Your record player is made up of three main parts. There is the deck itself, which is responsible for spinning the disc and providing the home for the tonearm and cartridge. It’s the cartridge that we ...

We break down the differences between moving coil and moving magnet phono cartridges. The vast majority of turntables sold in 2022 come with a pre-installed phono cartridge. Most consumers are ...

Few people could have noticed the incredible resurrection of vinyl as a format for playing recorded music. Vinyl’s return to health is nothing short of a miracle and sales are booming of a format that ...

Audio specialist Goldring has unveiled its latest moving coil cartridge. The new Goldring Ethos SE is a special edition of the brand's established Ethos model (hence "SE"), with the manufacturer ...

Ortofon has released the replacement for its long-running Quintet series of moving-coil cartridges. The Danish cartridge specialist’s new MC X range consists of four models, the MC X10 (£269), MC X20 ...

It’s been a while since Sumiko aimed directly at that group, and the Oriole is a deliberate shot. Handcrafted in Japan and positioned between the Songbird and Starling, the Oriole uses a nude Shibata ...

Life is complicated enough already, so I like to keep things simple whenever I can. Take men’s clothes, for instance. Why mix brands when settling on a single design house like Isaia ensures that ...

Not long before compact discs (CDs) came on the scene, soon to be eclipsed by digital MP3 media, vinyl records were the preferred method of storing and playing music. Although they’re no longer center ...

How does a wiggling groove on a rotating record transform into two-channel sonic excellence? It starts with the turntable ...

The phono cartridge, whether a moving magnet or moving coil, has been around for the best part of 80 years. That's given the technology plenty of time to be fully developed and honed, particularly as ...