Definatly incredible phono, the line is as good as it gets for about 5 times the price as well, but beware Good cryo tubes needed for complete dead silent background, and Vladmir sometimes ships very cheap 12AU7's(Ecc82?) in the unit and these have Nowhere near enough gain for phono to be played at "live" levels, So make sure you use very good 12AT7's(ecc81?) in the unit they have 3 TIMES the amount of gain, we found this out when I tested 12AU7's and found that you would have to listen at 3/4 gain on the volume, that would be 3 o'clock on the dial, Now with 12AT7's you can listen with very powerfull and dynamic levels between 1/4 to 1/2 volume, 9 O'clock & 12 O'Clock, and 12AT7's are whats suppose to be in the circuit as that is printed right on the board, but 12AU7's can be substituted in.. This unit replaced a 5500.00 Tube preamp with phono and remote, And I never looked back, its that good if you have the right tubes and equipment mix...Also, the Silver wire, and Auricaps(pretty good capacitors not cheapies) came in my new updated version, very Silent Tube preamp and could be Overly warm if you have a certain component synergy in your system, and of course tubes will dictate this as well. Beyond that for the price nothing will sit on your shelf longer, cause you would probably skip replacing it with something in the 6-10,000.00 range because the sound is not that much better.
