YOU ARE GROUNDED, SON: Turntable grounding opinions?

Hi hoping to be spoon fed some nuggets of advice on grounding from a knowledgable fishie or 2 My turntable has a grounding wire attached to the underside of the bearing assembly, as well as the more traditional ground wire alongside the tonearm cable. I have 2 issues to try and fix – one is […]

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VINYL: Watch a stunning microscopic slow-motion video of a needle on a record

Anton Spice writes: An electron microscope captures the moment stylus meets groove in slow-motion. The good folk behind Youtube channel Applied Science have shared an incredible new video of a stylus riding the grooves of a vinyl record in ultra-slow motion using an electron microscope. Cutting off small sections of an LP to fit the […]

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VERTERE ACOUSTICS / New Reference Tonearm Gen III: News

Touraj Moghaddam, Vertere’s founder and chief designer, gave a detailed description and explanation of the new third-generation of Vertere Reference Tonearm. Some eleven years after the launch of the original Tonearm – one that was considered genuinely revolutionary – the third generation brings additional flexibility, ease of use/fine-tuning and, of course, improved performance.   The […]

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