Come and join us for a 100% vinyl playback week-end in the center of Paris on the 22 and 23 of April 2017. Cool and Workers 30-34 rue du chemin vert 75011 Paris – France Experience our 100% harmless and positive digital detox (c) healing formulas for your ears, bodies, soul(s) ! Our remedies ? Three different […]
We knew that a darker Schick tonearm had appeared somewhere in Asia. We hoped that it would reach us one day. This day as come. Not only it is darker, but it can be absolutely black… It also comes with some serious improvements !! So what is new with this new tonearm version ? An […]
We will be, next week-end, at the Haute-Fidélité show in Paris (Marriott Hotel, Rive Gauche). We have though about a special selection of items to bring to you… – a workshop that will allow you to get a free diagnostic on your moving coils (MC) cartridges – the new furniture made in Cala Mighty Sound, the […]
Thomas – Ok. You asked for blue? (heavy german accent) Me – Yes, Thomas. (à la French) Thomas – Are you vertig? (very solemn) Me – Yes Thomas… (getting seriously worried) Thomas – Allez, les Bleus. Louis XIV – Le bras, c’est moi (Perfect german French accent… and nearly perfect quotation of the French king […]
I had quite a few requests about Schick plinths designed for the Garrard 301. Here is one of the first plinths photos. It is designed for a 12″ tonearm with, here, a Schick tonearm armboard. Armboards can be designed to fit nearly any tonearm fixation pattern. As you can see the plinth is CNC cut to […]
Most vintage turntable users are (quite) obsessed in finding the best plinth available for there precious turntables. Common materials to deal with resonances and vibrations during record playback are mostly : wood, stone, metal or the very fashionable corian. Thomas Schick decided to go his own way. His main axis of research was effective damping. What […]
We have now Thomas Schick latest Graphite Headshell in stock and ready for dispatch… These are waiting for you and will be delivered in dedicated boxes with a set of non magnetic screws We also have some Midas “normal” square edges bodies and limited edition round edges bodies. Both are the latest version with lateral screw […]
As the first birthday of Cala Mighty Sound is coming in a few hours… I have decided to share with you a few new items that are now available for you! Let’s start with the brand new Schick Graphite headshell. You might have seen it in some of my previous pictures with no finger lift. […]
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 […]
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 […]
