Vinyl

A really special Turntable designed alongside Metallica themselves this will become a real talking point in anyone's living room.

Only a limited amount of these have been made and relatively few have come to Australia. 

The last one left at Carlton Audio Visual. It hasn't had any play and has been sitting in a display window on Lygon st.

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The new Ania Pro Moving Coil cartridge is a variation on Rega's existing Ania cart. The difference being a Vital Profile nude diamond instead of the Eliptical. An Eliptical diamond has a rounded surface that's shaped so it's longer front-to-back than it is side-to-side. It has its advantages but it means that alot of the high frequency and the smaller details are missed from being picked up within the groove.

The Vital Profile has some specifically designed sharper edges that get the diamond further into the groove producing a more nuanced, detailed sound.

It retains all the nice things of the original Ania as well: Neodymium magnets, handwound loss mass coils, aluminium catilever, one-piece rigid body and the CAD designed cover of the internals which is made in red to distinguish it from its little brother.

This is great upgrade that's well worth the money. It's a great upgrade option on a Rega Planar 3 and can come factory fitted to the Planar 6 or 8. It is also a fantastic choice for other brands of Turntable. We do recommend we fit this cartridge to your deck as tracking and alignment become more crucial when the diamond is cut in this way.

Don't fret though, Carlton Audio Visual will fit your Ania Pro free of charge and offer you a tea, coffee or beer while you wait!

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The X2 is Pro-Ject's new Turntable and like others in the Pro-Ject range it boasts great quality sound and some handy features. A super Acoustically Dampening, High Mass Acryllic Platter, push button speed changes 33 1/3 to 45 to even 78 (with a belt and cartridge change) and Carbon/Aluminium Tonearm with adjustable VTE & Azimuth. Talk to us about what cartridge will be suit your needs and your system. We don't charge cartridge fitting costs and will happily set up the Turntable with your choice of cartridge. Learn More

A suberp cartridge with the class and refinement of a Moving Coil but the ability to go straight into a Moving Magnet Phono stage.

Created out of the desire to make a very high performance design at an affordable price, the Carmen was crafted to have unparalleled purity of tone and ultra-smooth presentation. Just slightly lush with a well-developed midrange, the Carmen is surprisingly pleasing and will seduce you into long, late listening sessions.

The stylus used is a large part of what makes it special; an ultra-low mass occlusion free nude diamond cut and polished into a true hyper-elliptical shape. The combination of low tip mass and the Fixed Coil design gives the Carmen a tremendous resolution advantage over MC designs selling for more than twice the price. Housed in a handmade solid Ebony case, the Carmen delivers.

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The new Turntable from Roksan is designed around minimalist ideals. Less is More!

The Unipivot tonearm has a single point bearing instead of the multiple horizontal and vertical bearings of a gimbal design. This means there's a reduction in the coupling surface area. In short - less vibrational resonance.

A high mass glass platter within an Aluminium shell providing extra dampening. All made to look sleek and sexy.

Built in phono stage for a reduced clean look without the need for an external unit.

Highly controlled microprocessor built in for exacting speed control.

A gorgeous unit that'll make many customers happy. 

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A classic turntable made into even more of a collectable. There will be a limited run of these 50th Anniversary versions of the Rega Planar 3 50th anniversay.

This unit includes some really fancy upgrades over the standard Planar 3 for a fraction of the cost buying them off the shelf. This includes:

• Neo PSU Mk 2 power supply
• factory fitted Exact cartridge
• Reference EBLT
• 24V motor fitted with the aluminium drive pulley instead of the standard plastic one.
• Premium Walnut finish

Units expected to arrive in September.

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Black Friday Special available until stock runs out.

Exceptional quality for a 'starter' system. Your Turntable needs met with fantastic sound quality.

Rega is British owned and manufactured and have been a much loved staple of Carlton Audio Visual for decades. Rega started life making turntables and it shows in everything else they make. They build beautiful gear without compromise keeping it simple to keep the music pure.

Their turntables are consistently class leading and best performing for their price, their amps are rich and warm and a favourite with our customers and staff and their speakers are beautifully built and sound effortless.

All-in-all a great option as a pack to hit the ground running.

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What Hi-Fi? on the Rega System One

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The sound picture of Cadenza Red is relaxed, homogeneous and moderately dynamic and have great space and depth in the stereo image. The Cadenza Red model is using a Nude Fine Line stylus with a cylindrical aluminium cantilever. The stylus tip radius is r/R 8/40 µm. The coils are made from 6NX (99.9999 %) pure silver wire. An improved winding process on the armature allows a better channel balance.

You may notice we are not always necessarily the cheapest retailer of cartridges but we will ALWAYS include a free professional fitting with all our cartridges. Along with any routine check-ups on your turntable.

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The full name of this unit is a bit of a mouthful. It's made by the Dutch company Tonar under their sub brand Knosti. They've been making recod cleaning utensils for 40 years and are loved by hardcore Vinyl enthusiasts everywhere.

Their Ultrasonic cleaner uses an Ultrasonic transducer to produce bubbles that gently and very effectively remove dirt and grime on the record.

The whole process is Antistatic and works to keep grime off the record well after the wash by making sure there's no static created in the cleaning and drying process.

This is a good quality Ultrasonic machine that is also affordable. A great addition to a Vinyl home that wants to go to the next level.

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This is an upmarket Automatic Turntable with more features than your ordinary Automatic deck and stylish looks to boot.

It can be set to have an automatic drop-off point for 7" or 12" records and also has a function for 78rpms meaning all of the old records in your family's collection can now be brought back to life.

It comes with a high quality Ortofon 2M red cartridge, a floating sub-chassis, damped platter and is handmade in Germany!

Available in Black only. 

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One of our favourite Phono stages that makes a partiularly good synthesis with Rega cartridges. However, it's definitely not to be limited to just the Rega cartridges. 

It's a warm sounding phono stage that adds a richness to a system. Like all Rega, it lacks frills but it does what it does ever so well.

If you're after multiple inputs and endless adjustibility, this model may not be the one. But if you're after an excellent phono stage that is a plug-in and forget, the Aria is perfect.

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Typically known for their digital products in particular their DACs, Chord has surfaced with a product for all of those Vinyl enthusiasts that are jealous of their friend's aircraft grade aluminium DACs. Like their digital products, the Huei not only has that super cool casing, it also has the pretty LED lights and funky buttons...

...but of course the aesthetics of the Huei aren't the only important thing here!

The Huei is a MM/MC phono stage with all of that tinkering capability for any type of cartridge. Impedance, Gain and Rumble (!) settings are all at your fingertips (coressponding to different coloured lights in the chassis). It also has Balanced outputs for those who are serious about Hi-Fi...and not just the coloured lights...

It produces an incredibly clean sound almost completely devoid of noise floor resolving the image beautifully.

We would recommend it to go with Soundsmith, Rega and Van den Hul cartridges.

Click here for Chris Kelly's glowing review in The Ear 

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Now available in a Matt White finish as well!

The new Planar 6 takes Rega's detail retrieval to an unfounded level in the hotly contested sub $4000 category. Come and audition it today.

I have taken one of these home for my Ambience loudspeakers with old Audiolab pre and power to upgrade from our old P3 and its ... fabulous.

There such a definitive joy in rediscovering a familiar piece of vinyl born again on a new turntable and cartridge that ranks up there with the glass of irreplaceable wine and the spring morning motorcycle ride in Bavarian mountainsides ... unlike the latter two you can do it again and again without damaging health ...

Best paired with a factory fitted Rega Exact MM cartridge ($400), an Ania MC cartridge ($900) or the new Ania Pro MC cartridge ($1400).

Other great options are the Soundsmith Otello for a silky smooth, very 3D sound ($890) and a Sumiko Blue Point Special for some sparkling highs and gorgeous separation ($1099)

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We are now making way for the new Cyrus models and still have brand new stock left of these beauties. I'm not even sure how they're going to make these any better. These are hot for the taking. For all those Vinyl lovers, there's not really a better phono stage out there.

Once upon a time Cyrus made a phono stage in called the Phono X, a very adjustable and sensitive line stage for adding a high quality record player to a Cyrus system encasd in their characteristic magnesium alloy chassis. It wasn't cheap, but it was simply fantastic to listen to with a sub zero noise floor and acute but sweet detail presentation.

They stopped making it in fairly short order, acceding to the then prevailing market wisdom that turntables were primitive tech doomed for extinction. Oh how we cried ... and Phono Xs became sought after and highly collectible.

Welcome to 2016 and Cyrus have risen to the call of born again vinyl and released the Phono Signature, and it is fantastic.

"What H Fi?" on the Phono Signature".
"Hi-Fi Choice" on the Phono Signature".

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Yes, this is Acoustic Signature's baby tonearm but don't let that fool you into thinking this is anything but a precision made, top perfoming tonearm. 

Its tracking capabilities are already far superior than the other brands of tonearms we stock. 

It has very low resonance with its dual layer internal carbon damping. 

This Tonearm is a joy to work with. All the adjustability allowing for precision mounting of cartridges. None of the hang ups and compromises built-in that are persent in other Tonearm brands...

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Using the best design circuitry and making no compromises, this is Pro-Ject's top of the line Phono stage.

A completely balanced circuit from input to output, this is a classy phono stage. It has all the flexibility you would expect with a phono stage of this calibre to cater to the best of cartridges and tastes.

 

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Cadenza Blue is true to the music with a tremendous clarity. The Cadenza Blue model is using a Nude FG 70 stylus with a very thin ruby cantilever. The coils are made from 6NX (99.9999 %) pure silver wire. An improved winding process on the armature allows a better channel balance. The soundstage of Cadenza Blue is wide open and grandiose straight out of the box. Micro dynamic and ambience will be evident when listening to complex compositions. It reaches a very high degree of definition in the perspective, which is very present.

You may notice we are not always necessarily the cheapest retailer of cartridges but we will ALWAYS include a free professional fitting with all our cartridges. Along with any routine check-ups on your turntable.

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A high quality VInyl player from renowned brand, Musical Fidelity.

This is their 'entry' level but it offers everything you'd expect from a high-end phono stage: Moving Magnet and Moving Coil compatibility as well as selectable Gain, Impedance and Capicitance. 

Musical Fidelity have always built high quality phono stages with a detailed and, yes, musical sound. 

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he Soundsmith Zephyr MkIII enjoys a great history, starting with the well loved VPI Zephyr  original, which evolved into the well known Zephyr MKII. In our effort to bring you even higher definition without increase in cost, we introduce the NEW Zephyr MKIII. It features a newly developed aluminum alloy - the same one we are now using in the Paua MKII, just released. This new metal alloy has unique dualistic properties, providing stiffness in the ranges required as well as damping exactly where its needed - and by the proper amount - in the most critical parts of the sonic spectrum. The result  is a cartridge that will slam your Rock and Roll while providing a new level of linearity and clarity for the most complex classical and jazz passages. 

Attached to our new cantilever material is a tiny new super low mass "High Profile" Contact Line diamond we have developed for the new Zephyr MKIII. This stylus traces more of the groove walls than a standard contact line, but avoids some of the alignment pitfalls that can occur with a high profile contact line design, allowing more azimuth alignment forgiveness than is normally possible with such designs. 

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