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Munich High End 2025 Video 3
By: Michael Fremer

June 3rd, 2025

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Hi-Fi Shows

Munich High End 2025 Video 3—"The Interviews"

hear from the gentlemen designing the products

Ortofon''s Leif Johanssen runs through the new MC-X moving coil cartridge line, explains the design goals and provides all of the details. At appx. 14:35 Andy Whittle, who has resurrected and upgraded the London/Decca cartridge line, shows and tells all, then at 21:10 in the hallway Whittle encounters Johanssen and shows him all of the original London/Decca blueprints—like two kids in a candy store!

At 21:43Studer/Revox veteran, HSE Swiss designer/inventor Robert Huber shows his two new cartridges, one with an impossibly tiny coil former. At 38:36 Cadence Group's Kat Orlian debuts the new SME 35 turntable.

At 40:45 Hans Ole Vitus Nielsen shows his electronics line driving a pair of Göbel speakers.

Supratrac tonearm inventor Richard Braine at 47:39 shows how to wriggle the Nighthawk arm's hanging suspension to adjust azimuth, while at 49:08 Original Live's Mark Baker takes apart the top of the line Voyager turntable.

At 53:44 Heinz Lichtenegger shows his latest acquisition; the legendary Platine Verdier turntable—not the purchase of one, but of the company. The brand had gone extinct. He revived it.

Finally at 58:50 MBL International sales director Antoine Furbur lays an unsolicited endorsement on me.

And THERE WILL BE MORE VIDEOS COMING ASAP.....

 

Comments

  • 2025-06-03 02:00:53 PM

    Come on wrote:

    Nice that the Platine Verdier has a new home! Even in this original status, it’s more than competition up to 10-15 times of its original price and even 4 times of its new price…with the right parts exchanged or upgraded, even better.

  • 2025-06-03 09:38:06 PM

    Jeff 'Glotz' Glotzer wrote:

    I heard the Plantine Verdier at the 1993 CES... Yes, they played Tin Pan Alley... and it was unreal good. THAT was a first super system back then... hooked ever since.

    • 2025-06-03 10:12:04 PM

      Jeff 'Glotz' Glotzer wrote:

      And Antione is right! Over the last 4 decades plus, your passion has helped this entire vinyl resurgence and high-end audio flourish! You were visible at all the right times...