Do they make a quiet great sounding phono pre amp??


Hi, I have purchased and listened to 3 phono preamps which are: A musical surroundings phonomena, musical surroundings Nova II, and a Manley labs Chinook. The Manely labs Chinook is by far bettter sounding then the first two (double the cost too). But, All three have given me nothing but trouble (noise,noise,noise even terrible clipped signals!), and 2 of them basically failed on me. So before I go DIGITAL, can someone please tell me who makes a phono preamp in the $2,000-$3,000 range (tube or solid state) that I can rely on, and sounds as good or better than the Chinook?? Thanks.


Matt M                                             
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Yeah, I'm not even going to tell you about all the problems I've had to overcome re: EM/RF from nearby high intensity power lines.  Needless to say tubes have been my savior.  Every SS phono has been defeated and I've tried plenty.  Since my preamp is SS it's been doubly challenging. 

If you would have the luxury to chose between the Klyne 7 PX

and Van den Hul's Grail which one would you chose and why?

Nandric, How can you, the consummate logician, pose such a question, since likely no one of us has heard both pieces?

Dear Lew, I had no idea that you have any problem to comment

about components that you have never seen, not to mention  

experienced (grin).

Sorry Lew I forget the ''logical question'' : ''why do you own more TT's

than carts?