Are You Happy With Your Phono Preamp?

N change yes I am.

Kennyc, how do you like the vdH? It was on my short list, along with Pass XP27, Rowland Conductor, and DSA Phono III. 

I do apologise for my earlier post, I was commenting on a Pre Amp'.

It looks like the heat wave is having an effect on myself.   

I am very happy with my Primare R35. It is connected to my Linn LP12 and Lyngdorf TDAI 3400 with analog board.

Zesto Andros Deluxe

Nicely priced about $8500. Have almost all the features of their $15K model but in one box and can only take two instead of 4 inputs.

Gorgeous tube sound without tube downsides. Also beautiful to look at.

I agree with king herald, the Pass XP17 is a superb phono stage, dead quiet, dynamic, you would be happy with it.

Agree with mglik about the Zesto phono stages. I replaced my Deluxe with the Reference and love both phono stages.

We are a Zesto dealer. We took on the line based on the sound of the original Deluxe which has been improved.

While researching phono stages looking for the best price/performance, on another’s  post, “PS Audio Stellar Phono (buy audio magic ultimate beeswax shd fuse $225- big improvements)”

A lot of buzz about those fuses. 😎

The old ARC PH2 i was using for a couple of decades was pretty good.
I only really upgraded as I wanted loading options and more gain to run a MC.

Dear @chilli42  : as  ​​​​​​@wolfie62  posted:

" Nothing wrong with the PS Audio Stellar phono pre. "

I think that after so many posts only the one for him really makes sense.

Almost all the other gentlemans rthat gave you their advises are in realuity tube lovers and even that they think they are in reality rthey are not true MUSIC lovers but hardware lovers and along that I think that almost all of them not even listen once in their life your really good PS phono stage that's way superior to any of those tube units they " die for ".

No matters what you need to stay away of tubes if you want to be nearer and truer to the recording, your Stellar is a very good system step/link about. You can try to follow in that direction, you can't go wrong. Audio/MUSIC knowledge levels is way more important that those tube electronics that always but today are all way wrong.

I'm not against any of those tube gentlemans owners and I respect all of them, mine is only an opinion just like their opinions.

Regards and enjoy the MUSIC NOT DISTORTIONS,

R.

I had a ARC PH3SE, nice but gain is high for MM and low for LOMC.  I got a Zesto Andros 1.2, loved it.  Loved it so much I got an Andros Deluxe II.  Dead quiet, great sound and not tubey sounding.  I also have a Zesto Bia 120 power amp so I do like their build and sound.

Gold Note PH10 and PSU10. Very happy.

+1 @z32kerber 

I’m very happy with my Luxman EQ-500 with NOS tubes.

I am very happy with my EAR 834p and Cinemag 1254 based SUT.  With the Dynavector 20x2L it works mahhvelessly.