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.
Come and take a deep dive with me as I inspect and clean some really tasty cartridges! Some claim USB microscopes are unsuitable for cartridge and stylus inspection, but I’ve used a good USB scope for years, and the results are impressive. I should note, however, that my background provides me with considerable experience in […]
The Denon DP-62L direct-drive turntable is an often overlooked gem. 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 nicely” and that’s what I thought back in 2017 when I worked on this Denon DP-62L. Hailing from almost the end
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
Take a look at this beautiful Accuphase AC-2 moving coil cartridge. It has a broken cantilever and will 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 fabulously stiff. UPDATE! She has
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
It’s true, I have too many turntables, including a couple of end-game machines, so sadly, I have to let my beloved Kenwood KD-600 direct-drive turntable go. I’ve been working on a secret project here @ Liquid Audio, a statement, end-game turntable resurrection. That project is now complete, details to follow, but because of this, my
