The Absolute Sound Guide to Vinyl Playback-2012 is an online buyer’s guide that helps audiophiles and music lovers choose among the latest high-performance turntables, cartridges, tonearms, phonostage preamplifiers, vinyl accessories, and terrific-sounding LPs.

This Guide includes:

• The Absolute Sound Editor’s Top Picks for turntables, tonearms, phono cartridges, and phono preamplifiers.
• Fifteen (15) Expert Reviews of Turntables.
• Twelve (12) Full-Length Reviews of Phono Cartridges.
• Seven (7) Expert Reviews of Phono Preamplifiers.
• On The Horizon—twelve (12) capsules of promising analog gear about to be released.
• The Ten Most Significant Turntables of All Time—a look back at ten turntables that help explain the enduring popularity of vinyl playback.
• Behind the Scenes At Mobile Fidelity—learn what makes this legendary label’s vinyl reissues sound so good.
• The 100 Best-Sounding Vinyl Records—the TAS team recommends recordings that offer the unbeatable combination of great music and superb sound quality.

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