Attractive chassis with a brushed aluminum face plate. Excellent specs and exceptional sound, discrete circuitry (including QHW developed AE2270 op-amp, low tolerance RIAA all powered by a 36 V unusually robust DC outboard power supply terminated with an IEC jack so you can use your choice of A.C. You can have both connected and flip a switch to select one or the other. Hand assembled and soldered in Spain and sold factory-direct (as of today the price is $713.03), “The Vinyl” features two independently adjustable inputs, one MM and one MC. Unlike Parasound’s more costly phono preamps, John Curl didn’t design the ZPhono but he’d no doubt approve of what it offers for so little money. Instead of a “wall wart” power supply the ZPhono XRM’s linear high capacity/low noise power supply is built into a nicely manufactured chassis. Because the MM and MC circuits are separate, you can simultaneously connect a MM and MC cartridge. Parasound delivers a versatile MM/MC phono preamp that includes a very useful mono switch, gold-plated balanced XLR output (and single ended too), an 18dB/octave rumble filter and for MC, continuously variable 50ohm to 1050 ohm resistive loading. The price has dropped $100 to $499 since I reviewed the ZPhono XRM a few years ago. There’s a new less costly iFi ZEN Air ($99) not yet reviewed. High build quality, attractive push button-controlled feature set including gain from 36dB to 72dB, claimed -151dBv noise floor (it’s very quiet), switchable subsonic filter, high quality parts and balanced (4mm jack) output all for $199.00. The far better sounding Mani 2 costs $149.
Resistive loading choices are 47Kohms, 200ohms, 47ohms and 38ohms. Four settings offer gain of 35dB, 45dB, 50dB and 60dB. The passive RIAA filter uses 2% film caps and 0.1% thin-film resistors. Schiit claims for the Mani 2 a much lower noise floor (10-15dB lower) and therefore blacker backgrounds and wider dynamic range. servo-coupled using a TI OPA 1612 op-amp (unless you choose the passive low frequency filter). The original $129 Mani lacked transparency probably in great part due to its use of output coupling capacitors.
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Free shipping and 30 day return policy if you don’t like it. Assembled by hand in U-Turn’s Woburn, MA factory. 36dB), WIMA film caps, precision resistors, an active subsonic filter (the original Pluto’s was passive) and a revised power supply and grounding scheme that the company says produces less crosstalk, lower distortion and higher signal-to-noise ratio-all housed in an attractive aluminum enclosure with a brushed aluminum fascia. The Pluto 2, launched May, 2020 features a higher gain circuit (dual stage producing 40dB vs. The Moving Magnet only $89 original U-Turn Pluto won a blind shoot-out by a 2:1 margin against the original Schiit Mani. I’m proud of them and of the site I created and ran for more than a decade. Meanwhile, as in “Miracle on 34th Street”, where Macy’s Santa sent people to Gimbel’s, please visit my “former endeavor” and scroll through the phono preamp reviews. Of course, there are many others worth noting but we want to avoid a laundry list here. Equally important: they are from stable companies that will exist when in the future you might need customer support. Priced from $99 to $1500, these 5 phono preamplifiers offer fine build quality and sound to match. 5 Inexpensive Phono Preamplifiers We Like Priced From $99 to $1500
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