Every Audiophile Needs to See What Is Inside These Speakers
About this episode
Rich from Monarch Systems discusses advanced speaker and turntable technologies with a focus on engineering and craftsmanship.
Rich from Monarch Systems sits down and unpacks some of the most engineering forward speaker and turntable technology in the world right now. We are talking speakers built with ceramic foam and copper foam inside the cabinet, spiderless drivers, glass cladding, and a modular flagship that was sold in only 10 pairs at a quarter million dollars. And then there is the turntable story that almost sounds too good to be true. Garrard, a company that started as a jeweler making crown jewels, is now rebuilding their legendary 301 idler wheel turntables from the ground up using original paint recipes, original rubber mat molds, and a brand new rubber formulation for the idler wheel that makes the whole thing run in complete silence. This is the kind of episode audiophiles share with each other. The level of craft, history, and engineering obsession packed into this conversation is genuinely rare and Rich clearly loves every bit of it. Whether you are a speaker person, a vinyl person, or both, there is something in here that is going to make you want to dig deeper.
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