Welcome to the August, 2023 version of Report Roundup. Featured this month in my roundup of all issues vinyl are next-gen Orbit turntables from U-Flip Audio, a pair of turntable-friendly amplifiers from Rotel, 10 yr celebrations for the Vinyl Me Please document subscription service and a sequence of forty fifth anniversary purple vinyl releases from Rhino Data.
U-Flip Audio Launches Subsequent-Gen Orbit Turntables
Subsequent era Orbit turntables launched
U-Flip Audio
Supporters of made-in-America merchandise and document collectors searching for inexpensive, top quality turntables will recognize the most recent releases from U-Flip Audio. The model behind the favored Orbit turntable lineup designs and assembles its merchandise at a Woburn, MA manufacturing facility. The corporate is launching three new, next-gen variations of its widespread Orbit turntables: the Orbit Fundamental entry degree, best-seller Orbit Plus and the Orbit Particular with upgraded elements and options together with an Ortofon 2M Purple cartridge.
U-Flip Audio co-founder and Orbit designer Bob Hertig speaks to his firm’s contribution to the rising variety of document fanatics:
“Our mission is to make nice analog audio extra accessible. During the last decade, we’ve constructed and shipped lots of of hundreds of Orbits throughout North America and have earned a popularity for high-level efficiency and high quality craftsmanship that doesn’t break the financial institution. This new era of Orbit represents a decade of expertise, studying, and turntable improvement. We had been capable of take one thing that was already nice and make it even higher.”
Search for my evaluate of one in all these thrilling new Orbit turntables shortly.
Two New Turntable-Pleasant Rotel Amplifiers
Rotel is a reputation that vinyl followers have recognized for many years, with the corporate producing Hello-Fi audio tools together with amplifiers for over six many years.
Rotel has simply launched a pair of upgraded, turntable-friendly amplifiers as a part of its Tribute Sequence, every with a Transferring Magnet PHONO stage.
The A10MKII Built-in Amplifier (MSRP $599) gives 2 x 50W output, 67 part upgrades in comparison with the earlier mannequin and contains an IR distant management. The A10MKII Built-in Amplifier additionally gives 2 x 50W output and provides options together with aptXTM HD and AAC Bluetooth wi-fi streaming, a TI 32-bit/384kHz DAC and motorized quantity management.
Rhino Reds Report Sequence
In celebration of its forty fifth anniversary, Rhino Data has launched a “Rhino Reds” sequence of purple vinyl information. The Reds sequence contains particular person releases of basic albums akin to The Doobie Brothers’ Minute By Minute (with bonus 7-inch singles), together with a number of bundle collections. Collectors who’re searching for a shot of coloured vinyl for his or her document bins can get their purple repair beginning at beneath $30 a pop.
Vinyl Me Please Celebrates a Decade of Serving to Report Followers Develop Their Collections
Lastly, for many who need to broaden their document assortment, curated subscription service Vinyl Me Please is celebrating 10 years of providing month-to-month document deliveries. Memberships begin at $36/month with bonus information accessible primarily based on the size of time period you join, and over 250 unique titles to select from. Included within the Vinyl Me Please catalog are new and basic albums in a variety of genres, lots of that are provided in distinctive, coloured and patterned vinyl pressings.
Missed the final Report Roundup? Yow will discover July’s version (that includes three new turntables starting from $300 to $60,000) right here.
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