They say … Roksan has long been admired and respected for its ground breaking turntables and tonearms, many of which are industry ‘icons’. The new SARA Tonearm is set to build on Roksan’s reputation with its performance, ease of use and radical design. With demand for high performance vinyl replay continuing to rise, the SARA […]
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The Ortofon MC-2000 may just have been the most impractical cartridge to be unleashed upon the audio community for some years. With a high compliance (20cu) that made it ill-suited for most tonearms, it also had a preposterously low signal output of 50 microvolts, which gave new meaning to the terms hum and noise. Few MC preamps […]
Q: Are Pro-Ject turntables made in China? A: “These new turntables are being hand-built in Germany. The Pro-Ject Automat series of turntables include the latest in high-quality automatic turntable mechanism that’s easy to set up and use.”
We are told … Company founded on the 11th of February 1993 in Southend-on-Sea, Essex, UK as Raftmill Ltd. but changed its name to Fane Acoustics after buying the trademarks and other assets of the bankrupt Fane Loudspeakers company. Restarted production of loudspeaker drivers in the Leeds, Yorkshire factory that Fane Loudspeakers had been using […]
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Originally published here in February 2006 Howard, is it true that way back you were the owner of the World’s first fully balanced vinyl replay system? Possibly the first; certainly one of the first three ….. so I’m told. I purchased the Brinkman 10.5 tonearm before I became a dealer, and paid £2,200 from the […]
They say: Occasionally, Helius will acquire some of its past products. There are primarily two reasons, the first is to maintain a stock of older parts for purposes of repairing the classic tonearms. We do this because it is uneconomical in today’s CNC machnining environment to have small numbers of the larger components machined, so […]
We are told … Tiny manufacturer of turntables based in Hersham, Walton-On-Thames, in Surrey, Britain. Founded in the late 70’s to commercialise an unusual high end turntable/tonearm combination that was developed at the Cranfield Institute of Technology, but it appears that the company in the end only shipped the turntable in the form of the […]
They say: The Aurora is the new mid-priced Helius tonearm, and fills the gap the Aureus arm used to occupy. Now in full production, the Aurora is available as either a 9” or 10” arm, (12” available by special request ) with choices of single strand silver or O2 free internal wire. The internal wires […]
Looks to us like a fit and finish up with the very, very best from Japan and Germany – and it’s British! We are awaiting a press release and RRP and so – watch this space.
They say: Upgrades can be divided into two arenas, electrical and mechanical. The most popular upgrade is to the wiring and cables. The standard internal wire is copper, so the first upgrade we offer is to change this to single strand silver. The wire is 0.25mm in diameter with both channels being twisted into pairs. […]
John Atkinson writes: Someone, I forget who it was, once wrote a perceptive essay on how in any field of human endeavor, apparent perfection is attained only when that field is in the process of being superseded. The Palace at Versailles was built when the power of the French monarchy was well into decline; Wagner’s […]
Previously published on June 19, 2013 Overview: In 1978, in the early days of Subjective Audio I sold quite a few of these. And for a while I always had one on demo. The reasons why people bought them, and the reason I had one are, well …. not much to do with sound quality. […]
They tell us … While re-thinking the new MkV we felt it was very important to maintain the design signature of the original Paris turntable. Everything else is a total redesign! The Oracle mechanical design concepts are always intimately linked to the overlapping of different materials interacting within a same assembly for an optimal control […]
After years of hard work and development, we are pleased to present our brand new analog turntable, the STABLE 33.2 Mk2. This turntable is inspired by our state-of-the-art high-end model STABLE 33.1. By staying true to our values, we achieved the little miracle of creating a high-quality analog turntable. The STABLE 33.2 Mk2 is a […]
They tell us … Referencing the esteemed turntables of the golden age of Hi-Fi, the GT-5000 expands on this heritage in the pursuit of pure musicality. Including a pure straight and short arm for absolute transparency and openness in sound, balanced signal path delivering absolute purity in signal transmission and design reflective of the GT […]
Hello Howard. I have been meaning to ask you for some time what has happened with your association with the Funk firm products. I was also particularly looking forward to your proposed interview with Arthur. In my opinion Funk remain one of the most musically credible and musically convincing turntable designs of all time. However […]
