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Dual CS 429 – Automatic Turntable With Phono Preamp – Quicklook All Image Credit: Dual Dual started manufacturing gramophone components in Germany in 1907, introducing their signature “dual-motor” for powering record players in 1927. The design was so popular that the company took the name “Dual”. They are still based […]

Dual CS 429 – Automatic Turntable With Phono Preamp – Quicklook


New DS Audio ES-001 – Eccentricity Detection Stabilizer All Image Credit: DS Audio DS Audio are probably best known in the audiophile world for their range of optical cartridges like their top-of-the-line Grand Master. So after perfecting the optical cartridge DS Audio has now added the ES-001 eccentricity detection stabilizer […]

New DS Audio ES-001 – Eccentricity Detection Stabilizer







Technics SL-1200M7L Anniversary Turntable Launches With Free Global Dance Party All Image Credit: Technics Technics has announced that this April it will release a limited-edition direct-drive turntable to celebrate the 50th anniversary of its legendary SL-1200 series. The original SL-1200 rapidly became an audiophile favorite and was adopted by the […]

Technics SL-1200M7L Anniversary Turntable


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Record Doctor Low-Profile Record Clamp – Review This post contains affiliate links. Please see my full disclosure here. To Clamp Or Not To Clamp – That Is The Question I have often wondered whether a record weight or turntable clamp would improve my sound, so after about 40 years I took the […]

Record Doctor Low-Profile Record Clamp – Review





Linear Low Noise Analog Power Supplies – DIY This post contains affiliate links. Please see my full disclosure here. Updated test results – 09/28/2021, replaced original 9VAC transformer with 14VAC transformer. As a young teenage electronics enthusiast and licensed UK radio amateur (G8GBL), and all the way up to my early forties, […]

Linear Low Noise Analog Power Supplies – DIY


MX-VYNL Analog Power Supply – Upgrade UPDATED: 8/28/2021. During my original review of the MX-VYNL phono pre-amplifier I discovered that its external, inexpensive switched mode supply, caused noise problems which I improved with the addition of a couple of ferrite beads on the DC power supply cord feeding the pre-amp. […]

MX-VYNL Analog Power Supply – Upgrade



Optical Turntables and Laser Cartridges-Are They The Future?
DS Audio Optical Phono Cartridge Schematics Digital Stream (DS) Audio is an audio business group within Digital Stream Corporation (DSC). DSC has been in the laser optics market over 25 years is known as the provider of industrial laser optics systems in the optical disc market, in Medial testing systems, and for various laser optical […]

DS Audio Optical Phono Cartridge Schematics


Channel D Seta L20 Phono Pre-Amp – First Look Let me first say that this top of the line Seta L20 MK2 has an MSRP of $63,000.00 and is manufactured right here in NJ, USA. Compare that with the $60,000.00 VITUS Audio MP-201, the CH Precision P1 with PSU at $50,350.00 […]

Channel D Seta L20 Phono Pre-Amp – First Look