Join me as I repair and service this lovely VPI HW-19 Mark 3 belt drive turntable with SME IV tonearm! Welcome back to a shorter article today about this VPI HW-19 Mark 3 / SME IV tonearm combo. I promised the owner I would write this one up, and as it’s only from December 2025, […]
Join me as I service what I think is one of the most beautiful high-performance turntables of all time, the Yamaha GT-2000L. OK, so what is a Yamaha GT-2000L, I hear you ask. Well, it’s a regular near-30kg Yamaha GT-2000 direct drive turntable, a favourite I’ve written about many times, but with a light (maybe
It’s turntable time again, so let’s look at the classic Denon DP-30L direct drive turntable for the first time in 8 years! Welcome back, everyone, as we take a brief and probably overdue look at another of my favourite turntables, the venerable Denon DP-30L. I last wrote about the Denon DP-30L back in 2017 in
Join me as I service and revive another lovely Marantz 6300 direct drive turntable! Welcome back during one of my busiest times of the year. I hope you enjoy this article about the gorgeous Marantz 6300 direct drive turntable, surely one of the most beautiful turntables from the golden era of vinyl. My review of
The Yamaha GT-2000 is one of my favourite golden-era turntables. Let’s take one of the first published looks inside this great deck. It’s true, I do love the Yamaha GT-2000 direct drive turntable and have written about the model several times. I’ve reviewed a Yamaha GT-2000 and documented replacing the audio cable with a custom-made
If you love high-end turntables and a good story, you’ll love my new reference turntable resurrection project – coming soon! The resurrection of this reference turntable has taken me a year and involved plenty of pain, suffering and obstacles. It’s been totally worth it though. Bringing this extraordinary, heavyweight vinyl playback machine back to life
Every so often, a customer brings me something that reminds me just how much I love vintage hi-fi. The Dual 1219 idler drive turntable is just such a thing. The Dual 1219 idler drive turntable is a relic from an era when almost everything was made out of metal and wood. The Dual 1219 is
