Vinyl gear that earns its price — tonearm and cartridge guides, real setup steps, and honest tier comparisons.
What Vinylgearhq Covers
This site is a working reference for turntables, cartridges, phono stages, and vinyl playback. We publish:
- Buyer’s guides — comparison tables of equipment at every price tier, with notes on what matters and what doesn’t.
- How-to articles — practical, tested procedures with the failure modes that come up in real homes and shops.
- Background explainers — the underlying technology, math, or biology so the buyer’s guides make sense.
Articles are organized into hub-and-spoke clusters around vinyl records and turntables’s major subtopics, so once you land on one piece of writing you can navigate the whole topic from there.
Who Writes This
Vinylgearhq is written by Kenny Nyhus Fadil, who also publishes a small network of niche reference sites. I inherited a Pioneer PL-12D turntable and a pile of LPs in 2017 and have rebuilt or upgraded six tables since. VinylGearHQ collects the alignment, anti-skate, and azimuth tutorials that finally got cartridge tracking right.
If a topic on this site falls outside what I’ve personally tested, I’ll say so in the article and link to the primary sources I’m relying on. Where there’s a manufacturer claim I haven’t independently verified, I’ll mark it as such.
Editorial Standards
- Independent. Vinylgearhq accepts review samples but never guaranteed-positive coverage. We disclose review-sample relationships in the article where applicable.
- Affiliate-funded. The site is supported by affiliate commissions on outbound product links. Recommendations are not influenced by which retailer pays the highest commission. See our Disclaimer for full details.
- Updated. We revisit articles at least annually and add an “updated” date when we make material changes. Pricing, model availability, and software versions move fast — if something on the page is stale, email and we’ll fix it.
- Corrections welcomed. If you spot an error, write to [email protected]. Real corrections get noted in the article body.
What We Don’t Do
We don’t publish sponsored posts disguised as editorial. We don’t accept link-injection requests from SEO agencies. We don’t run press-release republishing. If a manufacturer wants coverage they can mail a unit for review, knowing the review will be honest.
Get In Touch
Questions, corrections, review-sample inquiries, or topic requests: [email protected].