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Hi Michael,
Glad you are having fun with your turntable. I hope you can get a phono stage sorted. As for valve ones, the EAR 834 is one too look at. Can be picked up cheap. Not the last word in refinement but can be enjoyable to listen to. Also can be tweaked for better performance.
If you fancy a go with the soldering iron, the WAD Phono stage is a interesting phono stage that will beat the EAR. This comes with a separate power supply.
One to snap up if you can find one is an Audio Innovations P2 valve phono stage. This gives a very step up in resolution from the EAR & very good performance in the bass & treble, giving good life & dynamics to the music. Not very common.
As look at Croft pre amps which have good phono stages so you can use into you current preamp.
Also Audio Note do some stand alone valve phone stages which can be very good.
As always Have fun.
Hi Data,
The way forward is to spend your money on a good source. This is not always big bucks. It's all down to quality. With turntables, the cost of materials, design, construction & size of market means that new high end turntables are not cheap. But you can get a good turntable for reasonable money, it's just that you can get a better one for more money.
What a turntable has to do on the face of it does not seem complex. It has to measure the groove. The better it does this the better the sound quality. They are precision mechanical device. They are precision mechanical measuring intruments. The problems start when you sit down & design & build one. There are many ways and means of doing this hence the wide range of turntables over the years.
BTW the Audio Innovations Series 200 has quite a good phono stage. I've got one of these somewhere.
SCIDB
Glad you are having fun with your turntable. I hope you can get a phono stage sorted. As for valve ones, the EAR 834 is one too look at. Can be picked up cheap. Not the last word in refinement but can be enjoyable to listen to. Also can be tweaked for better performance.
If you fancy a go with the soldering iron, the WAD Phono stage is a interesting phono stage that will beat the EAR. This comes with a separate power supply.
One to snap up if you can find one is an Audio Innovations P2 valve phono stage. This gives a very step up in resolution from the EAR & very good performance in the bass & treble, giving good life & dynamics to the music. Not very common.
As look at Croft pre amps which have good phono stages so you can use into you current preamp.
Also Audio Note do some stand alone valve phone stages which can be very good.
As always Have fun.
Hi Data,
I have to say bottle, I currently subscribe to the cartridge and fono stage philosophy. I am always sceptical with the ' spend all your money on the source' attitude. I do think it is more complex than that, but do give a bit of leeway with vinyl as they are precision mechanical devices (NOT!! measuring devices!)
The way forward is to spend your money on a good source. This is not always big bucks. It's all down to quality. With turntables, the cost of materials, design, construction & size of market means that new high end turntables are not cheap. But you can get a good turntable for reasonable money, it's just that you can get a better one for more money.
What a turntable has to do on the face of it does not seem complex. It has to measure the groove. The better it does this the better the sound quality. They are precision mechanical device. They are precision mechanical measuring intruments. The problems start when you sit down & design & build one. There are many ways and means of doing this hence the wide range of turntables over the years.
BTW the Audio Innovations Series 200 has quite a good phono stage. I've got one of these somewhere.
SCIDB