Phono Advice

I am looking for valve phonos that have volume controls,I can only thinkof the Icon and one other and I cant remember its name right now,red with one valve coming through the top plate,Belllini or something like that.Any others that are out there?

 

e.a.r 834p

 

Manley Steelhead too.

Just remembered, the k&k phono kit can be fitted with a volume control, and the Art Audio ones.

 

Not a lot is there? Pound for pound the Icon might be a good bet.Wasnt a fan of the EAR ,had one on trial some time ago thought the WAD one was good but no volume.I'll have a look at the K and K

 

K and K looks interesting I have e mailed for some info

 

You could always make up a pot in a box passive pre, that widens your choices a lot. An alps blue pot wired up with a shunt resistor will sound very good and only cost £15 or so plus a box and some sockets/wire.

 

I currently use a passive tvc and would like to keep it but I have a Dynavector P75 and I need to crank the volume up a bit when using the old gramaphone.Was going to go back to an active valve pre with phono but thought this would be a better altrnative.

 

Rolls Bellari VP129. A low-end thingy with one triode at
the input of each channel, followed by an army of cheap opamps.

 

is your problem a lack of gain from phono or uneven levels between inputs? in the first case a pot wouldn't solve the problem. neither in the second, for the same reason - AFAIK the fixed output is always set to the highest and a pot would only act as an attenuator. though with some of the top US preamps you can adjust levels between different inputs but it costs $$$$$$$$$

 

I think the real problem is I miss my valve phonio.I had thought my adding a valve phono with a volume pot I could set the gain on this and when switching between cd and vinyl it would be set at a higher level,from what you are saying this wont work which I suppose is why I asked the question.I think my real problem could be solved by putting back a valve phono and just turning the gain on my pre up a bit.

 

ART AUDIO VINYL ONE (valve based phono stage with volume pot) None better!