looking at the name, you know this is German through and through. Just the first look at the turntable convinces you that you are in the presence of Big German Audio of the ...read more -
Linn Kandid moving coil cartridge
|Glasgow, Scotland: Linn is demonstrating its commitment to the continued development and improvement of analogue sources with the introduction of the Kandid moving-coil, reference standard cartridge. Kandid represents an extensive and detailed development into cartridges ...read more