You’ll find lots of articles about turntables & vinyl on my website. You’ll also find stuff about records and analogue systems that incorporate vinyl.
Merry Christmas and a big thank you to our customers, subscribers, friends and family. A huuuge thank you to all for helping make 2021 another fantastic year. Here’s hoping this Christmas message finds readers well as we near the end of another very busy year. As usual, Liquid Audio will be closing for the festive …
Some say USB microscopes are no good for cartridge and stylus inspection. I’ve used a good USB scope for years and I think you’ll agree, the results are pretty good. I should point out that I have some experience in microscopy. I was lucky enough to work with the best Olympus and Zeiss optical microscopes …
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The Denon DP-62L direct-drive turntable is an often overlooked gem, less well-known than many contemporaries. In my endeavours to bring you interesting equipment you may not be aware of, let’s take a closer look. I often work on turntables where I find myself thinking “If I didn’t have other decks, this would do really nicely” …
The Yamaha GT-2000 is one of my favourite turntables. Let’s take one of the first-ever close-up looks inside this great deck from the golden era. It’s true, I do love the Yamaha GT-2000 direct-drive turntable and have written about them several times. In that article, I reviewed a Yamaha GT-2000 and documented replacing the audio …
Take a look at this beautiful Accuphase AC-2 moving coil cartridge. It belongs to a customer, has a broken cantilever and will soon be repaired. The Accuphase AC-2 is a high-performance moving coil cartridge from 1980, utilising a tubular sapphire cantilever and line-contact diamond. Jewelled cantilevers like those made from ruby, sapphire and diamond are …
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 …
Hi folks, check out this lovely Technics SL-23 belt-drive turntable for sale, fully serviced and ready to go. Yes, the Technics SL-23 belt-drive deck is one of the best of the affordable belt-drive decks from the golden era. In fact, people love these decks so much that the SL-23 has a near-perfect 5-star rating on …
