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In Reply to: Compared VPI Nomad 1 phono stage to MF A 3.2, guess which won? posted by g_greenamyer@yahoo.com on January 8, 2023 at 21:34:52:
As long as you are happy with the sound that is all that matters.
Out of interest, how did you bypass the internal phono stage? Did you cut the tonearm wires and output RCA connections to the PCB and solder extensions to the output jacks?
Once you make the cut, you can't really swap back and forth to do a proper comparison and unless you understand the circuit design, you might not actually be bypassing the internal phono stage properly - for example, if you soldered cables to an extra set of terminals to the input of the Nomad stage, you actually have the internal (presumably 47k and whatever capacitance HW chose) in parallel with the input load of the A3.2. You would therefore absolutely get a different sound with the A3.2 because you have halved the resistive load and added extra capacitance.
Also, don't forget that the Nomad phono pre is tuned specifically for the 2M Red; HW is on record as saying that the response was engineered for warmth which immediately tells us that the Nomad is not engineered to be "neutral" and will therefore sound different with a different cartridge as well as sounding quite different to the A3.2.
Perhaps give us some further detail on what "sounds better" translates to in terms of bass, midrange, detail etc!
Regards Anthony
"Beauty is Truth, Truth Beauty.." Keats
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