What goes around, comes around… Dead and buried in the early 90’s, vinyl is now the preferred format for most quality recordings. It is very easy today to buy a turntable, they can be found everywhere. But if you want to extract all of the music from your records, you need to sit down and think about how it is going to happen. Playing a record is actually quite a feat of engineering. The record player must maintain a perfect speed and support a tonearm. The tonearm needs to balance a delicate cartridge on one end and couple itself to a noisy turntable at the other. And, of course, the phono cartridge must be up to the task of accurately reproducing the music found in the grooves. Every turntable, tonearm and cartridge have a distinct personality individually and collectively. To get the most out of your records, you need an experienced partner that can guide you through the differences and allow you to build a turntable that will take your music to new heights. There is no single answer and although packaged turntables seem to be a good idea, more often than not they are compromised for the sake of efficiency.