EAT C-SHARP TURNTABLE WITH ORTOFON QUINTET BLACK CARTRIDGE
September 19, 2015 Comments Off on EAT C-SHARP TURNTABLE WITH ORTOFON QUINTET BLACK CARTRIDGE
Isolation is always something to consider when purchasing a turntable and finding the right location for it in your listening room. While the C-Sharp has internal damping within its sandwich chassis as well as elastomer-damped feet, care should be taken with its placement. The top chassis is a bit lively when touched or tapped—enough to hear sound through the speakers. This liveliness can result in the ’table being susceptible to airborne or robust floorborne vibrations. Acoustic feedback, especially from powerful bass-heavy transients, can potentially cause turntable systems to oscillate.
NAD C 556 review
September 18, 2015 Comments Off on NAD C 556 review
Elsewhere, dynamics are strong and timing is tight. Put it together and you have a rounded performance that ticks all the right boxes.
Read more at http://www.whathifi.com/nad/c-556/review#juctPjFFoGRvQrXT.99yyy
Acoustic Signature Triple X turntable & TA-1000 tonearm
September 17, 2015 Comments Off on Acoustic Signature Triple X turntable & TA-1000 tonearm
The platter requires nearly half a minute—26.95 seconds—to go from 0 to 33 1/3rpm. Another 14 seconds are required to go from there to 45rpm—yet, interestingly, a full 17 seconds are needed to slow back down to 33 1/3, indicating that the massive platter’s moment of inertia plays a more significant role than the motor in maintaining correct speed.
VPI Prime Turntable Review
September 16, 2015 Comments Off on VPI Prime Turntable Review
The Prime’s arm has two further features of note. The first is that while a conventional arm has an effective length of nine inches, the Prime uses that interesting Plinth to extend the armboard length away from the platter and means that it has an effective length of ten inches. The thinking goes that with extra length comes a reduction in distortion from the action of the pivot. This has to be balanced against the increased length adding mass and other issues to the performance but VPI has thought about this too. The Prime’s arm therefore is a 3D printed affair that takes the length and resonances into account in the design- while also costing less than a equivalent metal one.
Technics highlights from IFA 2015
September 13, 2015 Comments Off on Technics highlights from IFA 2015
Introducing The VPI Avenger Turntable, Harry Weisfeld, VPI Industries, Capital Audiofest
September 12, 2015 Comments Off on Introducing The VPI Avenger Turntable, Harry Weisfeld, VPI Industries, Capital Audiofest
Pro-Ject Xtension 10 Evolution
September 4, 2015 Comments Off on Pro-Ject Xtension 10 Evolution
” For more humble folk it’s largely an unspoken message. A few make with the face of smug satisfaction whilst others just get on with enjoying vinyl’s most cherished qualities: its tangibility, the cover art, the act of tipping the record from its sleeve without touching the surface before dropping it onto the platter and lowering the tonearm lever. The needle hitting the record’s surface and finding its groove is a delicious moment. Vinyl is the slow food of music playback.”
Lenco L-90 review
September 2, 2015 Comments Off on Lenco L-90 review
” Detail and definition are good enough to make sense of what’s going on. It’s a pleasant performance, easily better than many similarly priced CD players we’ve heard.
Read more at http://www.whathifi.com/lenco/l-90/review#AuOCh2BiOMSGWvjV.99
AIR FORCE 1 TURNTABLE AND GRAHAM PHANTOM ELITE TONEARM – REVIEW
August 29, 2015 Comments Off on AIR FORCE 1 TURNTABLE AND GRAHAM PHANTOM ELITE TONEARM – REVIEW
” Like the AF1, the Elite is a true statement product in which you feel that every aspect of design, execution, and performance has been thoroughly thought through and addressed. The Elite retails at $12,000 with a 9-inch wand; the 10-inch may be substituted for an additional $500, the 12-inch for an additional $1000, each with a different counterweight appropriate to the added weight.”
AVID DIVA II TURNTABLE – REVIEW
August 28, 2015 Comments Off on AVID DIVA II TURNTABLE – REVIEW
“The overall effect is that music works more effectively, ‘Anitra’s Dance’ from the Marriner/St Martin-in-the Fields account of Grieg’s Peer Gynt Incidental Music [EMI] does feel more like a dance than simply a set-piece, and ‘In the Hall of the Mountain King’ builds not only in tempo, but also in intensity. That Decca Rhapsody in Blue also contains a recording of Copland’s ‘Fanfare for the Common Man’ which, via the Diva II, has not only a sense of space and distance to the opening fanfare, but the sheer power of the timpani is quite arresting; they have impact in the truest sense yet, despite their power, the timpani don’t disturb or unbalance the performance. The Diva II keeps its head while lesser tables are losing theirs.”
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