Finding your groove: getting into vinyl with Audio-Technica
I’d like to think that I could’ve been friends with the late Hideo Matsushita, founder of Japanese Hi-Fi powerhouse Audio-Technica. If I could, I’d travel back in time to 1960’s Tokyo, where a young Matsushita curated “vinyl listening sessions” at the Bridgestone Museum of Arts, exposing visitors to the sounds and possibilities of high end audio and the warmth of vinyl records. I imagine sitting with him in a mod coffee shop, listening to the stories of what he witnessed in those sessions, the conversations he had with visitors, and what ultimately motivated him to head back to his small apartment above a ramen restaurant and start an audio company of his own. In the histories I’ve read regarding AT’s humble beginnings, Matsushita’s motives seem clear. Produce high end audio at affordable prices, bringing audio excellence into spaces and to customers that simply didn’t have access to it before. His first two products, the AT-1 and AT-3 phono cartridges did exactly that, and...
Dec 6, 2023
I backed this product(and many others) : https://www.massdrop.com/buy/massdrop-x-ps-audio-sprout-ii
We basically ly financed the Sprout 2 and today the doorbell rings.... A brand new Sprout. !!
This sprout is the generic sprout 100 that just got released and is currently sold everywhere.
On top of that it’s the same price as what I paid 6 months prior to help finance this project. (599)
Not one extra sticker. Not an extra cable. Not one particular spec difference between this and the PS Audio Sprout 100 because it simply is a prout 100.
I feel like I just got shaffted, big time.
I (and many others) were expecting a product that was branded differently because it was sold that way. I was also expecting at least a price discount off the shelf Sprout 100! Isn’t that what this site is supposed to be all about... Why would you not tell us we were receiving the exact product!
Not cool PS Audio and Massdrop, Not Cool...
I was not expecting this from respectable company’s such as yours.