Editor’s Choice

• Podcast: Laurence Dickie discusses Vivid Kaya 90, S12 loudspeakers 21st February 2025
  Laurence Dickie is (perhaps) best known for co-designing the Bowers & Wilkins Nautilus in the early 90s. Nowadays, Dickie heads up engineering at Vivid Audio where – from his Brighton base – he designs loudspeakers that are manufactured in South Africa. Vivid loudspeakers look unusual not to play it clever-clever […] The post Podcast: Laurence […]
• Set off your turntable with Reliable’s UberLight Frame 18th February 2025
  New from the Reliable Corporation, makers of the UberLight Flex, comes the UberLight Frame, a premium turntable light designed for the more discerning vinyl enthusiast with deeper pockets. Inside the box, the right-angled cast aluminium UberLight Frame ships with a choice of three vertical mounts: a freestanding weight, a desk […] The post Set off […]
• A turntable weight that looks like a giant ecstasy pill 17th February 2025
  Berlin’s H.A.N.D. Hifi, an offshoot of Kreuzberg record store Sound Metaphors, is known as a designer and builder of bespoke active loudspeakers for clubs and smaller listening spaces. So far, so safe. However, H.A.N.D. Hifi’s latest product, a turntable weight introduced in the back half of 2024, repeatedly skirts the […] The post A turntable […]