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Goldring may be able to trace its roots back (slightly) further, but Ortofon is definitely one of the old guard of audio. The company invented the moving-coil cartridge in 1948 and its legendary (for once not an overstatement) SPU model from 1959 is still in production, in various guises. The current range runs to 38 distinct models of cartridge, from the £40-odd OM5E to the Windfeld at over £2,000 – and that’s not including the DJ range, which has even more market dominance than the hi-fi products. Many classic LPs were mastered with an Ortofon cutterhead – the ‘inverse’ of cartridge that cuts grooves in response to an electric signal

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Apart from its highly-regarded headphones, Grado makes quite a wide range of cartridges such as this one, the Grado Reference Master 1. This is unusual in one particular respect: all of them come under the broad heading of ‘moving magnet’. The majority of high-end cartridges, now and back to the 1950s, have used the moving-coil principle, but Grado explains on its website why this is not necessarily the answer to all the world’s ills and resolutely produces high-end moving-magnet designs. Some of these are low-output types that will connect to the ‘moving coil’ input on a phono amp, but the Reference Master 1 is one is a ‘traditional’ high-output cartridge. Apart from the business of output voltage, however, this cartridge behaves more like a moving-coil type.

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Optical drives aren’t potatoes. You can’t boil them, mash them, or stick ‘em in a stew. And by that, I mean there’s simply not that much you can do with your average digital coffee holder. Optical drives read CDs. Optical drives write CDs

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