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Pop Goes Australia!

Rainy Days and Vinyl.

Storing records in some kind of organised way!

My favourite phono cartridges.

I've been doing a fair bit of 'cartridge stuff' of late, and whilst I haven't sampled a huge range over the years I have listened to a few of the popular moving magnet types and it is interesting to reflect on their 'sound' and other sonic and related characteristics. The list: well in recent times anyway there has been the Shure M97xE, various versions of the Ortofon Super OM series, the Ortofon 2M Red and quite recently a cartridge I've 'rediscovered' in a sense the 'budget?' Audio Technica AT95E.

Kit building and my workbench.

Audio equipment 'reviewing'

The Overall Audio Experience and Component 'Synergy'.

Cartridge Surgery!

Vinyl in the modern world.

I frequently read that vinyl playback is undergoing a bit of a rebirth and I am particularly gratified to see 'young people' reared on CD's, Ipods and music downloads rediscovering the pleasures of old fashioned vinyl playback. Yet some people are still surprised to see vinyl still being played at all! In recent months I've had a few personal experiences where friends of mine and acquaintances have partaken of the 'vinyl' experience (sorry but I couldn't resist that one), and liked it.

The surviving members of the collection!