Tagged: vinyl

A subwoofer and a turntable sharing a room can turn a great pressing into mud. Here's how to place both so bass and vinyl actually get along.

Overhang, zenith angle and azimuth decide more about vinyl sound quality than the cartridge you buy. Here's the engineering, explained by a digital guy.

Vinyl and a dedicated Atmos set-up can share a room, but rarely share a rack. Here's why, and what I'd actually do about it.

From air-bearing platters to outboard motor pods, what separates a reference turntable from a very good one, and why the gains get smaller as the price climbs.

A former record shop owner on the real spending order for a turntable system, and where extra dollars stop buying you anything.

Priya Anand spent years dismissing streamers as beside the point. Here's what changed her mind — and what a good digital source actually does for a valve-based system.

Phono stages range from $50 to $5,000. Dave Okafor cuts through the hype to show where the money genuinely matters — and where it really doesn't.

Building a vinyl system means making four spending decisions that compound on each other. Here's where the money actually moves the needle — and where it doesn't.

Resistive loading and capacitance aren't just set-and-forget specs. Marcus Vale explains how they reshape your cartridge's frequency response and why the numbers matter.

Overhang, azimuth, VTA, SRA — four alignment parameters that determine whether your cartridge sounds sublime or merely acceptable. Sofia Laurent explains what each one does and how to set it properly.

Getting gain and impedance loading right can transform a mediocre vinyl replay into something exceptional. Marcus Vale explains the numbers, the maths, and the listening tests.

Audio-Technica's AT-MCD1 arrives June 4, 2026, with a unified CVD diamond cantilever-and-stylus and dual moving-coil design at US$11,000.

Ortofon unveiled its most advanced moving-coil cartridge ever at High End Vienna on June 4, 2026. Here's why the MC Vertex matters for serious vinyl listeners.

The RIAA confirmed US vinyl hit $1.04 billion in 2025 — its 19th straight year of growth. We look at what the milestone means for AU buyers.

ARIA's 2025 figures confirm seven consecutive years of growth for Australian recorded music, with vinyl revenue rising 4.1% to A$46.3 million.

BPI data shows UK vinyl revenue surged 19.9% to £174.7m in 2025 — the highest in over 30 years. What does it mean for Australian enthusiasts?

US indie Hellbender Vinyl has opened a second pressing facility in Philadelphia, built on the 2024 acquisition of Softwax Record Pressing. Here's why it matters.

Bruno Mars is the face of Record Store Day 2026 on April 18, with an exclusive vinyl compilation and 350-plus titles. Here's what AU collectors need to know.