New phono pre-amp for Benz MC Gold

[JohnMichael]

I would be very curious to hear what modified Jolida would sound like.
Do you prefer to go SS or tubes?
Looks like Musical Fidelity has a brand new phono-pre, and you know they make great products. I suspect they learned a thing or two from building kW Phono.

JRA

Sadly I am too neurotic for tubes. I have been looking at the Musical Fidelity and the Simaudio LP3 which are both about $500 and the Musical Surroundings Phonomena for $600. I also have been thinking about the Sutherland Ph3D with it's battery power. The MF and the Simaudio do not have the adjustments of the latter two.

[Chas Underhay]

Hi JohnMichael

Try auditioning a Trichord Dino. I have a Trichord Delphini MkII with the separate NC power supply and it's excellent, I'm totally happy with it. I gather that the Dino is very close and from memory is about £300 ($600) with a starter power supply and £500 ($1000) with the full power supply. It always seems to do well in the magazine reviews.

It's also easily user adjustable for gain and loading.

Cheers

Chas

[E-Stat]

Sadly I am too neurotic for tubes.

And an all tube high gain stage would be costly indeed. Years ago, I replaced an 80's vintage Audio Research SP-6 with a used SP-9 MKIII for its higher gain to adequately drive a MC cartridge. It is a hybrid design, with most of the gain coming from FETs using a pair of 6922 tubes as followers.

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