In the golden age of vinyl, not every audiophile could splash out on exotic exotica—but Max Townshend changed the game with the Townshend Rock turntable, transforming a pricey prototype into a bulletproof powerhouse of engineering that put elite sound within reach of the masses. As Jonathan Gorse details in The Ear’s riveting head-to-head showdown, “Rock […]
The debate over speaker cables—do they really sound different, or is it all placebo?—just got a fresh jolt from Headphonesty’s September 2025 article, “Standard Tests Have Been Hiding What Makes Cables Sound Different for Decades,” where veteran engineer Joakim Juhl (of OePhi Cables) dismantles the myth that frequency response (FR) and total harmonic distortion (THD) […]
The difference wasn’t trivial.”
In a world where hi-fi headlines scream about six-figure behemoths, it’s downright rebellious to celebrate the underdogs—those vintage turntables that, according to thousands of audiophiles polled by Headphonesty, still smoke today’s high-tech platters in sheer musical magic. Alexandra Plesa’s freshly updated roundup, “20 Best Vintage Turntables That Still Outperform Modern Decks” (dropped September 30, 2025), […]
