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In Reply to: RE: Not enough power from Phono Preamp? posted by BMWDoctor on September 23, 2016 at 16:56:21:
The best sounding inexpensive phono preamp that I've ever heard is the Yaqin MS-22B, but it cost me $200 on eBay. I think, you'd be hard pressed to find a decent sounding phono stage for less than $500 otherwise.I just built a Vacuum Tube Audio kit phono preamp that cost $710 for the kit and it sounds better than my Yaqin MS-22B. However, before buying the Vacuum Tube Audio kit, I bought two different $400 phono preamps that didn't sound as good as my Yaqin MS-22B, which has now been replaced by the newer model MS-23B.
Therefore, I think you're going to have to spend more than $150 on a phono stage. Furthermore, if the only reason you're buying a new phono stage is because you don't like the position of your volume control, you might as well save your money. Two O'clock is the optimum position for any volume control when listening to music. I once owned a Mark Levinson preamp that had different gain settings controlled by internal dip-switches. The manual said to set the dip-switches so the volume control was at one or two o'clock for normal listening.
Best regards,
John Elison
Edits: 09/23/16
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