AUDIO-TECHNICA AT-OC9X RANGE
What’s the most important part of a turntable? Vinyl fans debate every aspect of turntable design. Should the plinth be heavy, or light and rigid? Should arms be long or short, straight or S-shaped? What material makes the best platter? Even the mat on the platter gets vigorous debate — rubber, or felt, or cork, or no mat at all?
Yet all these are peripheral to the parts of the turntable which generate the electrical signal which will be amplified into music. The rest is just a supporting system for the vinyl and the components which actually make the sound — the stylus, cartridge, tonearm and signal cables. These receive no power at all, and generate very delicate signals which require thousand-fold amplification prior to that of
