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Fun as the Vertere XtraX is, I've not stuck it here because it's a bit on the ridiculous side. This on the other hand is a bit more relevant and interesting; I've had a Gold Note Vasari Gold for some years. In the great inflationary spiral of the last few years, the fact you can pick one up...

Hello all, long time no see. Anyway... So yeah... an Imperium Motor Drive. It was sent 'to see how I get on with it' which is as cruel and unusual punishment as I think has ever been devised. It turned up with an IsoShelf and three Isolator feet too because why not 💀. Neither were they done...

If (and I grant you, it's an 'if' that can be seen from space), these are the only LP12s that ever have these features on them (and curving the edges of the armboard which is now integral with the subchassis would be the single largest production mod Linn has ever done because it would be the...

The Xerxes has returned to Roksan. Other things have passed through in the meantime but today I returned to the flattest of flat Earth principles; One of Linn's finest bouncy boxes is here for a while. There used to be a sort of 'good, better, best' approach to the LP12 range but it's all got...

Strange times chez Selley today as the Vertere gets to meet its Dad; Vertere is owned by Touraj Moghaddam who is responsible for the bulk of the design work at the company. Before Vertere, Moghaddam was a co-founder of Roksan where he designed the Xerxes turntable. Because the hifi industry is...

*coughs* £2,749.

Like a Cylon interceptor with a stylus; This is the Audio Technica ART20 announced today. A sample has been here for a bit in preparation for a review and it is starting to do some impressive things (and, it has to be said, some mildly perplexing ones too).

The Anniversary (and I'm just looking at that, no arm or cart is for sale) is something I've wanted for a while. If (if) I buy it, I'll do one of my uber posts on the what's, why's and huh's? of it. It's hopeless (there are many, many things about the design that are almost hilariously flawed)...

This is not the one I am looking at but it's one of these; The lid is the clue...

I love it too, even after meeting its ridiculous big brother yesterday. What if I was to tell you that ole twat face here sent an email this morning about *coughs* another turntable? Not a new turntable either. A thirty one year old one. One that is so heroically and legendarily unreliable that...

So... remember this little throwaway line? Well, I went to Vertere today. I went along to talk to the founder, have the MG1 tweaked and updated and collect something interesting for review. I also spent some time with this; An RG-1. In latest spec with new Reference arm and iso platform...

Well, after a long time out of commission (I unmounted it in Sep '21 because it was abundantly clear that 1,400 odd hours since 2017 were all the stylus could handle, ignored it, sent it off for rebuild in March which was completed in June, whereupon it was shipped back to the UK... and then...

The problem for that is that Fyne Audio has the same idea... and they have most of the decent Tannoy engineers working for them...

I've plonked various members of the Classic range on Soundstyle ones with no ill effects. Whatever stands you choose, some silicone 'blobs' (or BluTak) on the top plate is highly recommended.

The review is now live. Tl;dr- yes.

I was left unattended on Discogs again which is why I now own a copy of Underworld's 1989 album Change the Weather. Objectively it's not *good* but it's weirdly entertaining.

I imagine the Radikal will be a fair old step forward. Did you decide on PSU over arm by listening or was it a price/availability thing?

We have established that, with my legendarily poor impulse control, very bad things could happen 🤡. What PSU were you using before the Radikal?

That looks very smart. Upgradeable decks are a blessing and a curse to be honest. Vertere got in touch asking if I wanted to 'try' the Imperium PSU with MG-1 (it's designed for the bigger decks but works on mine too). I declined because I'll only do something stupid 🥴. What a knob though...

Well, I've broken out the serious test tracks...