Few brands are so closely linked to gramophones and turntables. Ever since Hermann Thorens founded the company in Sainte-Croix, Switzerland, the name has been associated with music. They even made harmonicas – and lighters, but that’s a different story. Thorens has since had many different owners, everything that has been done has not been as …
You take a turntable, and add speakers, vips you have a fixed finished stereo system. But wait, where did the amplifier go? Well, it could be in the speakers, but here the amplifier is integrated in the turntable. The McIntosh MTI100 is thus an integrated turntable, but in the high-end class and not in the …
Most wireless speakers come with everything in one box. Which is convenient and convenient at the same time. You only need to deal with a few buttons, and it takes up little space. So far so good. But there is a better, though not as practical, solution. Namely two wireless speakers. Then you get stereo …
When the CDs were released in the market, most people still continued to play their vinyl records. They never really disappeared, even though the CDs eventually supplanted LPs on store shelves. Several formats have come and gone (anyone remember DCC?), But the vinyl records have passed. Even in these streaming times, where both CDs and …
The turntable from Teac costs more than the cheapest turntables, but there’s a reason for that. I don’t just mean the design with the silver grey details on a walnut coloured chassis, but also what is housed within the turntable. It looks a bit more expensive and is better equipped with both built-in turntable amplifier …
Headphones, most would say if we mention Grado. But watchmaker Joseph Grado of Brooklyn, NY, actually started with handmade cartridges. Which he made at home and resold. In 1959, Grado had been making pickups for six years, when the first Moving Coil version in stereo was patented. The rest is history as they say, and …