Analogue music system at Totally Wired

Analogue

Analogue is more than vinyl. It’s music with warmth and realism. If you want to rediscover records, or invigorate an existing turntable based system we have some great analogue options for you. There are no sampling limits in analogue. You have the ability to make continual improvements to any analogue system, revealing more music with ever greater fidelity.

The Best of Turntables, Choosing Your Cartridge, The Value of a Phono Stage

Enjoy great sounding record players from Well Tempered Labs and Consonance ‘Wax Engine.’ Match these with phono cartridges from Dynavector and Nagaoka, phono stages from Well Tempered, Dynavector, and Cambridge Audio.

Revel in the awesome new amplifiers from NuPrime.  Match with the beauty of handmade Sonus faber loud speaker systems from Italy or state-of-the-art Monitor Audio speakers. And tie it all together with the revolutionary  cables from KLEI for pure analogue goodness.

You can get better sound out of records than has ever been possible before and if you compare digital with a new vinyl pressing the record always sounds better.

Our primary source of music at home has always been a turntable. It’s not that we don’t like digital, it’s just that we have a very big record collection and are still buying new vinyl records. We know a whole lot about record player set up and what sounds good because it’s what we enjoy.

When you start to investigate a new record playing system today you’ll quickly find that you are spoilt for choice. We have listened to and sold many turntables over the years. What makes a system sound good comes down to some very simple principles – the quality of design being most important. A record player is inherently simple – it just has to go around at a constant speed, and allow the stylus to do its job in terms extracting information from the groove of the record. The art is in actually achieving this to the standards we expect.

The cool thing about analogue is that there is an infinite amount of information on a LP record. The better the record playing system, the more you’ll hear.

Well Tempered Labs Stylus Force Gauge @totallywired.nz

From Well Tempered Labs we have stylus tracking force scales at just $50 (our go-to item for turntable setup).

You can get these accessories online here.

Or, if headphone listening is you take your pleasure in the specialist Stax headphones.

Well Tempered Labs

All about the The Well Tempered record playing system – doing it differently

We’ve previously focused on specific components within the Well Tempered range but now want to introduce you to the complete Well Tempered Record playing system options; Do you get an even better result by choosing to run with a single designer’s vision, and is the end result more than the sum of the parts? Plus we’ll make a direct comparison to digital.

Wax Engine turntable by Opera Consance @totallywired.nz

The Best of Turntables

Discover the best in record playing systems, turntables, phono stages and cartridges. We know a whole lot about record player set up and what sounds good because it’s what we enjoy. When you start to investigate a new record playing system today you’ll quickly find that you are spoilt for choice. We have listened to and sold many turntables over the years. What makes a system sound good comes down to some very simple principles – –the quality of design being most important….

Take your choice - Cambridge Solo, WTL RIAA, Dynavector P75Mk4, WTL Phono Stage @totallywirednz

The Value of a Phono Stage

The importance and performance gains to be had by selecting a better phono stage or amplifier are easy to underestimate. Until you hear them. Having the personal experience of stepping through a broad range of both cartridges and phono stages it has become obvious that the effect of the latter is at least as much as that of a cartridge. And that the benefit of improving both is cumulative– i.e. you’ll get better value and sound from your turntable system by considering both.

The Dynavector Karat DV17DX moving coil cartridge @totallywirednz

Choosing Your Cartridge

The stylus and cartridge are very much the business end of any record playing system, being in direct contact with the LP and converting the physical movement of the stylus into the electrical signal which flows through your hifi system. So your choice of phono cartridge will have an immediate and direct bearing on the sound you hear. There are a myriad of optiopns from entry level Nagoaka to state of the art – we’ve got the perfect choice for almost every turntable and level of expectation. 

Bassocontinuo

‘You can’t eliminate vibration but you can always reduce it’

This simple statement from Lorenzo Belloli the founder and CEO of Bassocontinuo, during a zoom meeting with us in July 2023, is one of those wonderful moments of clarity. It defines what makes Bassocontinuo better.