Nagra VPS phono preamplifier
Not that many years ago, it seems, every sound crew in Hollywood and around the world recorded production sound using a compact, open-reel analog tape recorder made by Nagra. The first iteration of the...
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Audia Flight Phono preamplifier
I first spotted Audia Flight's exquisite-looking two-box phono preamplifier ($6100) at last year's Hi-End show in Munich, and now that Musical Sounds is importing Audia Flight gear, a review of the...
View ArticleLamm LP2 Deluxe phono preamplifier
In an ideal world, I'd have every phono section I've reviewed in the past 16 years on hand to compare with these three and with all that arrive in the future. But because I have a life, I don't, and I...
View ArticleNagra BPS phono preamplifier
This tiny, lightweight, battery-powered jewel is loosely based on Nagra's VPS phono stage that I reviewed in October 2008 but uses bipolar transistors instead of tubes. The bottom of the company's...
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Boulder Amplifiers 1008 phono preamplifier
Why bother with three phono preamps most of us can't afford? For the same reason the enthusiast automobile magazines cover the newest Ferraris and Lamborghinis: just reading about them is fun. All...
View ArticleSeta Model L phono preamplifier
The minuscule electrical output of an analog signal from a moving-coil cartridge needs to be boosted before it can be converted to digital and equalized in the digital domain.first page: 1
View ArticleSeta Nano phono preamplifier
The minuscule electrical output of an analog signal from a moving-coil cartridge needs to be boosted before it can be converted to digital and equalized in the digital domain.first page: 1
View ArticlePure Vinyl LP recording & editing software
As long as you're spinning an LP for your listening pleasure, and if digitizing it at a resolution of 24-bit/192kHz is transparent to the analog source, why not record and store the LP on your computer...
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Vitus Audio MP-P201 Masterpiece Series phono preamplifier
This massive, two-box beauty from Denmark costs $60,000, and I wish I could tell you it wasn't really better in most ways than the already outlandishly priced and sonically superb Boulder 2008. I...
View ArticleAbbingdon Music Research PH-77 Phono Equaliser
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View ArticleParasound Halo JC 3 phono preamplifier
According to Parasound's founder and CEO, Richard Schram, the Halo JC 3 began as a phono-preamp retrofit for the JC 2 line stage, with separate small circuit boards for each channel. The smaller the...
View ArticlePrecision Transducer Engineering MMMC Phono Preamplifier
The phono preamplifiers reviewed this month are both affordable ($400$1960) and highly accomplished, and the most expensive of them offers versatility that's unprecedented in my experience.first page:...
View ArticleLiberty Audio B2B-1 phono preamplifier
The all-FET, class-A, B2B-1 phono preamplifier ($1749), made in the US by Liberty Audio, is beautifully built inside and out, and comes in a heavy-duty aluminum chassis with a baked-on crackle finish...
View ArticleThe Surprising Audreal LP-2 Phono Preamplifier
Back in 2005 I reviewed what was then the $1500 Jasmine LP-2 MM/MC phono preamplier. It was a two box unit with an umbilical between the power supply and the signal path circuitry. The 70dB gain MC...
View ArticleWhat's a $8500 Cartridge Doing In a Place Like This? The $399 ifi iPhono...
The $399 iFi iPhono phono preamp first spotted at the 2012 Rocky Mountain Audio Festival is the result of a joint venture between ifi micro (ifi-audio.com) and U.K. based Abbington Music Research, also...
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Rega's Aria MM/MC Phono Stage Mirrors the Company's Turntable Sound
Rega’s versatile $1500 Aria phono stage combines high build quality, flexibility and dynamic capabilities more commonly found in more expensive phono preamplifiers.
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Lehmann Audio Black Cube SE II MM/MC Phono Preamp Reviewed
Norbert Lehmann’s Black Cube phono preamplifiers have surprised and at times amazed for their superior sonic performance at near bargain-basement prices. He’s been designing, building and upgrading his...
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PS Audio's NuWave DSD/PCM Phono Converter Reviewed
This is a review of the NuWave Phono Converter's phono preamp section only. A review of the double DSD based A/D converter will follow soon. Multipurpose products like PS Audio’s snazzy new NuWave...
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Phono Preamplifier Voting Results and Files Identified!
On January 2nd analogplanet.com posted five 96/24 bit files, each containing the same minute’s worth of John Williams’ “Liberty Fanfare” performed by the National Symphonic Winds conducted by Lowell...
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Second P.S. Audio NuWave Phono Converter Brings Some Sonic Relief
A second NuWave Phono Converter sample arrived the other day and after swapping the two back and forth a few things became sonically obvious. One is that the second sample was not as hard, bright and...
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