Lumley

More than 30 years ago, Lumley Audio was founded with the aim of crafting the finest high-end audio equipment the world had to offer. Starting out in the market for amplifiers and loudspeakers, engineer and avid vinyl enthusiast John Jeffries soon turned his expertise towards the design of a new turntable: the Stratosphere MK1. This ground-breaking high-performance turntable received critical acclaim and became a firm favourite of vinyl lovers worldwide, cementing Lumley Audio as a name for quality and excellence. Its design went on to influence the turntables of many competitors, and Jeffries continued to iterate and improve upon its form, with the release of the Stratosphere MK2 in 2007 once again stunning reviewers and hi-fi enthusiasts alike.

Over the next few decades, the decline in popularity of vinyl playback and the emerging digital music market led Jeffries to focus on other endeavours, until in 2020 he once again saw the opportunity to develop a new, state-of-the-art turntable with upgraded materials and performance. The Stratosphere MK3 has been designed with the principles of the original Stratosphere in mind: sublime sonic performance and information retrieval, coupled with a delicacy and clarity that is second to none. It is the quietest turntable available on the market, using new bearing materials to completely eliminate background noise. Redesigned and refined at every level, the MK3 is here to deliver a music experience that has to be heard to be believed.

An upgrade version to old versions has also been made available for original Stratosphere owners, customer reaction here being highly complementary to say the least.