$30,000 turntable makes your LPs sound like a million bucks: “In the world of audio products, “high-end” is code for expensive: Each of the new SG1.2 turntables costs $30,000. If you invested in one of the older SG1.1s a few years ago and you’re feeling burned right now by the shiny new business, take a breath: Spiral Groove will upgrade your SG1.1 with all the new tech for just $6,000.“
U-Turn Audio slashes the cost of bona-fide audiophile turntables: “It sells for $309, and that price includes a premounted Grado Black 1 cartridge. The turntable is available in your choice of black, white, red, green or blue, and it comes with a clear plastic dustcover.”
Brooklyn Flea Record Fair DJ lineup revealed; Smorgasburg open now in Prospect Park, coming to Sunset Park this winter: “the 2015 fall Brooklyn Flea Record Fair happens Saturday, September 26 at Smorgasburg in Williamsburg. The vendors were already announced (4AD, Warp, XL, Other Music and more) and now the DJ lineup is here. It includes members of Small Black, Yumi Zouma and Lemonade, label reps from Mute, Ghostly International and Beyond Beyond Is Beyond, record store employees from Captured Tracks Shop, and a WFMU DJ…”
Local stories: Tim Matranga, co-owner of Kicksville Vinyl & Vintage, “What do you do when you have a vinyl record collection of more than 8,000 albums and a passion for vintage, midcentury modern furniture and accessories? Open a store, of course. That is exactly what Tim Matranga and his wife Laura did this May with Kicksville Vinyl & Vintage in the Warehouse Artist Lofts on the R Street Corridor.”
Inventive dad pimped £120 eBay trailer into luxury caravan with vinyl record floor: “But it’s no ordinary holiday home – because it’s got a floor made from broken vinyl records and the outside is cladded with more than 4,000 CDs which he found in a local recycling centre.”
A Chorus Line Album Gets 40th Anniversary Re-Release With Bonus Tracks of Deleted and Rewritten Songs: “The album will also be released in a new audiophile vinyl LP edition. Cut from high-resolution files by Kevin Gray at Cohearent Audio and manufactured on 180-gram vinyl at Memphis Record Pressing, the set will include a digital download card redeemable for the entire 40th Anniversary Celebration set.”
