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A Curious Phono Stage...
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Posted on July 2, 2015 at 10:02:44 | ||
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Location: Herzelia Joined: January 21, 2011 |
About 20 years ago, I bought Rega's Elicit MKI integrated amp. I shamefully admit that I bought the unit based on a stellar review in Hi-Fi Choice, without auditioning it at all...I was an Amateur. This was a dual-mono design with two toroidal transformers (which buzzed quite loudly) and a single 80,000uF(!) electrolitic cap per channel. Of course, it is now well-known that one should use several smaller caps instead. What preplexed me was that the unit sounded aweful with CD's but glorious with Vinyl..it supported both MM and MC cartridges. I used it with an Ortofon MC 1 Super MC cartridge, which in my opinion (and other's) was one of the best value-for-money cartridges ever made. Although the recommended loading for MC cartridges is 100 Ohm, it sounded aweful with this, so I switched to 47KOhm (via a dip switch on the PCB) and the result was much, much better. Bottom line: if you want to buy an expensive phono stage, save yourself a lot of money and try to buy this unit for peanuts...just make sure that this is indeed the MK1, original Elicit, which is very rare indeed. Searched for it on both eBay UK and eBay US and got 0 results... |