Dear Taters: These phonopreamps are of different design.
The PH5 is an active high gain phono stage and the EAR is a low gain phono stage that uses a pasive step-up transformer for increment the gain. This SUT is an additional stage that do a severe degradation to the signal that comes from the cartridge: it put several veils to the sound.
My advise is that is better if you go for a staright forward handle of the signal like the PH5.
Regards and enjoy the music.
Raul.
The PH5 is an active high gain phono stage and the EAR is a low gain phono stage that uses a pasive step-up transformer for increment the gain. This SUT is an additional stage that do a severe degradation to the signal that comes from the cartridge: it put several veils to the sound.
My advise is that is better if you go for a staright forward handle of the signal like the PH5.
Regards and enjoy the music.
Raul.