12-13-2010 Post does not mapped to Knowledge Tree Romy the Cat Boston, MA Posts 10,155 Joined on 05-28-2004 Post #: 1 Post ID: 15186 Reply to: 15186 John Curl’s new phonostage. fiogf49gjkf0d The new sites announce that Parasound introduced John Curl designed Halo JC 3 Phono Preamplifier. It is passive EQ, three-position input impedance switch, DC coupled amp stages with FET followers. It reportedly has average noise ratio and unknown gain. The idiots who write about it do mention price and impales the it sounds like Curl's Vendetta but they forget to mention the gain of the thing. It is hard to predict what it might be. Hopefully it will be transformer-less, high gain SS phonostage. The Curl cooperation with Parasound is not so glorious. The widely publicized and widely beloved by majority of audio idiots Curl/Parasound Holo power amplifier was a disaster.  The audio idiots jumped out of windows to get them and the audio revisers were trembling in public multiple orgasms when they describe the sound of Parasound Holo  JC1 and JC2 power amplifiers. The really was that JC1 and JC2 were such a horror that Feds might very well use the Parasound Sound to make prisoners to suffer in Abu Ghraib… So it is very little possible to predict about Curl new phonostage. The Cat "I wish I could score everything for horns." - Richard Wagner. "Our writing equipment takes part in the forming of our thoughts." - Friedrich Nietzsche

12-19-2010 Post does not mapped to Knowledge Tree AOK_Farmer Marlboro NY USA Posts 64 Joined on 07-08-2004 Post #: 2 Post ID: 15236 Reply to: 15186 Specs of the Halo fiogf49gjkf0d          Phono Input Impedance         MM setting: 47k ohm         MC setting: 47k ohm or 100 ohm         Output Impedance         Unbalanced: < 100 ohm         Balanced: < 100 ohm per leg         Input Sensitivity at 1 kHz         MM: 4mV in for 1.0V output         MC: 0.4mV for 1.0V output         Total Gain         MM: 47 dB         MC: 68 dB Apparently no transforemers or capacitors in the signal path but uses the servos... Steve