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Yes, I know, Antonio, thanks. There are a lot of IC-based phonostages out there. I have no technical reasons to say that they should be bad but unfortunately they sound kind of “identically bad”. You see no one make them to sound in a “tailored”, defined, objectionable way but people juts put together few op-amp and get “as is” sound. Not to mention that people who know something about op-amps and electronics mostly are clueless about Sound.

It is possible that someone does a well sounding, 80dB IC-base correctors, why not, I just do not know how can I learn about it. A few years ago I bout one of those correctors. I forgot the name; I think it was some kind of “Project”. All high-end stores sold it for near 300 but my local pro music shop sold it almost 8 times cheaper. Initially I was very impressed that actual for those $40 t did RIAA, have no noise and so on but eventually when I moved form a cheap MC to a reasonably good MC I learned that it had unacceptable sound of nothingness. Still, what disgust me in the IC-base RIAA correctors is not the way in witch they might sound but that way in wish they are marketer. Any IC-base RIAA corrector should cost $30, with no expiations. I have called to a local guy who it trying to sell the ASR correctors for $7K and he begging to sing me the songs that ASR do not use the regular ICs but the ICs that they removed form the demilitarized Russian nuclear missiles console and fallen Chinese satellites. I do not think that he passed any message to me beside unavailingly informing me that apparently any single customer who he deal with him was an incredible idiot.

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