Designed by former Plinius designer Gary Morrison, the PureAudio VINYL phono preamplifier is a dual mono, pure Class "A" design suitable for low to medium output MC cartridges with user selectable loading from 47ohms to 47K Ohms in six steps.

What could be more appropriate to plug your wooden turntable into than the iFi phono preamp built into iFi's Stereo 50 Vacuum Tube Amplifier complete with two-way LS 3.5 speakers?

Covering all the new analog gear at RMAF was more than enough to deal with but luckily in the hotel gym I began a conversation with Mike Johnson Director of Sales America/Canada for Pendalumic headphones and I promised to check them out in the CANJAM headphone area.

If you need more proof that vinyl is here to stay, consider this product from DS Audio a newly formed business group of the Digital Stream Corporation (DSC). DSC co-developed with Microsoft the optical mouse and for more than 25 years has provided industrial laser optics for medical testing systems and for laser-based medical optical instrumentation.

After a few shows at which attendees were shown mockups and parts, AMG finally had a working version of its new $2750 Teatro MC cartridge.

RMAF is a big show this year and much more ground must be covered but so far the analog news at the show is that there hasn't really been any. The big news has been headphones and computer audio.

Sutherland Engineering's Ron Sutherland entered the high performance audio market years ago with a costly phono preamplifier and an equally costly preamplifier that used a motion-sensing remote control. Since then Mr. Sutherland has ramped down the price points to more mainstream his products. Until now.

31 year old Singapore-based vocalist Vanessa Fernandez is well known at home as a former member of hip-hop group Urban Xchange, known later as Parking Lot Pimp. That was more than a decade ago. More recently she's been the disc jockey "Vandetta" or "Miss Vandetta" on Mediacorp Radio's 987FM.