Recommendations for a SS RIAA phono preamp?
#18
I eventually settled on the Hagerman Bugle 2 kit. Great circuit, reasonable price considering the chap's got to make a profit.
This arrived this afternoon:
Building up stages:
Sounds superb! Betters my EAR 834 and by quite a margin which is pretty surprising; that's not what I expected so pretty astounded at the performance per £.
Switched mode wallwart supply is regulated and uses inductors in the power smoothing stage on the PCB to virtually eradicate HF noise in the supply. All in all, a very worthwhile DIY kit.
This arrived this afternoon:
Building up stages:
Sounds superb! Betters my EAR 834 and by quite a margin which is pretty surprising; that's not what I expected so pretty astounded at the performance per £.
Switched mode wallwart supply is regulated and uses inductors in the power smoothing stage on the PCB to virtually eradicate HF noise in the supply. All in all, a very worthwhile DIY kit.
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#19
Good effort !
I started off with the EAR 834, years ago .
I started off with the EAR 834, years ago .
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#21
Nice kit and nice build!
The DiyAudio Blowtorch pre thread has a lot of the audio design greats who are alive today contributing - its noisy as hell and subject to diversions BUT it has the state of the art designers discussing the state of the art and one of their conclusions is that the best of modern ic audio design is only just exceeded by the best discrete (ss or vacuum) audio design - and that measurement doesn't show where the difference is...
The Bugle 2 is not far off this state of the art so it is no surprise that it exceeds the performance of what, now-a-days is a dated implementation - hell as Mark says even we have gone passed its performance with our designs!
Its great that you have found out how good the Bugle 2 is and reported on it here - thankyou!
James
The DiyAudio Blowtorch pre thread has a lot of the audio design greats who are alive today contributing - its noisy as hell and subject to diversions BUT it has the state of the art designers discussing the state of the art and one of their conclusions is that the best of modern ic audio design is only just exceeded by the best discrete (ss or vacuum) audio design - and that measurement doesn't show where the difference is...
The Bugle 2 is not far off this state of the art so it is no surprise that it exceeds the performance of what, now-a-days is a dated implementation - hell as Mark says even we have gone passed its performance with our designs!
Its great that you have found out how good the Bugle 2 is and reported on it here - thankyou!
James