In Reply to: No, I guess that the concept of choke loading plates on a phono stage posted by Chip647 on November 20, 2014 at 15:35:26:
"Why on earth would someone want to do this?"
For the same reasons you would want to use a plate choke on any other gain stage: to get full gain and low distortion from the tube without the heat and high B+ from resistive loading or possible solid state sound effects from a CCS, and most importantly for the good sound!
I built a plate choke loaded phono stage earlier this year and can say that, in my opinion, it sounds very good. From a measurement perspective with my AP it has a tight RIAA EQ tracking and low distortion.
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- RE: No, I guess that the concept of choke loading plates on a phono stage - Donald North 23:38:26 11/21/14 (0)