June 26, 2021

Review: Six Vintage Shure Cartridges

Vintage Shure moving-magnet cartridges offer considerable presence, texture and dynamic heft, playback traits the most cerebral vinyl collectors acknowledge as prerequisites for emotional connectivity.
July 15, 2021

Pro-Ject Pro Turntable Announced

Priced at $899 USD and available in limited quantities starting August 2021, Sumiko and Pro-Ject USA just announced the Pro-Ject Pro turntable.
June 19, 2022

Groove Tickler: The Needle and the Damage Done

A calling does not always ring clearly through time and space. Many struggle through life trying on jobs or careers which turn out to be a poor fit for their unique dimensions. Joseph Long followed a circuitous employment path before finding himself behind a high-powered microscope intuiting the needle and the damage done to phono cartridges.
August 7, 2022

SUT: The Moving Coil Step Up Transformer

Black magic. Voodoo. These are the usual replies when asked what’s inside one of the small silver boxes kept near my turntable. The answer doesn’t stray too far from the truth, because the passive step-up transformer, or SUT, offers such a marked increase in the level of performance from an moving-coil cartridge as to be considered supernatural.