Yamaha HX-10000 phonostage, any views?

There are more than one GT 2000 owners at AudioKarma who own the HX phono stage. Go to the GT 2000 Social Group thread. Ask the same question in the thread. Get the information from someone who owns the unit rather than someone who has never laid eyes upon it let alone used, let alone owned it.

Yamaha C1 and C2 (and C2x) are complete preamplifiers. Yamaha hardly released any separate phono stages.

The Exclusive C-7 would have been a bargain buy at 1600 UK pounds.

Lew the names of three who had/have HX-10000 I can recall are 808 State and imfree and Mark B.  Correction Mark B has the rest of the Centennial collection but not the HX. There could be a couple more. You’ll need to join AudioKarma and ask them yourself. I was just pointing out where the information can be found from the horse’s mouth. Not relaying from the horse.

Also 'Dark' is relative to what one is comparing it to/ running it with.