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Victrola Harmony Bluetooth Turntable System With Shelf Speakers
Mike Mettler  |  Jun 10, 2025

When it comes to starting points, Victrola knows how to bring people into the analog realm — and to that end, today, June 10, 2025, the company is announcing the official availability of their Harmony Bluetooth Turntable System with Shelf Speakers. Read on to see how the Harmony system has the right amount of zen to pass along to those just getting into our analog field of interest. . .

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Victrola Stream Onyx VPT-2000-BLK-ATE Turntable Coming in February
Mike Mettler  |  Jan 23, 2023

Is there a more storied, historic company name when it comes to the history of the turntable than that of Victrola? Well, the company that’s been manufacturing audio gear since 1906 is still going strong, having recently announced at CES 2023 that their next-gen turntable, the Stream Onyx VPT-2000-BLK-ATE, will be coming our way in mid-to-late February. Read on to find out about the Stream Onyx’s feature set, pricing, and connectivity options accordingly. . .

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Video Highlights From the New York Audio Show 2022
Mike Mettler  |  Sep 13, 2022

Our man about town, Ken Micallef, attended the New York Audio Show 2022 last week, and he was ever-so-gracious enough to share the following video footage with us, which shows some of the coolest gear he saw and heard at the show. Read on to see what he saw. . .

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Vincent Audio’s PHO-701 Is a Classy Hybrid Two-Chassis MM/MC Phono Preamp Option
Mike Mettler  |  Jan 26, 2023

Vincent Audio knows from phono preamps, and the company’s PHO-701 MM/MC hybrid two-chassis model now emerges in the wake of its vaunted PHO-700 predecessor. How does it stack up? Read on to get all the PHO-701 spec details. . .

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VPI Announces "Dual Pivot" Modification For All 3D Printed Arms
Michael Fremer  |  Aug 24, 2016
VPI just announced a new, easy to accomplish modification for its full line of 3D printed arms that turns the unipivot into a dual pivot design that creates a fully stable arm that fully eliminates "wobble".

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VPI Debuts New $15,000 HW-40 Direct Drive Turntable
Michael Fremer  |  Oct 21, 2018
October 21st, 2018, Matawan, N.J.—VPI Industries today debuted a brand new $15,000 HW-40 Direct Drive Turntable at an event held at its Matawan, N.J. "VPI House" headquarters to help celebrate the company's 40th anniversary.

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VPI Goldy MC Cartridge
Mike Mettler  |  Aug 21, 2023

New Jersey-based VPI Industries are quite well-known for their rightly vaunted lines of high-quality turntables and tonearms respectively, but when they decided to get into the cartridge engineering universe, they turned to Audio-Technica for the manufacturing assist. Read on to find out what’s what with one of VPI’s latest MC cart offerings, the Goldy moving coil cartridge. . .

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VPI Launches "The Nomad" Complete Headphone-Friendly Turntable System (Corrected Copy)
Michael Fremer  |  Dec 10, 2013
VPI Industries today announced "The Nomad" a $995 "all in one" system consisting of a turntable that borrows the Traveler's plinth and platter assembly and includes a new less costly 10" aluminum gimbaled tonearm as well as a custom phono preamplifier and headphone amplifier.

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VPI Launches $900 Cliffwood Turntable
Michael Fremer  |  Jun 30, 2017
VPI Industries announced on June 29th the new $900 Cliffwood turntable, named for the New Jersey town in which VPI has been headquartered for the past 30 years.

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VPI Launches New Prime Scout Turntable
Michael Fremer  |  Apr 08, 2017
VPI recently launched a new Prime Scout turntable that refines the original Scout 'table, which has been in production for many years.

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VTL Introduces New 2.5i All-Tube Preamp With Optional Phono Stage
Michael Fremer  |  Jan 09, 2016
Vacuum Tube Logic (VTL) introduced at CES 2016 the new 2.5i preamplifier. Priced at $3000, the all-tube design is far less costly than the TL 5.5 but, according to VTL's Luke Manley, the new preamp gives up very little in terms of sound quality and features.

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Waxrax 45A Is Luxury You Can Afford
Michael Fremer  |  Nov 25, 2015
Waxrax CNC machines from solid aluminum this easy to grip 45rpm adapter.

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We Are Rewind Portable Cassette Players
Mike Mettler  |  Jan 15, 2026

If you’re gonna name a company whose raison d’être is to focus on celebrating all the joys of cassette culture, you can’t do much better than declaratively calling yourselves We Are Rewind. A French company based in Paris, We Are Rewind was founded in 2016 in collaboration with ORA, along with support from French engineers who boast over 40 years of experience in analog technology. Fast-forward to the here and now, wherein We Are Rewind have recently introduced two high-profile limited-editions portable cassette players that celebrate a pair of music icons from different eras. Read on to see how these two players are the perfect entry points for young, budding, and longtime tapeheads alike. . .

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Wilson Benesch Graviton Ti Tonearm
Mike Mettler  |  May 20, 2025

Presenting another piece of cool gear seen at High End Munich 2025, before we begin sharing all the deep-dive show reports from our fellow editors who were at the big show — namely, the Wilson Benesch Graviton Ti tonearm, which “evolved” (their word) from the version of the arm originally integrated into their flagship GMT One System turntable and seen here on the Dohmann Helix One Mk3 turntable. . .

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Wilson Benesch Greenwich Turntable
Mike Mettler  |  Mar 16, 2026

British manufacturer Wilson Benesch have long been known for honoring the concept of time when it comes to naming their high-end products, and their latest turntable takes it to the next time zone, er, level. Meet the Greenwich turntable, which is the gateway model into Wilson Benesch’s GMT series platform that centers around the ALPHA–OMEGA direct-drive architecture that it shares with the company’s prior, top-tier Prime Meridian and GMT One tables. Read on to see all the features and specs of Wilson Benesch’s quite impressive Greenwich table. . .

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