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Good Reasonably Priced Seperate Phono Stage??

I have a fairly large selection of albums and devote about 1/2 my listening time to them. I have a couple of mc cartridges (lowest is .5mV) and a few of the earlier Grados. I am no expert in electronics, but it seems that most of the sepereate phono preamps I've seen that go for around $500 or so don't appear to be much better than the phono sections found in reasonably good used full feature preamps, i.e. PS Audio, B&K, Adcom etc. Am I completely off base, or is that generally the case?? If not, what outboard preamps should I be looking at?
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seldenr
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Might I recommend the Camelot Technologies Lancelot Pro. Michael Fremer did a piece on separate Phono Pre-amps a year or so ago and put this one on top of his enjoyment list, except for a couple in the stratosphere price range. I purchased mine from Audio Advisors (I think that is the company name) for about US$890 new. It has adjustable gain (will work great at the .5mV range), separate inputs for MM/MC and separate power supply. I ordered a different set of resistors from the factory and they were terrific to deal with. It is solid state, but the sound? Excellent. I really enjoy mine, so that's really the only comment I give to you. I have never seen one used, but that probably tells you something as well.

Hope this helps,

Rush
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