Lentek Head Amplifier Upgrade Designed by Peter Baxandall for use with the Lentek Entre moving coil cartridge, this little gem has a lot to offer when paired with other moving coil cartridges and a high quality phono pre-amp like the MX-VYNL. With +28dB of gain and a low nose figure the […]

Lentek Head Amplifier Upgrade

UPscaled Is Not 4K 2
UPscaled Is Not 4K My 2 Cents Many of us have spent large amounts of money on upgrading our systems to watch 4K, wide color gamut, high dynamic range movies. AND of course those illusive 4K TV/cable and Over The Air (OTA) channels. It has come to my notice, and maybe […]

UPscaled Is Not 4K

Beatles - Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - Yesteryear Vinyl
Beatles – Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band – Yesteryear Vinyl Sgt. Peppers Lonely Hearts Club Band is the eighth studio album by the English rock band the Beatles. It was produced by George Martin and released on 26th May 1967 in the United Kingdom and 2nd June 1967 in […]

Beatles – Sgt Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band – Yesteryear Vinyl

Sound United Closes Deal On Acquisition Of Bowers & Wilkins
Sound United Acquires Bowers & Wilkins Sound United, the parent company of Denon, Marantz, Polk Audio and many more audio-video brands has announced its intention to acquire audiophile speaker manufacturer Bowers & Wilkins. Kevin Duffy, CEO at Sound United, said in a statement: “Over the course of five decades Bowers […]

Sound United Acquires Bowers & Wilkins

Denon X6700H & X4700H 8K Receivers If you are a regular visitor to my site you will already know my views regarding 8K video. But here we go again, ‘if they build it, many will buy it’.  Denon’s world first 8K-ready AVRs are feature-packed and future-proofed. They build on the […]

Denon X6700H & X4700H 8K Receivers

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Pink Floyd – Animals – Yesteryear Vinyl Animals is the tenth studio album by English rock band Pink Floyd. It was released in January 1977 through Harvest and Columbia Records and recorded at the band’s Britannia Row Studios in London throughout 1976. The album continues the longform compositions that made […]

Pink Floyd – Animals – Yesteryear Vinyl

Leak Is Back. What's Next Radford? 2
Leak Is Back. What’s Next Radford?                     Introduction The UK was the birth place of many of the original audiophile companies like Leak, Quad, Wharfdale, Radford, Celestion, Decca, EMI, English Electric etc. to name but a few. Many of these very […]

Leak Is Back. What’s Next Radford?

Stockfisch DMM-Dubplate Vol. 1 2
Stockfisch DMM-Dubplate Vol. 1 So in the never ending attempt for the vinyl audiophile to get even closer to the analog source, Stockfisch Records have got just about as close as you can. Stockfisch Records & Pauler Acoustics are a niche high end mastering and cutting company, based in Germany, […]

Stockfisch DMM-Dubplate Vol. 1

lentek head amp
MX-VYNL & Lentek Head Amp Introduction. So after being very happy with my MX-VYNL and Hana pairing for a while now, I decided to modify my rebuilt Lentek head amp to correctly load the Hana and see how it would sound when paired to the MX-VYNL running in unbalanced moving […]

MX-VYNL & Lentek Head Amp

Queen -  News Of The World - Yesteryear Vinyl
Queen –  News Of The World – Yesteryear Vinyl News of the World – takes its album title from the British Newspaper of the same name – and is the sixth studio album by the British rock band Queen. The album was released in October 1977 by EMI Records in […]

Queen – News Of The World – Yesteryear Vinyl

Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd - Yesteryear Vinyl 2
Wish You Were Here – Pink Floyd – Yesteryear Vinyl Wish You Were Here is the ninth studio album by the English rock band Pink Floyd, released on 12 September 1975 through Harvest Records and Columbia Records. Based on material Pink Floyd composed while performing in Europe, Wish You Were […]

Wish You Were Here – Pink Floyd – Yesteryear Vinyl

Jelco Tonearm Manufacturer Closes So far this is just a strong rumor, but the Jelco web site and various industry professionals are indicating that there are problems ahead. Has the Ichikawa Jewel Company – the Japanese manufacturer behind Jelco, which has been manufacturing phono cartridges, tonearms and turntable accessories for almost a […]

Jelco Tonearm Manufacturer Closes

Carole King – Tapestry – Yesteryear Vinyl Tapestry is the second studio album by American singer-songwriter Carole King. It was released in 1971 on Ode Records and produced by Lou Adler. It is one of the best-selling albums of all time, with over 25 million copies sold worldwide to date. The […]

Carole King – Tapestry – Yesteryear Vinyl

Network Cables & Switches - Myths & BS
Network Cables & Switches – Myths & BS Introduction I have worked at the pointed or origination end of audio and video all my professional life (40+ years) from professional recording studios to professional radio and TV broadcast and production. So I couldn’t let the following comments evaporate into the […]

Network Cables & Switches – Myths & BS

TOTO - Yesteryear Vinyl
TOTO – Yesteryear Vinyl TOTO was an American rock band from Van Nuys, LA, the town in which I first lived when I moved to America in 1993. Just in time for the 1994 Northridge earthquake that virtually totaled my newly purchased home. Luckily I had taken out earthquake insurance……but that […]

TOTO – Yesteryear Vinyl