Linn ... the first company to abandon CD now has their new play everything system allied to their wonderful record player for a full spec music system.

http://www.linn.co.uk/systems/products/linn-ds/majik-dsm

Extending the functionality of Cambridge Audio's critically acclaimed integrated stereo Azur amplifiers and AV receivers are two phono pre-amplifiers. The entry-level 540P is a high quality Moving Magnet design featuring single-ended 'Class A' gain stages and discrete transistors instead of the more common integrated circuits. This gives less cross-talk and interference across the signal path. The 540P employs an active RIAA equalisation system. The rear panel benefits from gold plated input connectors to minimise signal path interference and reduce surface degradation. An external power supply comes as standard.

The 640P phono pre-amplifier (sometimes known as a phono stage) also uses superior amplification circuitry for its MM and MC stages to provide the lowest possible distortion and noise. In addition, the flagship model employs multi-parallel capacitors to achieve exceptional RIAA accuracy of only 0.3dB up to 50kHz and features a defeatable subsonic filter. The Azur 640P phono pre-amplifier employs a comprehensively specified Moving Magnet stage, as well as the higher gain needed for compatibility with high-end Moving Coil (MC) cartridges. This raft of technologies combines to offer a hugely dynamic, involving and open sound.

This humble little injection moulded moulded belt drive P Mount fully automatic turntable is a nostalgia trip back to my early retailing days in the seventies. Yet it still sells through several times a week.
A very neat device with switcheable built in Phono stage that can be plonked into a modern system and reintroduce you to the joys of vinyl.

Long the adversary ... Now gaining a slow foothold in Carlton Audio Visual.

The launch of the Debut turntable from Pro-Ject Audio Systems in the late 1990’s could not have been more fortuitous. Anticipating the resurgence of interest in vinyl record playback, Pro-Ject created a basic, yet performance driven turntable at an affordable price and the rest is history.

Does it seem unlikely that a Japanese Audio company would be releasing a new turntable into this digitally driven environment? Well Denon still acknowledge the strong presence of Vinyl in the audio enthusiast marketplace and have tied that and the need for digitisation together with this neat little offering.

Rega is not a company that likes to rush things. Whilst this fast pace world is obsessed with new formats and bigger numbers, Rega took 15 years to produce a CD player. But in a dramatic change in this 1080P world, Rega have released a new entry point turntable. This is a dramatic conflict of sensory reproduction techniques in a world of micro transistors, a music transducer with fewer parts than a cabinet piece...

As part of the amazing proliferation of Vinyl Long Playing Records we have introduced our first Project brand turntable into inventory. Part turn table, part amp, we have had many generation i requests for a record player that can be stand alone hooked up to a pair of loudspeakers.

That sounds like a description of a machine gun dosnt it, but actually this is one of the better turntable brands on the planet. This is the fully automatic Swiss made alternative to Rega. It actually will play 78 RPM records as well ... if you throw out any of those shellac discs one suspects you may be commiting a crime ...

With turntables in such a state of marketplace ascendancy it dosnt seem odd that I am writing about something that I believe I was selling in 1976.
This is the classic mid priced Japanese turntable that to be honest was always outpointed on sound quality by Rega and Thorens but has its niche because of fully automatic operation allied to a reasonable tonearm and cartridge with a good acoustic plinth design.

The Rega P3 has been the Crocodile of the vinyl world. When the mass extinction of Record Players occured in the 1980s under the meteoritic impact of Compact Disc this device simply hunkered down in the market place and got on with being sold to music lovers.

The Leema Elements phono stage is in a class of its own.

Yes, it's a tiny box.

Yes, it does big things.

It is on high rotation in the store so come in anytime for a listen or give us a call a

The PS Audio Phono stage takes moving magnet and moving coil cartridges, has selectable gain and impedance and single ended or balanced outputs.

It also has the biggest grounding post I have ever seen.

Here is the stunning new Rega RP6 turntable.

Sporting all sorts of devilishly nice analogue doodads, it is now in store and on demonstration.

This .75MV output cartridge is one of 500 made by AJ Van Den Hul.
Because he lives in the Netherlands he has to chop wood, he can't make a cartridge for three days after lumberjacking as the steadiness required on the hand is such that he is unable to do the coils.

This gorgeous spinner is on display in red ... striking beauty ...

Herewith Thorens own website for the TD309: Thorens 309 Official website

The Gyrodec SE is a plinthless version of the non-SE Gyrodec. Idenitcal in performance to the non-SE Gyrodec, the SE version represents a more affordable entry into the world of high-end turntables. A Universal cover to keep dust off the platter and tonearm is available, as is the full acrylic plinth and hinged lid can be added at a later date if so desired.

For those who worship at the Vinyl altar, the Gyrodec needs no introduction. Conceived in 1981, the Gyrodec has been one of the world's best selling turntables, not to mention one of the most recognisable. A suspended chasis, the Gyrodec has a wonderful liquid top end and pure midrange, and bass to die for. Surface noise and hash (not the kind you smoke) is rendered virutally inaudible. Unlike a CD player, this source component plays well below 20Hz and over 30KHz. It is something that needs to be experienced.

We are so excited by this. We love Rega for all sorts of reasons, professional and personal. We have indulged in their flagship P9 with ceramic platter and RB1000 and Atheta cartridge but it was ... very serious money.
Now we have this and it is bliss ... skeletal sub chassis and microtomic British engineering ... simply irresistable.
Triple layer platter specifically machined and secretly adhered by an English glass manufacturing company. The adhesive forms a layer of damping material in beetween each glass layer.
There are dual white drive belts onto a new metal sub platter with six suspension points that raise the platter from the subplatter.
The tonearm is the brand new RB808 with tighter bearings and beautiful precision of fit and finish that is derived from a new casting system by Rega

It's taken a while ... I've always wanted to be able to purvey a Linn Record Player. Ivor Tifenbrun is one of my industry icons. This is his seminal product. read more