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In the Thread: I need a “second-type” phonostage.
Post Subject: Of course I will give some listening to this thingPosted by Romy the Cat on: 5/24/2007
 Paul S wrote: |
| How funny would it be if it turned out to be any good, or even not bad? |
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Of course I will give some listening to this thing. They claim 65dB gain on 12AX7 and 12AU7 and 84dB noise. I do not know how true it will be. Who knows…. This would be very nice of this thing turn out to sound well and adding to it a 10-15 db transformer would resolve all my needs. I doubt that it will sound OK, though I have very limited experience with Chinese hi-hi. Still, for $170 – how bad should it be? I paid juts for the 3 custom boxes of my 834PT $270….
BTW, the sad irony but the well performing phonostages should not cost a lot. That entire BS that the Industry and their writing idiots invented around phonostages is very bogus. A phonostages is a filter with a buffer – how complex should it be?!!! A RIAA stage for a full function preamp should not be more then $500 and a full-functional phonocorrector should no more then $1000-$1500. There is nothing in 60dB MM phonocorrector complex or expensive to be making them expensive. To build any 2 stage or 2 stage + follower corrector is sub $100 task… What the people do when they trying to push $10K or $20K phonocorrector? They do not necessary sound better.... Anyhow it is depressing irony that playing my reference arm of my quite OK performing analog setup I use a RIAA that coasted me even less then the set of boxed for it.
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