Any Hagerman Trumpet and Acoustech PHD owners?

I have the Hagerman trumpet and highly recommend it. From a sonics standpoint it is superb with exceptional dynamics. extended highs, and a wide open soundstage. The only real downside that one may have is that it is rather tall and will not fit inside most audio racks. I have mine placed on the top shelf of one of my racks. If you are using a lower output MC cartridge you will need a seperate step-up. I am using the Bent Audio S&B step-up but I am sure the Hagerman S&B is very good as well. The cosmetics on this unit is rather basic but the sound quality IMO is much higher than you would expect for this price level.

I am using the copper S&B step-up. The transformers are the same but their are a few differences. The Bent stepup is housed in seperate enclosures for left and right channels. The feature I like with the Bent audio stepup is that he can provide a resistor pack which you can easily change resistors on the fly via binding posts on the outside of the enclosure. The Hagerman stepup is ordered with the load that you prefer soldered in place. My understanding is that the Hagerman version does have some type of proprietary load impedance with the trumpet but am not sure if this effects the sound much. You would be able to get more info on this from Jim Hagerman. As far as tube rolling, I have yet to experiment with this as I have had this for only several months. I have heard that improvements can be made with tube rolling this unit but to be honest its hard to imagine how much better it could sound. I am sure I will get around to experimenting with tubes at some point.