Today’s Top Tonearms Can Cost as Much as a Car
With the advent of cassette tapes and then CDs, the popularity of records slowed down, but despite the increased use of digital music files in recent years, the last decade or two of retro revival has helped vinyl come back back in a big way. And while most consumers think a turntable is all you need to play records, the audiophile wormhole goes much, much deeper. The tonearm is the critical component connecting the phono cartridge—which houses the needle that extracts the analog audio signal from the grooves in the record—to the turntable and transferring the delicate analog signal to the phonostage (or preamplifier).
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