My first-ever record player was the Pioneer PL-112D. It was passed on to me from an older family member when they moved on to something more ambitious. My memories are of a solid budget belt-drive ...

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 ...

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 ...

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

Moving-magnet or moving-coil cartridge? For the in-betweens, Goldring today introduced the Eroica HX high-output moving coil cartridge, which offers a taste of moving-coil sound without the additional ...

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 ...

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 ...

The “X-quisite VORO”, the world’s first monoblock moving-coil (MC) cartridge, encapsuled by a fully 3D-printed single-piece ceramic Voronoi-web housing, recently won the prestigious iF Design 2025 ...