Here's 100 recommended all-analog LP reissues worth owning. The video runs two hours so unless you are masochistic, you might want to watch in shorter segments but covering 100 LPs took time! Plus ...

This drawing explains tone arm basic geometry. Thanks to Wally Malewicz for providing it. So let’s go through it together (because you will be "scrolling" it's probably a good idea to drag the image ...

In the following video interview that is now posted on the AP YouTube channel, Ken Micallef speaks with Acoustic Sounds head honcho Chad Kassem about the upcoming Vinyl Summit that is being held in ...

Back on Wednesday, April 22, 2026, AP editor Mike Mettler and I shared our respective Record Store Day 2026 experiences, along with assessments of some of our purchases that day. (Go here for a ...

Two in a row, everybody knows — at the green light, you rev it on the red line. Gearheads know what I’m talking about here — and so do fans of the blended British/American rock collective known as ...

Three acoustic-driven rock records — one from the 1960s, and two from the 1990s — have recently gotten the Vinylphyle audiophile treatment from UMe. As most regular AP readers likely know, the ...

In the bicentennial year of 1976, progressive pioneers Yes were arguably at the top of their game in terms of their accumulated fanbase and sales clout. Rebounding from December 1973’s excellent but ...

Is it possible to now write anything that hasn’t already been written or said about this record? I haven’t any fresh insights to offer that might advance what you probably already know. A good Kind of ...

Originally released on Tamla on August 28, 1973, Marvin Gaye’s Let’s Get It On LP was a landmark recording that resonated with audiences at the time of its release, and it has continued to do so for ...

It’s always good to hear when companies take in feedback from their customers — and then actually implement changes that heed their end users’ suggestions. Evidently, that’s the case with the recently ...

Today, Hana announces the late-September 2026 release of the MK II version of their E Series nude-elliptical moving-coil (MC) cartridges, but I already got my hands on the first EH MK II! I’m not ...

It was a new day yesterday, and it’s an even newer day now. Yeah, I swapped “even newer” for “older” in the latter half of that borrowed Jethro Tull lyric — but I feel somewhat justified because of a ...