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Wednesday 28 August 2019

Cambridge Audio’s Alva TT is the fancypants Bluetooth turntable I didn’t know I wanted


To high-end audio enthusiast, the idea of a Bluetooth turntable seems almost oxymoronic. Part of the core appeal of a turntable is that it’s pretty much the only way to listen to music through a completely analog signal chain (ignoring the fact most modern pressings are mixed digitally). Introducing the digital compression of Bluetooth to that chain just seems…. wrong. But when Cambridge Audio, a British company with a storied hi-fi history, decides to make a Bluetooth turntable, I pay attention – even if that turntable costs $1,700. A disclaimer: I’m not one of those audiophiles who think “vinyl is analog,…

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