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 ...

The component in a phonograph turntable that holds the stylus, which is a needle attached to a cantilever arm. The vibrations of the stylus are transferred into electrical energy by a magnet inducing ...

You don't have to break the bank to give your turntable a quick hi-fi upgrade.

The phono cartridge is the audio component that sits on the end of a turntable’s tonearm and holds the stylus. But that description doesn’t quite cover how important it is. It’s actually a complex ...

Does one need to spend more than $500 for a phono cartridge? Grado, Sumiko, and Goldring would beg to differ. Growing up, Hockey Night in Canada would run a competition during the intermission called ...

Turntable manufacturers tend to make every part of the turntable themselves — the plinth, the motor, the tonearm and the platter. There is, however, often a notable exception for what is arguably a ...

Whether you're just now getting into turntables or you're an old pro, Shure phono cartridges dig more music out of your record grooves. Ex-movie theater projectionist Steve Guttenberg has also worked ...

Soundsmith's Peter Ledermann not only makes a full line of highly innovative phono cartridges -- the company also offers amplifiers and speakers. Ex-movie theater projectionist Steve Guttenberg has ...

For anyone who has worked in broadcasting for any length of time, the name Shure is synonymous with two things, microphones and phono cartridges. Today, the company announced it was getting out of the ...

While we have published a number of variations on a standard RIAA preamplifier for magnetic phono cartridges, we have not published a preamp stage for ceramic phono cartridges. Typically, these were ...