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I’ve come to think that phono pre-amp upgrades are the least understood and most underrated of vinyl system upgrades. I’ve made three phono upgrades in my vinyl journey and each revealed more than the one before. What has been your experience with phono upgrades that you’d want to share? How...

I put on a record today and was surprised by how much the tonearm moved from side to side the record spun. I enjoyed the record anyway! I know that Nakamichi created a couple of classic decks in the Eighties to address this issue, but no manufacturer has really seemed to take on this mantle...

I’ve had two older amps recapped by Peter Williams at Quirk Audio in the past two years. Peter does great work, but now I’m faced with the decision on which amp to keep in my main setup. To help with the comparison over the summer, I’d like to get an amp/source selector switch. Do any of you...

I've been using a Record Doctor V RCM for about 3 years with few issues; it does a better job cleaning than most other manual methods like the Spin Clean. However, something is rattling in the Record Doctor now. I remember from a while ago that there is a vertical PVC fluid collector pipe in...

...if you scramble out on a Sunday night to the last open record store in town to buy another copy of a Tone Poet you already own because you fumbled your first copy, lightly scratched it, and needed to have a pristine copy. o_O

I read this review excerpt today in amazement... "Having spent too much time of late comparing different stylus profiles and cantilever materials, suffice it to say the UltraGold's recipe of nude Shibata stylus, boron cantilever, neodymium magnet and PC-OCC wiring could just as easily describe...

I thought I’d try out the RPM app on my iPhone to test my VPI Traveler turntable and what I found was concerning: The table appears to be almost 1% fast at 0.80%. The spec is +/- 0.1%. The wow and flutter is 0.20% which is right about at spec at <0.2%. Different runs have been consistent in...

In an earlier post, I shared my surprise that a record I picked up turned out to be unexpectedly clear and clean due to the Direct Metal Mastering process: It turns out that several of the titles in my collection have benefited from direct metal mastering. Almost all of them I have were...