The Garrard 301 is back! (sort of) | High End 2019
Garrard, the legendary turntable company founded more than 50 years ago is back. Well, not exactly back as it was not entirely extinct. Garrards were still made by Loricraft [...]
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SweetVinyl Sugar Cube | AXPONA 2019
by Paul Elliott Full Disclosure, 100% Transparency, no Redaction. I am a SweetVinyl Sugar Cube beta tester. I think it was 3 years ago, I walked into their room full of [...]
Thin White Rope LP Remasters
Thin White Rope As an expatriate of the People’s Republic of Davis, CA [1984-1993], I must first acknowledge the appearance, at least, of a conflict of interest in [...]
The Voice That Is presents Vertere Acoustics
For our US readers in Pensylvania, Maryland, Delaware, and New Jersey — mark your calendars. Doug White, of The Voice That Is, in cooperation with the Philadelphia Area [...]
Florida Audio Expo Preview: Sea, Sound, and Sun
Bitchin’ Stereos In Paradise! It’s been a record cold winter throughout most of the continental U.S., with only a few regions escaping the Arctic Outbreak of 2019 [...]
Thales Simplicity II Tonearm Review
On March 27th, 1983, the New York Times published an article titled “Sound; Tonearms: Is Linear Better?”. The article read like a technical paper, more sophisticated than [...]
Newvelle Records | The Deep End
If you’re a music lover who is older than 35 or 40, you’ve probably joined the Columbia House Record Club at some point in your life. I joined for the first time back in [...]
RMAF 2018: Jeff Rowland Design Group and the Ultimate Phono Pre for Multiple Tonearms
Lucien Pichette of the Jeff Rowland Design Group is an old friend of ours. He grew up in Montrose, Colorado, where Colleen and I lived for a few years, and I used to drive [...]
Audio Advice: Music Matters 2018, and 40th Anniversary Celebration
Audio Advice celebrates forty years in business by pulling out all the stops during their annual Music Matters event. Music Matters, is an annual celebration of music [...]
ZYX UNIverse Optimum 1Ω MC Cartridge | Review
Astonishment, personified US $16,995.00. There, I’ve said it, in bold. That’s nearly seventeen thousand dollars for a phono cartridge. I still remember the first [...]
