Category: Stereo Gear
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Dust Cover Restoration
I spent a good chunk of time this past weekend restoring a turntable that arrived to me in grimy cosmetic shape, including a particularly nasty dust cover that featured decades-old decaying packing tape and its sticky residue covered in dirt and dust. But after an hour or or two of intensive scrubbing, we had it…
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A Diamond In The Rough: The Goldring G800 Phono Cartridge
Out of all the twists and turns on the long and winding road to audio nirvana, as a vinyl enthusiast, my favorite little corner to explore is the world of phono cartridges – particularly that of overlooked vintage cartridges that may be forgotten and easy to find on the cheap. The Goldring G800 certainly qualifies,…
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Phono Cartridge Review: The Venerable Nagaoka MP-110
The Nagaoka MP-110 is a current phono cartridge offering from longtime Japanese stylus manufacturers, Nagaoka, and has become tremendously popular in recent years for providing an appetizing, warm and pleasant sound quality at a reasonable price point. HISTORY So what do we know about Nagaoka? Not much, I’m afraid, but enough to know that they…
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In Defense of the Humble Record Changer
A couple of weeks ago, I repaired the record changer function on my Garrard A70 and shared a video of the record changing mechanism in action with a vintage HiFi Facebook group I belong to, and was amused by a few scattered comments like ‘If you are too lazy to change the record yourself, you…
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Exploring Tom Petty’s Stereo Setup
I’m a fierce advocate for everyone enjoying music however they like, the key words are joy and music, not gear. So I’m not one to judge, but as someone with a deep passion for the gear, I’m always fascinated by how people listen to music. So I loved this look into Tom Petty’s 1978 stereo…
Box Full of Records 