Finding your groove: getting into vinyl with Audio-Technica
I’d like to think that I could’ve been friends with the late Hideo Matsushita, founder of Japanese Hi-Fi powerhouse Audio-Technica. If I could, I’d travel back in time to 1960’s Tokyo, where a young Matsushita curated “vinyl listening sessions” at the Bridgestone Museum of Arts, exposing visitors to the sounds and possibilities of high end audio and the warmth of vinyl records. I imagine sitting with him in a mod coffee shop, listening to the stories of what he witnessed in those sessions, the conversations he had with visitors, and what ultimately motivated him to head back to his small apartment above a ramen restaurant and start an audio company of his own. In the histories I’ve read regarding AT’s humble beginnings, Matsushita’s motives seem clear. Produce high end audio at affordable prices, bringing audio excellence into spaces and to customers that simply didn’t have access to it before. His first two products, the AT-1 and AT-3 phono cartridges did exactly that, and...
Dec 6, 2023
This shot is a bit out of date (Always a work in progress) still has old turntable
Cartridge ortofon MC Quintet Blue SUT Ortofon Verto modified Tonearm modified rega RB300
Phono Vincent PHO-700 heavily modified: with an amperex holland ecc82, upgraded caps, redone circuit board with Mundorf silver solidcore wire, upgraded terminals, upgraded opamps to burson V6 Vivid, Power supply upgraded in kind and psu cable and terminals replaced with lemo connectors Custom interconnects for the analog portions in mundorf silver solid core wire furutech connectors
Phoenix engineering Falcon PSU and roadrunner with custom laser based tachometer
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