Just for the record

In a world of multi-tasking digital kit, there’s an alluring purity about the turntable – it has only one job. And these ones do it brilliantly

Now that the last remnants of those who once blithely announced the death of analogue music have finally retreated to consume their words, the rest of us can happily survey a hi-fi landscape currently overflowing with examples of that most satisfying of analogue devices – the turntable. Even the most clinically minded among us must surely admit that, despite the brilliance of most digital kit out there, nothing quite compares to the feeling of sliding a vinyl record out of its sleeve, placing it on a platter and watching that needle sink gently into the groove. A natural consequence of the fact that vinyl LP sales rose for the 16th consecutive year in 2023 is that, today, anyone in the market for a quality turntable has a wealth of options to…

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What Hi-Fi? (Digital) - 1 Issue, January 2025

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