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Thanks, Gregm.

My primary concern with all those IC-based phonostages is that they are thin like hell. The audio freaks like it, I do not. I never heard the DACT CT-100 and can not speculate. I have seen this one:

http://www.goodsoundclub.com/PDF/DACT_Phono.pdf

quite unpleasant observation as I can see. Although I would not let the article to stay in a way of my own perception but frankly speaking what Charles have found id very close to what I would expect. Also, the DACT reply was quite a moronic as well. Still, I do not know…..

Thanks for pointing out the ASR’s little IC phonostage. I have a strong dislike of ASR: their amps are horrible – the real nightmare of any amplification. This battery powered phonostage might be different – I do not know. I spoke with a local guy who sells it and he of course had passed very positive feedback. He is not far and I might hear it in person. There is something strange with that ASR phono: you say that it is 80dB gain maximum, the manual from two other people says 70dB and 76db. OK, you might not know but the manual from the damn company should be kind of more agreeable. The list praise for this unit is also not around ~800-900 but $7.000. Although the street price is much lower but still: how much a damn IC-based phonostage should cost? The entire TV of DVD played nowadays cost $100 and the IC-based phonostage has 1% complexity of that TV and built with the same technologies and parts. $7K is not what I am wiling to spend for the “Second-type” phonostage, not to mention that in that ASR phonocorrector is the most expansive part in battery that cost $19.88 in “You do it electronics”. Of course my fanatical beaching has nothing to do with the way in which that ASR’s phono might sound (I still do not have a lot of expectations)  but for $7K I am very strongly negatively predisposed.

Rgs,
Romy the Cat

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