A number of critical adjustments must be made each time a cartridge is fitted to a tonearm. These adjustments are vitally important in getting the most out of your records and stylus. Let’s look at them in the order I normally set them, this is a sequence I apply to all turntables that visit the […]

No, a good, well-set-up vinyl playback system should be almost silent and exhibit no audible hum. This is one of the great revelations about vinyl that folks discover on the typical journey from basic equipment to more aspirational gear. The short version is that, if you haven’t listened to a serious vinyl rig, you need

Not if you care about sound quality and preserving your vinyl! Funky Furniture Radiograms and stereograms, with few exceptions, are not hi-fi equipment. These are furniture pieces that play music. This was their original design intent, and they work well in this role but don’t expect more of them. The problems are varied, but generally

Yes, cartridges are a critically important part of the chain, just as important as the turntable itself. Cartridges are transducers, like microphones, headphones and speakers. You may already realise just how much each of these contributes sonically. Precision Cartridges do incredible work, converting minuscule groove modulations, via the stylus and cantilever, into tiny electrical signals,

No! Never buy or use Crosleys or other cheap plastic record players if you care about your records and how they sound. Cheap plastic turntables like Crosleys destroy vinyl due to their crude engineering and super-low-quality cartridge. The gems in these cheap styli – diamond or sometimes sapphire, have terrible profiles, are often poorly polished