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Graham Slee's $1449 Accession Raises the MM Playback Bar
For almost two decades now British phono preamp manufacturer Graham Slee has been designing, producing and selling specialized high quality phono preamplifiers. His latest is the $1449 Accession, an...
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Liberty Audio’s $1995 B2B-1 Phono Preamp Is Sneakily Stunning
Last year Peter Noerbaek offered me a review sample of the Liberty Audio B2B-1 phono preamp. “I’m happy with my MoFi UltraPhono,” I told MF, “but I’ll try the B2B-1.” Not necessarily thinking it would...
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Pro-Ject's Tube Box S2 MM/MC Phono Preamp Beats the Built In
Pro-Ject Audio Systems is undoubtedly the king of budget friendly, entry-level, high performance analog components. A definite go-to for sub $1000 turntables and bang for your buck phono preamps....
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Parasound Z Phono XRM MM/MC Phono Preamp Offers A lot For $595
Parasound’s $595 ZPhono XRM is a compact, versatile MM/MC phono preamplifier that offers flexibility and features not usually found at this price point including gold-plated balanced XLR outputs (and...
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Easy to Warm Up to ELAC Alchemy’s $1250 PPA-2 Phono Preamp
ELAC Alchemy designer Peter Madnick is well-known to veteran audiophiles as the man behind, among other companies, Audio Alchemy, the “high end” brand that during the 1990s made high performance...
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iFi's iPhono 3 MM/MC Phono Preamplifier Takes A Giant Sonic Leap Forward
The recently introduced iPhono 3 is the third iteration of the remarkably compact, full-featured phono preamp iFi first introduced in 2012 that AnalogPlanet most positively reviewed. The original unit...
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iFi's "Cost Is An Object" Zen Phono MM/MC Phono Preamplifier
iFi’s Zen Phono preamplifier replaces the busy, but super-adjustable dip-switch laden operating system found on the company’s far more costly ($999), feature-rich iPhono 3 for a much simpler one, yet...
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Hagerman Audio’s “Tubey” But Quiet Trumpet MC Phono Preamplifier
Hagerman Audio Lab’s 3rd generation fully balanced from input to output 3 pound Trumpet MC combines a differential JFET input front-end with a more conventional 6 dual-triode vacuum tube (4X 12AX7, 2X...
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QHW Audio’s Surprising “The Vinyl” MM/MC Phono Preamp
What’s “surprising” about QHW Audio’s “The Vinyl” phono preamplifier? More than a few things, starting with its Made In Spain origin. Perhaps I’m just ignorant but other than the highest tech WADAX...
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Does Curl's Jr. Have the Beef?
First released in 2010, Parasound’s JC 3 MM/MC phono preamplifier began as a dual-mono John Curl-designed phono section retro-fit for its JC2 line stage. With vinyl’s popularity on the rise,...
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Arcam’s Surprising rPhono Offers Up to 82dB Gain, Rumble Filter and Variable...
Phono preamps arrive here by the stack. It’s difficult keeping up. To be honest, Arcam’s rPhono arrived before the JC3 Jr. but here, anything with John Curl’s name attached automatically goes to the...
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Lejonklou's Smooth Sounding Gaio Moving Magnet Phono Preamplifier
The Lejonklou Gaio MM phono preamplifier is as simple to use as Swedish designer Fredrik Lejonklou’s name can be difficult to spell or pronounce until you get the hang of it. The Gaio has been...
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Cambridge Audio's "Duo" Phono Preamp/Headphone Amplifier Outperforms Its Low...
Cambridge Audio's Duo is a compact, attractive, lightweight (2.1 Lbs) low priced phono preamplifier that will surprise you with its solid sonic performance as well as its low price. It certainly...
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This $19 Pyle Phono Preamp Is Anything But Crap
An Amazon search for “phono preamp for turntable” (the last two words theirs) will yield approximately 395 results, and above most affordable Pro-Ject, Cambridge Audio, U-Turn, and Music Hall phono...
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Pro-Ject's Versatile DS2 USB MM/MC Phono Pre Sounds Good And Digitizes Too
Pro-Ject’s DS2 USB combines in one chassis a versatile MM/MC phono preamplifier and a high resolution A/D converter capable of digitizing at up to 192/24 bit PCM or 128 DSD (A/K/A “double DSD”). It’s a...
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Graham Slee's $1449 Accession Raises the MM Playback Bar
For almost two decades now British phono preamp manufacturer Graham Slee has been designing, producing and selling specialized high quality phono preamplifiers. His latest is the $1449 Accession, an...
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Liberty Audio’s $1995 B2B-1 Phono Preamp Is Sneakily Stunning
Last year Peter Noerbaek offered me a review sample of the Liberty Audio B2B-1 phono preamp. “I’m happy with my MoFi UltraPhono,” I told MF, “but I’ll try the B2B-1.” Not necessarily thinking it would...
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Pro-Ject's Tube Box S2 MM/MC Phono Preamp Beats the Built In
Pro-Ject Audio Systems is undoubtedly the king of budget friendly, entry-level, high performance analog components. A definite go-to for sub $1000 turntables and bang for your buck phono preamps....
View ArticleClik here to view.
Parasound Z Phono XRM MM/MC Phono Preamp Offers A lot For $595
Parasound’s $595 ZPhono XRM is a compact, versatile MM/MC phono preamplifier that offers flexibility and features not usually found at this price point including gold-plated balanced XLR outputs (and...
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Easy to Warm Up to ELAC Alchemy’s $1250 PPA-2 Phono Preamp
ELAC Alchemy designer Peter Madnick is well-known to veteran audiophiles as the man behind, among other companies, Audio Alchemy, the “high end” brand that during the 1990s made high performance...
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