Recent content by Ed Selley

And a display like the countdown timer for stolen nuclear weapons in nineties action films. The knob is YUGE too. It's a genuinely satisfying thing to use and interact with.

I'm relieved I drink less than post divorce me but, fuck me, occasionally I was on 🔥🔥.

Yes- it and the motor are mechanically identical (the Naia unit has a three belt pulley rather than the two belt one on the P10). Rega, with standard honesty/bluntness states they can't make a better one. It's backordered to the eyeballs because people have known about it since Feb. At the...

Just the greatest French electronica album of all time; no biggie;

Been busy of late. First up this arrived; Which meant, as it looks so similar, it was only fair and right to get this running as well; ...and run them as a pair to work out why one costs more than twice as much as the other; To make this more entertaining, Rega also sent this; And the...

Less debris. Heart rate down in the low 200s now which is good 👍🏻.

I'm too shaken to clean things right now OK 💀

Just clenched so hard fitting this, I'm not sure I still actually have a sphincter. No, of course it doesn't have a stylus guard. Why would a hand built, naked generator cart that costs £6,000 need one of those? 🤡

Fun as the Vertere XtraX is, I've not stuck it here because it's a bit on the ridiculous side. This on the other hand is a bit more relevant and interesting; I've had a Gold Note Vasari Gold for some years. In the great inflationary spiral of the last few years, the fact you can pick one up...

Hello all, long time no see. Anyway... So yeah... an Imperium Motor Drive. It was sent 'to see how I get on with it' which is as cruel and unusual punishment as I think has ever been devised. It turned up with an IsoShelf and three Isolator feet too because why not 💀. Neither were they done...

If (and I grant you, it's an 'if' that can be seen from space), these are the only LP12s that ever have these features on them (and curving the edges of the armboard which is now integral with the subchassis would be the single largest production mod Linn has ever done because it would be the...

The Xerxes has returned to Roksan. Other things have passed through in the meantime but today I returned to the flattest of flat Earth principles; One of Linn's finest bouncy boxes is here for a while. There used to be a sort of 'good, better, best' approach to the LP12 range but it's all got...

Strange times chez Selley today as the Vertere gets to meet its Dad; Vertere is owned by Touraj Moghaddam who is responsible for the bulk of the design work at the company. Before Vertere, Moghaddam was a co-founder of Roksan where he designed the Xerxes turntable. Because the hifi industry is...

*coughs* £2,749.

Like a Cylon interceptor with a stylus; This is the Audio Technica ART20 announced today. A sample has been here for a bit in preparation for a review and it is starting to do some impressive things (and, it has to be said, some mildly perplexing ones too).