Analog Gear News

We here at AP hope everyone had a safe, happy, healthy, and fun holiday season, replete with as much vinyl-spinning as your ears, turntables, and systems could handle! To kick the new year off right, we’re going to look at a cool new piece of equipment that caught our collective eye — namely, the Musical Fidelity M6xTT turntable. Read on to see all that the mighty M6xTT has to offer. . .

Can it be we’re just days away from High End Munich 2025? (That was a rhetorical question, mind you.) As we await Munich 2025’s official start later this week, we’ll be previewing some of the new gear that’s launching/debuting at the big show, including the Nagaoka MP-700 cartridge. Read on to see how this respected Japanese company plans to honor their 85th anniversary with the MP-700 cart. . .

While we have indeed been focused on featuring more reasonably priced gear here on AP of late, we do still want to recognize some higher-end, high-caliber products as well — besides, we love looking at aspirational gear as much as most audiophiles do, you know? With that in mind, we turn our lens onto the Nagra Reference turntable, a truly high-end model if ever there was. Read on to see all the specs and features that make this table worthy of joining Nagra’s impressive Reference line — and, oh yeah, to also find out what its not-so-insignificant SRP happens to be. . .