Vertere Acoustics MG-1 Mk II/Mystic
■ Turntable package
■ £9300
“This deck is clearly a product of fresh thinking that embraces the latest engineering methods and materials”
Vertere Acoustics is a hard company to define. It was founded around a decade ago and focused on some quite extravagantly designed high-end cables. That range has since expanded to cover most price points, but in 2013 the company took what looked to be a left turn by producing a statement record player.
Making a high-end turntable may not seem the most logical of steps for a cable company, but Vertere has stuck at it, slowly increasing its range of vinyl-related products to include other decks, arms, a cartridge and supports, not forgetting own-brand records too. So don’t write off Vertere as a cable company just dabbling in turntables. The mastermind behind the company is none other than Touraj Moghaddam (see interview on p24), founder of Roksan and designer of that company’s long-running, innovative and rather brilliant Xerxes and
