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T.H.E. New York International Audio Show was T.H.E. place to be during the last weekend in October 2025, and our turntable expert Ken Micallef was there to capture all the sights and sounds firsthand. Read on to check out Ken’s video report on all the cool new tables seen and heard from the likes of VPI, Audio Note, Linn, Technics, TW-Acustic, and many, many more. . .

My fellow analog audiophiles, take note — we are now all members in good standing in a newly spelled subset called vinylphyles. Vinylphyles, of course, have the same, er, obsessive-about-SQ-on-wax laser-focus as we do — and we can credit UMe for coming up with that double-y sobriquet, which also happens to serve as the name of their exciting new reissue program. Read on to see which four titles are coming out on November 14, 2025, that will inaugurate this all-important AAA series. . .

A new design aimed squarely at the sub-$1,000 turntable market, the Technics SL-50C turntable is a little marvel of a vinyl spinning machine. Read Ken Micallef’s review to see if the SL-50C direct drive table delivers all the goods at its quite affordable price point. . .

Well, it’s one for the money (pause), two for the show (pause) . . . and I bet you know the rest. Seeing how we’re fast approaching the 70th anniversary of the song those opening lines adorn — Carl Perkins’ perennial rockabilly classic, “Blue Suede Shoes” — the timing couldn’t be any better for an audiophile-centric reissue of this January 1956 single. To that end, Intervention Records have just announced that the first vinyl release in their new Intervention Sun Records Hi-Fi Series will be the album that “Blue Suede Shoes” ultimately landed on — 1957’s Dance Album of Carl Perkins — and it’s expected to ship in December 2025. Read on to see how the historically important AAA 180g 45rpm mono LP Dance Album reissue came to be. . .