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| Preamp for Herron VTPH-2A Not the book, the song. | |
| Preamp for Herron VTPH-2A I'm not interested in vintage stuff. Take your time to find a way to need it, I won't be jumping in front of you :). | |
| Preamp for Herron VTPH-2A I had a look, and it looks interesting. I'm not sure from the listing of the age of the unit. I'd prefer something recent if possible and it looks like that preamp has been around since at least the mid 2000's. | |
| My new to me Herron VTPH-2A - First impressions And yet the OP has started another thread where he is searching for a line stage with gain. Go figure. The OP (that would be me) said 3 posts above yours: Ok, when I said reasonable level, it was satisfying but well below the highest volume I ... | |
| My new to me Herron VTPH-2A - First impressions Ok, when I said reasonable level, it was satisfying but well below the highest volume I will occasionally listen to. I won’t look at passives and will want a standard gain line stage. | |
| Which to upgrade first: Turntable or Phono Preamp The table you have is capable, and the cartridge is quite good.I think you're going to have to spend north of 4k to get a significant improvement over your current table. Below that, and you're just trading one design compromise for another.Go fo... | |
| My new to me Herron VTPH-2A - First impressions Thanks! The Herron line stage was my first thought, but I don’t see them come up on the used market much. New is out of the question until sometime next year, but I doubt I’d have the patience to wait that long.I don’t need anything elaborate. A r... | |
| Looking for a new phono preamp Pods? We don't need no stinkin' pods. :)A friend of mine turned me on to an excellent DIY isolation platform perhaps the best platform I've ever used. He calls it the Boos-Penn platform.Tried the tape thing, green dots and various other similar ... | |
| Looking for a new phono preamp Ok, so the Herron is on it's way. I'll be posting more on this once I get it into my system, and I'm sure I will have some questions for the owners of the VTPH-2A.Thanks to everyone who had suggestions, I looked into almost every one. I have to... | |
| Considering Rogue Audio Sphinx V3 or Outlaw Audio 2160MKII Ok, so this is a litmus test.Use extreme caution. Girlfriends can turn into wives. Do not let this happen if she objects to your system choices. :) | |
| Looking for a new phono preamp No, I won't share. I can't be sure who it was, if it was one of them, and I would not want to disclose this information without evidence. | |
| Looking for a new phono preamp Musts?"I've got a hard upper limit of $2.5k" -partial fail However, $50 over wasn't significant enough to me to let this one get away. , I'll give you half a point on this (generous at that)." I'd prefer solid state, tubes get noisy too fast... | |
| Looking for a new phono preamp Thanks to everyone for the advice. I have looked into most of the suggestions that fell near my budget limit. But...I have located and arranged for the purchase of a preowned Herron VTPH-2A so close to my budget that I could not pass it up. It ... | |
| Looking for a new phono preamp My reason for asking about the Herron is informational. As I said before, I haven't completely ruled out tubes.I don't think I'm overthinking anything. I'm just trying to decide what to buy, and the information I've gotten from this thread so fa... | |
| Looking for a new phono preamp With regard to the Herron, am I reading it right that it is a hybrid design? The MC section is a fet based ss stage? |