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Ken Micallef  |  Mar 21, 2024  |  6 comments

In the early 1980s, I worked in a pop band playing AM radio hits, grooving
behind my Yamaha drums and Zildjian cymbals as sweat drenched my body and my
ears rang. We danced. We pranced. My shiny silk jumpsuit led upwards to a
2"-high afro, which women ran fingers through in hopes of finding contraband
smokes ... Then overnight, everything changed.

At the beginning of the previous decade, Technics had released the SP-10, the
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Over the last 50 years, I must have installed well over 1000 phono cartridges,
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encounter with a system compatibility problem.

A few months earlier, I had convinced my nonaudiophile dad to upgrade the family
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old ceramic cartridge. Once I figured that out, I tried to convince my dad that
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The Van Zyl Audio Alpine mid-horn speaker ($12,000/pair) is designed to cover a
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