The whole record player market has gone bonkers. IMO it is down to fashion and the fact that it seems the dearer an item is the better the punters think it must be. Most recent turntables are styling excercises with pseudo scientific babble for justification. The prices are truly ludicrous for most ...

My first system was a Garrard SL75 turntable with a ceramic cartridge wired in mono to the microphone input of my valve mono reel to reel recorder/amp/speaker. I went stereo whilst at uni, same turntable in a homemade plinth and lid with Empire cartridge into a heathkit amp driving Wharfedale 8"...

Well the digital interconnect between transport and DAC makes a lot of difference and that I presume is sending digital parcels. Aha, not at all. Digital audio went into production when digital was still quite young and most of the electronic components involved was still at the very limit of their...

Hey Jerry, that's a great idea and I'm really looking forward to seeing how the life of a boxswapper unfolds. What caught my attention in particular in your first installment is the PowerInspired AG1500 mains regenerator. I'd really like to try a mains regenerator at home and see if it a) gets rid ...