My good friend David Parson of Classical Vinyl and Electric Recording Company found these adverts in some old French music critics/journals… and guess what there is some really nice Clément ads there among other vintage items. We thought that it was something worth sharing with you. The left advert for Clément shows a very early Clément cartridge […]
I am very pleased (and proud) to present to you Thomas Schick’s latest creation : Some of you might have already recognized that this is a beautiful Commonwealth 12 D turntable… in a beautiful Schick plinth. Notice also the use of Airfeet (that’s why there is a pressure gauge at the back of the turntable) […]
Round Midas and snakewood Uwe bodies Uwe started building wood bodies for Denon DL-103 in the late 90’s. He believed that the plastic body of the DL-103 was a design flaw and his researches proved him right. With these bodies the Denon DL-103 evolves drastically as with this modification you do get much more informations […]
I once had a Koetsu Black. An early one from the eighties, built by Musashino Lab for Koetsu. It had it’s original tip with the boron cantilever and well over two thousand hours of playback. It might seem as an heresy to some of you but it tracked well, there was no sign of distortion […]
French posts and English posts were not behaving properly together. I decided to create another blog to host the frogs. You can find it here : Cala Mighty Sound in French ! On my upcoming website this issue will be solved. Thank you! Something to come (here in a prototype state)… Le messages en français et en […]
Recevoir un bras Schick… c’est chic et ce même quand la poste a maltraité le colis! A l’intérieur? Il ne reste plus qu’à glisser le lève bras dans son embase et serrer la vis qui le maintient avec la clef allen fournie… Le diable se loge dans les détails… ici des embouts de câble et […]
Serious packaging as usual for a safe shipping Most vintage turntables were built for hosting a 9″ tonearm. Of course some of the most famous broadcast turntables are equipped with 12″ tonearms adapted for 16″ record! Think of the superb EMT 927 for instance, but also the Bourdereau and Lie Belin… Beautiful mat silver finition […]
Thomas Schick micoscope’s point of view! Most of the Clément cartridges you will find are equipped with palettes using saphir tips. These tips have a short lifetime and when they are worn out : they will hurt the grooves of your records. With perfectly cleaned mint records in 33RPM it can reach, in best case scenario, […]
My ex beloved Ortofon SPU-A for shellacs only… I never understood why my mono records sounded so bad with stereo cartridges until I discovered real mono cartridges. It all started with an Ortofon SPU-A mono but using an adapter to fit it correctly on a FR-64S did not suit me enough. If only I had […]
Cala Mighty Sound is now distributing Peter Reinders products.Peter has created a full range of products dedicated to the famous Swiss Lenco turntables.He has also created two wonderful turntables based on the Lenco principles.A version for 9″ tonearms called Solid9 (2450€) : And a version for 12″ tonearms, Solid12 (2650€) : Read more about it […]
