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4285 South Broadwa y

Englewood, Colorado 80110

303-789-5310

Hours: Tuesday thru Friday: 11AM to 6PM – Saturday: 11AM to 5PM

( 7 Blocks South of Hampden; 6 Blocks North of Belleview )

( Broadway & Quincy )

Serving the Denver area for over 37 years…

Click here for detailed area map

High Quality Audio and Video Equipment

Audiophile ~ Home Theater

Pro Sound Equipment ~ Speakers Parts Kits

Used LP Albums and CDs

New and Used Equipment

Gold Sound Understands Value…

All equipment is selected upon a quality to value ratio weighted towards exceptional quality and a superb value.

We're proud of what we sell… Unlike big box stores, we offer personal service and no hassle sales.

Gold Sound's Turntable Page

VPI Classic

VPI are made in America

Gold sound has the all new VPI Traveler in stock…

Gold Sound has Pro-Ject Turntables…

Sumiko Pro-Ject RM 1.3

The Pro-Ject RM 1.3, Debut III Carbon and the Essential turntables are in stock… most of the time…

All in stock, limited quantities:

TURNTABLES, made in Europe, 3 year warranty

Pro-Ject T1, Carbon Evo, Carbon Pro. Rega P3

BOOKSHELF SPEAKERS, 5 year warranty from $499/pair:

Dali Oberon 1 & 3. Psb Alpha P3.

TOWER SPEAKERS, 5 year warranty:

Dali Oberon 7.

Powered Speakers: Yamaha Bx50.

Yamaha Sub Nsw050, $170.

INTEGRATED AMPS from $499: DENON, MARANTZ, ROTEL.

Av Receivers: Marantz, Denon.

Parasound Preamps/Amps: P6, A23+.

Tube Integrated Amps: Prima Luna Evo400.

CDs from $479: DENON DCD600NE. ROTEL A11.

BLUESOUND DIGITAL STREAMERS from $599: NODE, POWERNODE.

GRADO HEADPHONES, HANDMADE IN NY from $99:

SR60, SR80, SR125, SR225, SR325, RS2x, wood and leather.

We're open Tue.-Fri. 11-6, Sat. 11-5. Recently customers bought home turntables, receivers, amps, tape decks, subs, speakers, etc. The only parts we sell are new home stereo cables, new Grado headphones, new Ortofon & Grado phono cartridges & needles. We only work on units bought here: new speakers, new turntables & vintage audio. Call us at 303 789-5310. Thanks for your support for 45 years.

"Thanks for keeping the vinyl love alive! I'm going to stop in to see your LPs."

"Your willingness to teach me about taking care of my records and 'table made a great impression on me. I'd love to keep going to you for my analog needs!"

STEREOPHILE & ABSOLUTE SOUND have both praised our wide analog selection. ABSOLUTE SOUND said "Gold Sound simply had too many turntables to even begin to judge them. VPI, Rega P3, Thorens, Pro-Ject. The list is seemingly endless. Gold Sound premiered a Thorens. It sure looked awesome and offered further testament to the boom in vinyl."

Gold Sound stocks over 100 new / used 'tables, plus many cartridges, phono preamps and accessories. We display 15 new 'tables, mostly from Europe and over 50 guaranteed used 'tables. The 5 most affordable 'tables recommended by STEREOPHILE , as well as the 5 recommended by ABSOLUTE SOUND are here. STEREOPHILE and ABSOLUTE SOUND recommend 80+ Gold Sound turntable-related products. No other Colorado store has this selection of affordable through high end 'tables, cartridges, phono preamps and record cleaners.

We stock PRO-JECT T1, CARBON EVO and other 'tables. T1 has an ORTOFON OM5 cartridge and a glass platter. T1 phono SB has a built-in phono preamp. CARBON EVO is the most popular European-made turntable in Europe & the U.S. It includes a carbon fiber tonearm, $150 Sumiko cartridge, three speeds [33/45/78 rpm] and a much thicker and heavier base. T1 and CARBON EVO are available with a walnut or black base.

All New 2023 Vinyl Systems

Looking for great sound in a beautiful system you can enjoy for many years? We have many choices. STEREOPHILE, ABSOLUTE SOUND & other leading magazines praise our systems. Come hear why people from 50 states, 30 nations & audio pros working for other dealers & manufacturers are our customers.

All amps/receivers have remotes, bass/treble controls, 4+ inputs & outputs for speakers & headphones. Systems include cables. Turntables include diamond needle cartridges, hinged plexiglass dust covers, cueing & 33/45rpm speeds.

TURNTABLES, Over 40 VINTAGE + Dozens of NEW, Colorado's best selection, used guaranteed 100 days, parts/labor + 100% 100 day trade-in; all serviced, look fine + sound great, w/good cartridges, diamond needles, cables, covers. We have many new/vintage 'tables with wood bases; manuals & automatics & some with 33/45/78 rpm. All our tables have 33/45. NEW tbles have 1-3 year warranties.

Vintage Turntables

Colorado's best selection, guaranteed 100 days, parts/labor + 100% 100 day trade-in; all serviced, look fine, sound great, w/good cartridge, diamond needle, cables, cover. We have many new/vintage 'tables with wood bases; manuals, automatics & some 33/45/78rpm. All our tables have 33/45. NEW tables have 1-3 year parts/labor warranties.

Vintage: Dual 1258.

ELAC/MIRACORD 16/33/45/78rpm: 50H w/walnut base.

JVC automatic direct drive table w/pitch coontrol, strobe.

MARANTZ 4200 direct drive automatic.

MIRACORD 50H 16/33/45/78 changers w/walnut base.

TECHNICS D20 direct drive w/strobe, pitch.

TECHNICS automatic belt drive table: SLB350.

THORENS w/walnut base: TD124 w/Ortofon arm, TD125, TD126, TD146, TD165, TD166 II, TD224.

+ many more.

We stock many new European Pro-Ject turntables with three year warranties including wood bases, Ortofon cartridge, cables and dust cover with metal hinges. Many stores regard turntables as the newest fads. For 30 years, we've sold more turntables than all other sound sources combined. We stock many cartridges: U.S. made Grado, Danish Ortofon and Japanese Sumiko. We have many record cleaners, phono preamps and accessories.

When you buy a turntable here, we'll show you how to set it up, including balancing the cartridge. Other stores and internet sellers usually can't, won't or don't know how to do this. If the cartridge is not set up properly, the turntable will not sound right, plus the cartridge and your records can be damaged. We know turntables.

Denver's record stores highly recommend Gold Sound. These stores have thousands of records, new / used, in Denver, five miles or less from our store.

Angelo's Records, 2000 S.Broadway

Wax Trax, 638 E. 13th Av., 303 860-0127

Preamps & Cartridges

LEHMAN / ORTOFON Phono preamp

ORTOFON Cartridges OM10, 2M Red, 2M Blue

PRO-JECT PHONO PREAMPS, All made in Europe

PHONO BOX MM for moving magnet cartridges, $90

LEHMAN made in Germany for moving magnet/moving coil, with adjustable gain and impedance.

STEREO AMPLIFIERS with phono preamps:

Marantz, Yamaha

TONEARMS : Ortofon, Rega

TURNTABLES with built-in phono preamp : Audio-Technica, Denon, Pro-Ject

4,000+ LPs: Rock, Jazz, Classical, Opera, Big Band, Country & Folk. Local sales only.

WHY LPs ARE SO POPULAR

CD sales have steadily dropped as turntable sales have strongly increased. People of all ages and backgrounds buy turntables. Some are in their teens or twenties buying their first sound system. Some are much older and have had records and turntables for many years.

1] LPs SOUND BETTER

An LP sounds much better than digital recordings. Neil Young and many other musicians greatly prefer the sound of an LP over a CD. A musician who has made many analog and digital recordings said that analog sounds better for strings, voices and piano.

"The most dramatic revelations [of turntables' superior sound are] 3 areas.

DYNAMICS much closer to real instruments.

STAGING LP dimensionality highlights a sense of space dramatically better. It's not even close.

INSTRUMENT TONE The LP sounded much more genuine. SOUND & VISION

"The same music on a good condition LP sounds better than a CD and far better than MP3 or i-Pod. An LP has better imaging, soundstage and a warmer, more natural sound. A violin or piano sounds more like the real instrument, instead of an electric violin or piano." TIME

"I wanted to see if a table could truly outperform CD players costing many times more – a statement I'd often heard. There was never a question of telling the CD/SACD from the LP; the record being fuller, more organic & 3 dimensional. Individual instruments embodied more reality & distinguished themselves more clearly. Trumpets & other brass had all the "blare," but none of the "glare" I was used to hearing. A more defined & solid sound stage emerged time after time, due to the LP's higher information density. I was pleasantly surprised by the lack of "clicks" or "pops" & the very quiet background." HOME ENTERTAINMENT

"Between LP and CD, there's no comparison! The LP breathes life into the sound, a far-from-subtle difference. Vinyl communicates the music's emotional pull better than any digital format.

You enjoy the music more on LP. One of the great Audiophile Truths: The best way to enjoy digital is never listen to analog. If you want to know why vinyl is still going strong nearly three decades after the introduction of the CD, listen to a great turntable." HOME ENTERTAINMENT

"You'll be in for a shock when you listen to a 1st class turntable. You'll hear oodles of texture, body and harmonics that CDs never fully convey. The best analog is more transparent, its dynamics livelier and more life-like." STEREOPHILE

"The vinyl record is the only widely available, truly high definition home format, sonically and emotionally superior. CD's 20k bandwidth limitations, 44khz sample rate and 16 bit word length is not enough to satisfactorily resolve the complexity, delicacy and emotion alive in the notes." HOME ENTERTAINMENT

Wall Street Journal

"When the CD was introduced, it was called "perfect sound forever." The problem was that CDs sounded thin, harsh and unpleasant. Records are a pretty good way to store info. Sound is inherently analog; converting sound to record grooves doesn't involve the information loss as their conversion to digital. With the turntable, there's hardly any background noise; sound is 3-dimensional, detailed and has a liveness that CDs or iPods cannot begin to match."

"MP3 is a digital compression technology that throws away lots of information to reduce file size. It's quantity over quality. Listening to an iPod through a high-end audio system is painful and a big step backward from CDs."

"For the past several years, far more records were sold in the U.S. than CDs. For years, far more turntables have been sold than CD players. Many companies that had made many CD and DVD players have dropped these models and now have many turntables. Records are the favorite physical music format.

Music lovers always valued LP's warm, organic sound, but it may be the rise of digital music that contributed most to the rise in vinyl sales. Services such as Spotify commoditized music and took away the pleasure of owning a physical album. To those who prefer to own a tangible product, an LP adds more value than a CD. CD sales have been crushed. As many labels ship LPs with download codes, buyers get the best of both worlds when they buy an LP – they get the convenience of an MP3 download and the physical and acoustic pleasures of an LP." PRO AV TODAY

2] VINTAGE RECORDINGS Most music on LPs is not available on CD. Whether you enjoy rock, jazz, classical or country, there's lots on LP that you can't find on CD. There's many new LPs made. Record printing plants are working 24 hours to meet demand.

3] NEW MUSIC CHOICES. DJs, audiophiles and collectors love vinyl. CD sales have dropped steadily. New record sales keep increasing. "More and more labels are pressing vinyl and not just reissuing old stuff. Young bands are releasing LPs." HOME ENTERTAINMENT

4] BONUS FEATURES. LP's larger size gives you better cover art, liner notes and sometimes posters and lyrics. There are books devoted to LP album art and posters. Reading the liner notes can be a real treat.

GROOVIN' ON VINYL. Turntables are cool again. A new generation loves the sweet sound of vinyl. Turntable sales keep increasing. CD sales keep dropping. Record's sound quality is superior to a digital file. Analog sounds much warmer and more natural than digital.

Madonna, U2, Led Zeppelin, Wilco, Amy Winehouse and others release vinyl albums. If you want a record collection that lasts a lifetime, you need a real turntable with a good needle that won't damage the record. It will bring so much more from the grooves that it will leave your jaw on the ground."

CHOOSING a TURNTABLE

We have over 45 years of turntable experience. The turntables we stock are excellent values, durable and earn praise from many reviewers. As turntables increase in price, their many parts improve, including the motor, power supply, platter, base, tone-arm and cartridge. Each part makes a definite difference. Just putting a better cartridge on a lesser turntable won't provide the sound of a better turntable. The turntables we stock have all withstood the test of time.

DENON, GRADO, MARANTZ, ORTOFON, over 65 years.

REGA , over 45 years.

Loading LPs to CDs, MP3s & iPods

Our Pro-Ject phono box USB for $159 is a quality, European-made, Moving Magnet/Moving Coil phono preamp with a built-in, analog to digital converter with a USB output. This lets you connect the turntable directly to your computer and easily transfer your LPs onto your computer hard drive or to record on to a CD.

Compared to othet 'tables at its price, Pro-Ject T1 has a:

1] Better cartridge.

2] Better, more precise tonearm.

3] One piece, solid mdf wood base [plinth], not plastic.

4] Three year parts/labor warranty

5] Handmade in Europe.

With a Pro-Ject turntable, an LP will sound better than the same recording on CD. Your records will last longer. The turntable will last longer.

Cleaning Records

"A good record cleaner is a vital tool for any good collection. ABSOLUTE SOUND

We stock affordable alternatives.

1] The $15 Brush-it is a carbon fiber & velvet brush, which removes dust while reducing any static charges.

2] The $80 Spin-Clean totally submerges your records in a cleaning bath. Next to the VPI record cleaning machines, the Spin-Clean is the best way to clean records.

Spin Clean Record Cleaning System

Cartridge Reviews

Grado All Made In N.Y.

BLACK , $99, "Admirable detail and treble with good bass and ambience." HI-FI CHOICE RECOMMENDED

GREEN , $125, "Thoroughly enjoyable for nearly all kinds of music." BEST BUY, HI-FI CHOICE

"Warm, pleasant balance, sweet treble; Lively overall presentation." ABSOLUTE SOUND

"Produces rich, open and expansive music. At its price it simply can't be beaten!" SENSIBLE SOUND

GOLD , $260, "Rich, open & expansive." BEST BUY, HI-FI CHOICE RECOMMENDED "Warm, pleasant lively; dynamically expressive midrange; engaging openness. Cost-conscious buyers will appreciate the user-replaceable stylus mechanism." ABSOLUTE SOUND EDITOR'S CHOICE

PLATINUM 3 , $400, "Nice midrange, lively; cartridge of choice for the most cost restrained." EXCEPTIONAL VALUE, STEREOPHILE RECOMMENDED

"Markedly more refined sound than the Gold. Increased resolution; competes nearly equally with m.c. cartridges 3 times its price. Compared to the Gold, tighter bass, more neutrally voiced and much more authoritative; significantly better tracking. More top-tier performance attributes and delivers greater musical enjoyment per dollar than any other $300 cartridge." ABSOLUTE SOUND

SONATA 3 , $600, "Improved detail, transient speed, more seductive mids & improved hall sound very noticeable."

Stereophile Recommended

"Wonderful; naturally sweet treble, refined tone; very good detail, particularly in the mids." ABSOLUTE SOUND, EDITOR'S CHOICE

REFERENCE 3 , $1500, "Beautiful sounding; enormously musical." ABSOLUTE SOUND, EDITOR'S CHOICE

ORTOFON – Made in Denmark

"Ortofon, founded in 1918, is relatively large for a 21st century company specializing in phono cartridges, employing 65 people. The firm's heart and soul remain rooted in hi-fi. Even the least expensive cartridge is assembled from many tiny parts requiring much handwork. Making moving coil cartridges includes hand-winding coils over tiny armatures under microscopes by highly skilled workers. My visit to Ortofon was impressive. Having the infrastructure for machining and crafting rubber parts for cartridge suspensions puts them in an enviable position in both quality and pricing. Ortofon seems to have perfected its MC technology. I bought one as a reference." STEREOPHILE

2M RED , $99, THE GREATEST BARGAIN in a HIGH END CARTRIDGE ; ABSOLUTE SOUND

PRODUCT of YEAR, ABSOLUTE SOUND "Screaming deal – entry level cartridge at its finest" ABSOLUTE SOUND

"One sophisticated cartidge for the money" ABSOLUTE SOUND

2M BLACK , $755, PRODUCT of YEAR, ABSOLUTE SOUND "Superb performer and value. Ortofon is in its own world, plumbing the complexities of orchestral depth and dimension with more resolved character and better soundstage precision and dimension. Its Shibata stylus has a wider groove contact area and better stability, which extends frequency response and reduces record wear." ABSOLUTE SOUND EDITOR'S CHOICE

" Transparent, unravels the complexities of orchestral music; velvety finess & harmonic finish." ABSOLUTE SOUND

"Lighter, faster, more resolved than Shure V15V. More transparent." ABSOLUTE SOUND

"Ridicuously good; bright open sound with surprising heft and slam." In same class as $3000 models. STEREOPHILE RECOMMENDED

BLUE POINT SPECIAL EVOIII , $549, EXCEPTIONAL VALUE, "Tight clarity, rhythmic certainty, excellent tracking," STEREOPHILE RECOMMENDED "One of the best entry level, high output, moving cartridges." ABSOLUTE SOUND EDITOR'S CHOICE

BEST BUY "High frequency refinement & nimble, artculate & revealing sound." HI-FI CHOICE

Phono Preamp Reviews

We have seven new amps from $399 in stock with built-in phono preamps. Most competitor's models, including most NAD, Sony, etc. don't include a phono preamp.

LEHMAN / ORTOFON AUDIO BLACK CUBE STATEMENT phono preamp, $449 "Generous soundstage, awesome clarity, beautiful detail; fast attack; listening an absolute thrill and joy. Sound was gripping, dramatic and emotionally compelling; versatile, powerful and a bargain." STEREOPHILE

FEATURES made in Germany; moving magnet and moving coil; gold plated RCA jacks;

DIP SWITCHES vary gain options [31, 41, 51, 61db] and impedance [100, 1k, 47k ohms] ORTOFON

Turntable Reviews

PRO-JECT – ALL MADE IN EUROPE and INCLUDE TONEARM and CARTRIDGE

DEBUT CARBON EVO , "Most significant upgrade to Pro-Ject's latest Debut is in its name, which refers to the lighter, more rigid, single-piece 8.6" carbon-fiber arm. It gets the basics so right." ABSOLUTE SOUND

PRO-JECT RPM1 has many upgrades over the Carbon. The RM1.3 features a 1.25" thick resonance-optimized wood platter, a three-point wood plinth and isolated motor assembly, optimized for low noise and speed stability. Three nylon cone feet reduce noise and vibration. RCA cables can detach, permitting easy upgrades. [Many 'tables over $1000 don't have detachable cables.] It looks like a modern sculpture, enhanced by your choice of a high gloss red or black finish.

REGA MADE in ENGLAND & include TONEARM

PLANAR 3, PRODUCT of the YEAR & BEST BUY, "BEST TURNTABLE VALUE" WHAT HIFI

"Enthusiastically recommended" TONE AUDIO

P6 , "P6 comes standard with $400 TT PSU power supply, a must for top performance. Note the large improvements in dynamic nuance, explosiveness, tonal and textural detail, depth of stage and sheer musicality." ABSOLUTE SOUND EDITOR'S CHOICE

P8 , cartridge optional. ABSOLUTE SOUND EDITOR'S CHOICE

In same class as $6500 turntables. "Setup quick and simple; powerful, dynamic, coherent sound with solid, well-defined images; clean, articulated bass, exceptional detail resolution and outstanding dynamics. The most exciting and truly revolutionary turntable in quite some time." STEREOPHILE

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Pro-Ject Debut Carbon

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$499 with USB

Pro-Ject Essential

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New Brands

Prima Luna,

Spin Washer,

Vibrapods,

Vincent and VPI.

We have a good selection of used turntables. We also have new cartridges, stylus and needles.

Call us with the brand and/or model number to check if we have a replacement part for your cartridge

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FREE Gold Sound Seminar

GETTING your music

from Vinyl – LPs – Albums or Tape TO your Computer, THEN Record TO CDs or DVDs

We don't have a date set just yet. Please call or email, if your interested in attending.

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Gold sound – Sumiko Pro-Ject page –

4285 South Broadwa y

Englewood, Colorado 80110

303-789-5310

Hours: Tuesday thru Friday: 11AM to 6PM – Saturday: 11AM to 5PM

( 7 Blocks South of Hampden; 6 Blocks North of Belleview )

( Broadway & Quincy )

Serving the Denver area for over 35 years…

Click here for detailed area map

High Quality Audio and Video Equipment

Audiophile ~ Home Theater

Pro Sound Equipment ~ Speakers Parts Kits

Used LP Albums and CDs

New and Used Equipment

Gold Sound Understands Value…

All equipment is selected upon a quality to value ratio weighted towards exceptional quality and a superb value.

We're proud of what we sell… Unlike big box stores, we offer personal service and no hassle sales.

Gold Sound's Sumiko Pro-Ject Page

Sumiko Pro-Ject RM 1.3

We're open Tue-Friday, 11-6, Saturday 11-5. Recently customers bought home turntables, receivers, amps, tape decks, subs, speakers, etc. The only parts we sell are new home stereo cables, new Grado headphones, new Ortofon & Grado phono cartridges. We only work on units bought here: new speakers, new turntables & vintage audio. Call us at 303 789-5310. Thanks for your support for over 49 years.

Pro-Ject

Every PRO-JECT model is MADE IN EUROPE & INCLUDES a TONEARM, damped cueing and DIAMOND NEEDLE CARTRIDGE.

Pro-Ject is our most affordable European-made turntable.

We stock T1, DEBUT CARBON EVO and DEBUT PRO turntables. T1 includes an ORTOFON OM5 cartridge and a glass platter. We stock T1 and DEBUT CARBON EVO in walnut and black finishes. DEBUT CARBON EVO is the most popular European-made turntable in Europe & the U.S. It includes a carbon fiber tonearm, $150 Sumiko cartridge, three speeds [33/45/78 rpm], a much thicker and heavier base and is $599. DEBUT PRO has a better carbon tonearm, platter and base than the CARBON EVO. DEBUT PRO recently won an award for BEST VALUE TURNTABLE.

The RM1.3 for $599 is the next model above the Carbon. RM1.3 features a $100 Sumiko Oyster cartridge, 1.25" thick resonance-optimized wood platter, three-point wood plinth, plus an isolated motor assembly, optimized for low noise and speed stability. Three nylon cone feet reduce noise and vibration. The RCA cables can detach, permitting easy upgrades. Many $1000+ turntables don't have detachable cables. It looks like a modern sculpture and comes in your choice of a high gloss red, black or white finish.

Turntable Reviews

DEBUT CARBON , $599. "The most significant upgrade is its lighter, more rigid, single-piece 8.6" carbon-fiber arm tube that replaces the Debut III's aluminum tube. It gets the basics so right that it's hard to criticize." ABSOLUTE SOUND

BEST BUDGET TURNTABLE in its PRICE CLASS, WHAT HI-FI ,

Absolute Sound Editor'S Choice

Best Buy What Hi-Fi