“My biggest discovery

The biggest news this month was not the Tzar’s torque. It was the Lab12 Melto2’s ability to coax the tiniest, most delicate subtleties from every cartridge I tried. It put the Tzar in a tuxedo.

It made the Ortofon 2M Black LVB 250 moving magnet sound like a top-shelf moving coil. It made the Nagaoka MP-200 sound like a Koetsu. It forced all my other phono stages to hide under the bed. At the moment, I can think of no phono stage I’d rather use than the $4995 Lab12 Melto2. Bravo, Stratos Vichos.”

-Herb Reichert