Audio

    The Long Arc of Thorens: How a Swiss Watch Town Built the World’s Most Influential Turntables

    From music boxes to the TD 124 and beyond — a century of mechanical ingenuity that shaped the way the world listens to records.

    The Turntable That Refused to Die: Linn’s LP12 and the Fifty-Year Argument It Started

    Half a century after Ivor Tiefenbrun set it in motion, the Sondek LP12 remains the most debated, most upgraded, and most alive turntable ever made — a product defined less by what it is than by what it insists you believe.

    The Marantz Model 8B: Fifty Years On, Still the Standard

    Saul Marantz built an amplifier that defined a generation of high fidelity. The Model 8B has never stopped casting its shadow.