Michell Revolv turntable, arm & cartridge The Michell Revolv is a belt driven, unsuspended turntable. Nothing about this bare bones description is remotely novel; it’s the type standard for most turntables hitting the market in 2026 and a formula that is capable of great results. Where the novelty creeps in is the existence of the […]
Pro-ject Debut Reference 10 turntable When a company with the history and reputation of Austria’s Pro-ject launches the ‘best ever’ turntable in its established and well-respected Debut series, it cannot be ignored and I got myself in the queue to get one for the Ear as soon as the news broke. Pro-ject claims to be […]
Rega Planar 6 RS Edition turntable, arm & cartridge Rega RS Edition turntables are beginning to become a thing, two years ago we had the Planar 3 RS, a version of their most successful design that took elements from the Planar 6 and also had a brushed aluminium satin finish, albeit in black rather than […]
Korf TA-AF9 Series II tonearm Korf tonearms aren’t that well known. But just because they don’t have a following going back years doesn’t mean they need time to get things right. Alexey Korf has built an arm with a reputation which deserves attention, and has built a very strong following, and in relatively short order. […]
The Wand Dark-Light tonearm Pick-up arms are wonderful things. They do an amazing job of supporting a signal generator over an fast-moving undulating groove while ensuring that the stylus reading the groove maintains good (enough) contact with the groove walls in order to extract all the musical information contained within it. Approaches to achieving that […]
Clearaudio Compass turntable, arm & cartridge I have been around audio as a consumer, retailer and reviewer for a very long time but this is my first encounter with any product from Clearaudio, a company founded in Germany in 1978. From that time the company has built a very impressive product portfolio, centred around turntables, […]
Primare Allt-i-Ett one box system Allt-i-Ett. No, not a secret keyboard shortcut to hack Elon Musk’s PIN number but, if you speak Swedish or Norwegian, simply ‘all-in-one’. After a 41 year run building some of the world’s sleekest Scandi-fi separates for both music and home cinema lovers, Allt-i-Ett is Primare’s long-awaited lifestyle concept album, the […]
Audio Origami PU8 tonearm In recent years, turntables have become more homogenous. The majority of designs I test now combine at least the deck and arm from the same manufacturer and many companies are adding cartridges and phono stages to their repertoire as well. The arguments for compatibility and convenience are solid ones and someone […]
Rega Nd9 moving magnet cartridge Sometimes, even when a product launch goes very well indeed, manufacturers can still be slightly taken aback by the results. Rega’s Nd line of moving magnet cartridges is a case in point. For clarity, it would be churlish to argue that it has gone anything other than swimmingly. Since the […]
The Ear’s reviewers pick the best hi-fi of 2025 If you want to discover the best hi-fi of 2025, the audio products that really wowed our reviewers over the last 12 months, look no further. These components made a lasting impression, they are the ones reviewers would have held onto if they could and in […]
Vertere DG X turntable & arm I cannot speak for you of course, but I have the sense that we are living through some dark days. As a natural optimist it pains me to even say so, but there we are. Then suddenly, a product comes along for review which absolutely lifts me and brightens […]
Clipaudio Dolomite turntable and Ninewave tonearm One of the most amazing things about hi-fi is the ongoing quest to wring the most out of what many would term outdated media. Within living memory we have been informed that the LP is dead, long live the CD, and then that streaming will never catch on; it’s […]