vinyl accessories

Bring the best out of your wax and turntables with add- ons as finely crafted as your favourite albums

1 EAT E-Glo Petit

Many of the best turntables don’t include phono stages, because their focus is just on getting the tracks off the record as cleanly as possible. A phono stage takes the music signals the turntable creates and boosts them to a level ready for an amp to use. Making sure that it stays clear and sounds fantastic is a challenge, but this compact phono achieves it using careful power management and twin valves, with loads of control over impedance and capacitance for tailoring the signal. £1,249, absolutesounds.com

2 SAT CF1-12

Every part of a record player has to be top quality in a serious setup, including the tonearm – and quality doesn’t get any more top than this. Stainless steel pillars and yokes connect to a carbon fibre arm tube, with a headshell design made from carbon fibre and aluminium. The layers of the carbon fibre are hand-laid, and each arm has a unique texture as a result. Every arm is precision machined to the same exact spec, for perfect final results. £44,500, absolutesounds.com

3 Ortofon MC Century cartridge

To celebrate Ortofon’s 100th anniversary, 100 of these amazing cartridges are being made. The housing is a single piece of titanium, built layer on layer from fine particles, with a highly controlled density. The stylus itself is Ortofon’s flagship Replicant 100 unit, made from the finest diamond. For the first time, the stylus is mounted onto a diamond cantilever, with the low mass and high rigidity acting as the perfect connection between stylus and armature. £8,500, henleyaudio.co.uk