I'm no expert in these things but just wanted to express my thanks to the initiator of this thread, lp2cd. As a result I went out and bought one of these phono stages from Superfi (excellent service) and the performance is awesome.
When I had a bit of cash a few years ago I bought an Arcam FM system with B&W surround floorstanders and as you would expect the digital performance was awesome and I thought of vinyl as history.
A few years later I had a rethink and maybe vinyl has it's place, so I bought a Rega P9 with a Denon MC cartridge and thought great here we go.
Then I discovered the Arcam didn't have a phono stage and I'd blown my budget. I bought a Cambridge 640P and hoped that this might be my salvation, but it was hopeless. My ipod on a solo speaker could sound as good.
So I gave up for a while and then looked around thinking valve amp but read this review and thought maybe with a system that's loaded for digital this might work and ...it does. I've had it for only a few days so not even sure I've got it set up properly and definitely not broken in but it is awesome.
The purity of sound is sensational and that's just using it off the standard connectors. The silence that the originator refers to is totally the case and across all genres I've tried it's a treat, fantastic musicality.
By far the best musical investment I've made in a long, long time.
Apologies for the non-technical review but I hope this will help encourage more people to at least check this out and a big thank you to lp2cd.
When I had a bit of cash a few years ago I bought an Arcam FM system with B&W surround floorstanders and as you would expect the digital performance was awesome and I thought of vinyl as history.
A few years later I had a rethink and maybe vinyl has it's place, so I bought a Rega P9 with a Denon MC cartridge and thought great here we go.
Then I discovered the Arcam didn't have a phono stage and I'd blown my budget. I bought a Cambridge 640P and hoped that this might be my salvation, but it was hopeless. My ipod on a solo speaker could sound as good.
So I gave up for a while and then looked around thinking valve amp but read this review and thought maybe with a system that's loaded for digital this might work and ...it does. I've had it for only a few days so not even sure I've got it set up properly and definitely not broken in but it is awesome.
The purity of sound is sensational and that's just using it off the standard connectors. The silence that the originator refers to is totally the case and across all genres I've tried it's a treat, fantastic musicality.
By far the best musical investment I've made in a long, long time.
Apologies for the non-technical review but I hope this will help encourage more people to at least check this out and a big thank you to lp2cd.