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VINY LP

The digizine for discerning music lovers

VINY

June 2010 Issue 1

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Cast of Characters

Publisher,

Editor-in-Chief Rich Teer

Graphical design Jenny Teer

Reviewers and

contributing

writers

Annie St. Jean,

John Adrian Spijkers

Advertising Rich Teer

Website rite-online.net

www.vinylphilemag.com

Got questions or comments?

Please send them to:

rich@vinylphilemag.com

(250) 317-2210

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Contents

Features

Editorial

Obituary

Remembering the Godfather of punk, Malcolm

McLaren, who passed away in April.

By Rich Teer

Dealer Spotlight

We pay a visit to Vernon’s The Hi Fi Attic.

By Rich Teer

Reader’s System

Greg from Vernon is the subject of our irst Reader’s

System.

By Rich Teer

Annie’s Audio Adventures

Annie plays with a Grant Fidelity tube buffer. Does

she like what she hears?

By Annie St. Jean

Final Words

Advertisers Index

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Equipment Reviews

Record Reviews

Allnic Audio Labs H-1200

Is this entry-level tube phono stage from Korea’s

Allnic Audio any good? We ind out.

By Rich Teer

Record Reviews

We have a listen to some new (and some not so

new) rock, pop, jazz, and classical records.

By Vinylphile staff

MartinLogan Spire

The irst hybrid to beneit from their CLX lagship’s

technology, MartinLogan’s Spire impresses us.

By Rich Teer

Nordost Frey

We check out the top of Nordost’s Norse series of

interconnects and speaker cables.

By Rich Teer

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Editorial

turntables and cartridges now and then,

but most of their software reviews are

about CDs. Vinylphile will turn this on its

head: we’ll be focusing on vinyl records

and playing equipment, with only an

incidental nod to the digital world.

into stores’ magazine racks—it makes

no difference for a digital publication.

So for the foreseeable future, we’ll be

sticking to our 305 mm x 305 mm page

size.

Editorial Philosophies

There are a couple of reasons for the

digital-only distribution. First, digital

distribution means that we completely

eliminate printing and distribution

expenses, thereby allowing us to make

the magazine available to you at no cost.

All you need is an Internet connection

to download it, and you can read the

magazine from anywhere in the world.

Second, we free ourselves from the

print-magazine constraint of having to

use a certain number of pages, so our

articles can be as long (or as short) as

necessary. One of my pet peeves is

reading reviews that deliberately omit

information due to a lack of room. And

inally, by sticking to digital distribution,

we’re doing our bit to save the planet

and its precious resources: we won’t be

cutting down trees to print the magazine,

and we won’t be using up fossil fuels and

contributing to the greenhouse effect by

delivering it.

So, exactly what is Vinylphile, and what

do we stand for? Our goal is to provide

readers with an informative—and,

hopefully, interesting—magazine. In

addition to the regular record and gear

reviews, we will publish other audio and

music related feature articles we think

you’d like to read. These include dealer

and factory visits, reader’s systems,

audio show reports, and the occasional

technical article. What we don’t intend

to publish are “lifestyle” articles, like

reviews of cameras and watches. It’s

not that we don’t like those items—we

do—but we don’t want the magazine’s

scope to wander too far from our initial

vision of a freely-downloadable, vinyl-

centric audio mag.

H i there, and welcome to the irst

issue of Vinylphile , the digizine

for discerning music lovers! In

this magazine, we’ll be reviewing vinyl

records, and everything you need to play

them: turntables, tonearms, cartridges,

phono stages, ampliiers, speakers,

accessories, and so on. The magazine is

vinyl-centric, not vinyl-exclusive, so we

will also review digital gear sometimes.

We might even take an occasional look at

multichannel audio, but we’ll be leaving

home theatre coverage to our friends in

other magazines.

We take our responsibilities as a source

of reviews very seriously. You, the

reader, are entitled to honest reviews, so

that you can make informed purchasing

decisions. Note that we are not in

any way suggesting that you take our

reviews as gospel; the only way you can

tell whether a piece of gear is for you

is to audition it yourself, preferably in

your own system. The best we can do

is make some recommendations about

what gear to try (or to avoid).

Digital distribution also allows us to be

innovative about the magazine’s form

factor: it’s no accident that Vinylphile’s

square pages are 305 mm (or 12”)

on each side—it’s the same size and

shape as an LP’s sleeve! Whereas a

different form factor might prove to be

a disadvantage for a print magazine—if

only because it makes it awkward to it

So why another audio magazine, and

why the digital-only distribution? The

reason for another magazine is pretty

simple: I’ve always loved music on vinyl,

and noticed that most, if not all, of the

usual magazines tend to have limited

vinyl-related coverage. Sure, they review

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