"Nick Gorham" wrote


I was about to start with "despised" being a bit strong, but, no, you are
right, I think EAR phono stages are crap. That ok ?

When I mesured yours, it had a unneeded rumble filter, well that, or the
50hz EQ was wrong, and the response above 10k, fell like a stone.

IMHO, save your money, buy or build the WAD phono.


Well, I did make an arrangement for a better one, but it kinda pooped
out.... ;-)



With all that, having not heard the stage in question, I have no opinion
on that, and how it compairs. There does seem to be two schools to valve
phono stage design, the "sod the RIAA, but it sounds nice to me" school,
or the (one I fit into), "get the RIAA as close as you can, design so
valve changes dont effect this, or can be dialed out, and then look at the
best sound" (valve op points, CCS, component choice, MC loading values,
power supply quality, RF rejection, all that sort of stuff).


Yes, I seem to be surrounded by the 'falling response' brigade who argue
musicality over 'flatness'....


so I put it onto the 2A3 SET to try summat 'completely different'....


Out of interest, what the input impediances of the amps in question ? That
could well be making a difference. And maybe input capacitance, depending
on the circuit of the phono stage.


OK, no real idea (all a bit over my head atm) but I can quote you

Dynavox - Input Impedance: 20 kOhm

Kit88 -