One of our good customers has a blog which he calls
A GUIDE FOR THE DEDICATED ANALOG AUDIOPHILE
In the listing below, Robert Brook recommends you buy a Triplanar tonearm. So do we. If you would like one, as dealers for this wonderful arm we may be able to help, although the wait is typically about a year. Worth the wait I say!
I hope to write a bit about getting my first Triplanar back in the late-90s, a life-changing event in my evolution as an audiophile.
Once I had learned how to dial in the VTA adjustment for every record I played, I quickly discovered that I was able to operate at a completly different level.
This is a sophisticated piece of equipment with very fine adjustments for every aspect of playback. I confess it actually took me about five years to be in full control of all the ins and outs of the Triplanar. The more I experimented with the settings, the more I learned and the better I could play records.
In 2005 I made a breakthrough while working with a favorite Borodin record I had been trying and failing to get to sound right. I wrote about the hours I spent adjusting the azimuth, VTA, anti-skate and tracking weight for that record, and what dramatic improvements resulted from my efforts all those years ago.
If you don’t have an arm of this quality, or don’t know how to adjust it for every record you play, it is our belief that you have not begun to hear how good your records can sound.
More on Robert’s system here. You may notice that it has a lot in common with the one we use.
Robert has approached the various problems he’s encountered scientifically, methodically and carefully, along these three fronts: