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At last! I've finally got round to doing the much-requested review of these most revered Graham Audio Chartwell LS6/f Loudspeakers... and what joy we had! Constant interruptions, the camera ran out of memory at one point... also I accidentally recorded in slo-mo at one point and carried on talking unawares for 20 minutes and I even got a phone call...

Welcome to the brand new Phonostage Audio website!! We hope you like it - it has been a long time coming! For those of you who don’t know, Phonostage Audio is a trading name of Phonostage Records and many of you will know us already. We have a great reputation with over 2000 followers on Facebook and a superb feedback...

If you are into the fine art of collecting (or just playing!) vinyl records then check out our excellent blog post showing you which equipment and practices to avoid - and which to embrace. Here's the advice you need about the best way to avoid trashing your lovely collection!! If you don't already do these things then you should start now!

Now here's the thing... you may have heard me talking about anoraks in the past. I have a few, some of a very high quality - some less so. I have a DIY anorak, a car restoration anorak (Dolomite Sprint at the moment!), a HUGE Guitar anorak that I just can't get off anymore. A very dysfunctional and not even...

I've not had to go far this week before bumping into some speculative feature about the 'comeback' of cassette tapes. Actually i'm going to rephrase that without the inverted commas... we are talking about the actual comeback of cassette tapes, there's nothing inverted about it, and they would have to come right back - because they went right out! Furthermore I'm...

You know when I was a lad. I would go round to relatives houses or to my mates and everybody would have vinyl records. They'd be in cupboards of various sorts. Or piled up on the sideboard or even scattered round the floor like on the video of 'Brimful Of Asha'. Well that might seem cool now but to some...

It's a good question is that;  Why do I need to clean my vinyl records? and a timely one! I just had someone commenting on the Facebook page about how he is amazed how cleaning a record can rescue a piece of vinyl that looked fit for the bin!! The thing is they are often not as bad as they look...