Townshend Audio Rock 7 Turntable (TAS 209) REVIEW by Robert E. Greene Dec 28, 2010
The original Townshend Rock Reference turntable is one of the legends of audio. Unusual and inventive in design and fabulous in sound, but never widely available, the Rock Reference is now a rare collector’s item. Its less expensive successor, the Rock III, also offered extraordinary sound quality and many of the same unique design features […]
Golden Ear Award for the Rock and Trough: Reviving Vinyl Playback with the Ingenious Approach of Townshend Audio
Decades ago, Townshend Audio made a groundbreaking contribution to the world of vinyl playback with the introduction of the Rock Reference turntable. With design input from Jack Dinsdale and John Bugge at the Cranfield Institute of Technology, this innovative system featured a unique method for damping the tone arm at the cartridge end via […]
Birth Of The Rock
by Jack Dinsdale Conception My initial ideas for what has become the Rock family of high performance record players were conceived in the late 1960s and early 1970s, not as a “big bang” (in any sense of the expression) but as the gradual coming together of a number of disparate ideas. The origins of these […]