Putting Curtains in the Man-Cave

The Koru's understated yet solid front face Cue music playing of the Elton John Variety "Will you go get it?" "No, you go get it!" "It's all the way over there, I don't care enough to get it." Thus ends the Mancave's statement about album art and liner notes.  For those keeping track, it was "Funeral for a Friend" and how silly is that to fuss over? No, we don't read liner notes, or gaze lovingly at the album art.  If this makes us overly honest, or philistines, I couldn't tell you.  I am skeptical that lot of people pour over it at all, and find people listing this as one of their favorite things about vinyl, are either overselling it, are crazy and actually do it.  But in reality, we spin disks and stream files for no other reason but the music - and for us the closer it sounds to what was actually laid down, the more we enjoy it - good liner notes, or not. This attiude not only keeps us vinyl fans, i...

We're trying on the Plinius Koru phono stage in our system.  And with our limited experience, we can say each phono we have tried brough a very strong character to the sound.  So much so, that my inner electrical engineer was having a bit of a caniption fit since something that is an amplifier, and EQ circuit built to a specification shouldn't change the character of the sound so much ... yet each did.  We'll try to give you guys a feel of what we experienced when we tried out this wonder from New Zealand. Enter the Koru Our friendly local audiphile dealer came by to pick up his box of crack tweaks, and with a wink and a smile dropped off this phono stage for us to "have a listen."  There was a gleam in his eye when he did this, and took off at a high rate of speed.  I think we see tire marks in the street in front of our house and we heard maniacal laughter as he pealed out, though that could be my imagination. Looks, and Yes, they DO matter ... Look...