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Gram Phono Amps?

I am looking for an inexpensive Phono Stage to use with a modified DUAL 5000 TT and ortphon(?) Cartridge.

I will be using a Pamasonic SA-XR45 which is not known to have a very good ANalog section.I tried some of my Silver Spiral Cables the other night and was impressed with the playback I did get though.

Seeing that Silver Cables are said not to work well with this unit I was impressed even more with my cables and I am hoping that the Phono Amp I do choose is a good match.

I was thinking of purchasing either of the following:
Musical Surroundings MM/MC Phonomena Phono Preamplifier
Gram
Hagerman

What are your thoughts of these units for an inexpensive PA or are there other low cost units I should consider?

TIA
panny

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panny OP
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I like the small footprint or thumbprint you might say!"Hey I coined a new phrase"Thumbprint"instead of "Footprint".No one steal it ,I own it remember that!L

Anyways,I am trying to get away from big boxes and into small componrnts now.There aer tradeoffs to doing that though as performance suffers alittle,but I can live with it.

I will look at the 3 mentioned again and see what I decide on.

If I had my way I would buy the new Linn Klimax setup ,but it's just a bit out of my $$ range at the moment at something like $9K.

The Panny is a great unit and beats a seperate setup I used about a year or so ago that cost 3X the price. I think there is something that can done to upgrade the analog section of the player and testing the Silver cable I market was good the other night so I think there might be synergy issues with those who have said it sucks. Silver is not suppose to work with it and analog sources are suppose to suck air,but that was not my experience the other night.

So I am hoping that the Phono Amp I do choose will be a good match also.

Any other choices that I am missing?

Thanks!
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