Few people could have noticed the incredible resurrection of vinyl as a format for playing recorded music. Vinyl’s return to health is nothing short of a miracle and sales are booming of a format that ...

Your record player is made up of three main parts. There is the deck itself, which is responsible for spinning the disc and providing the home for the tonearm and cartridge. It’s the cartridge that we ...

We break down the differences between moving coil and moving magnet phono cartridges. The vast majority of turntables sold in 2022 come with a pre-installed phono cartridge. Most consumers are ...

Moving-magnet or moving-coil cartridge? For the in-betweens, Goldring today introduced the Eroica HX high-output moving coil cartridge, which offers a taste of moving-coil sound without the additional ...

Ortofon has released the replacement for its long-running Quintet series of moving-coil cartridges. The Danish cartridge specialist’s new MC X range consists of four models, the MC X10 (£269), MC X20 ...

Rega has added a new cartridge option to boost the performance of its mid-range Planar turntables. The £750 Ania Pro is a moving coil model, which sits between the Ania (£500) and the Apheta 3 (£1250) ...

At $5,499, the AT-ART1000X Direct Power Stereo Moving Coil Phono Cartridge improves upon the AT-ART1000 with improvements in design and materials. Unlike conventional moving coil cartridges, the ...

The phono cartridge, whether a moving magnet or moving coil, has been around for the best part of 80 years. That's given the technology plenty of time to be fully developed and honed, particularly as ...

The component in a phonograph turntable that holds the stylus, which is a needle attached to a cantilever arm. The vibrations of the stylus are transferred into electrical energy by a magnet inducing ...

The “X-quisite VORO”, the world’s first monoblock moving-coil (MC) cartridge, encapsuled by a fully 3D-printed single-piece ceramic Voronoi-web housing, recently won the prestigious iF Design 2025 ...