What is the Phono stage you have finished with?

Many thanks gentleman,

Looks like I have to wait a while, which is no hard ship... or sell the car!!

I am located in europe, and am now researching the Nagra, TW and the Aesthetix.

Happy listening, and thanks again.
James

I very much like my Aesthetix Rhea (already owned the matching Calypso linestage). The ultimate-couch potato phonostage, with remote control of load and gain, separately for up to three arms/cartridges, along with multiple balanced and single-ended outputs. It even offers remote controlled cartridge demagnetization. Good luck, Dave

Dopouge - do you have any issues with noise - ie tube rush.

I have had the rhea home twice and heard the IO and all units had(to me) noticible tube noise at loud levels. My cartridges are around .35 mv.

I would have luved the IO, however too noisy. the TW acustik phono OTOH also has pure tube gain, but not noisy. Better mids and highs than the IO, the IO was more dynamic and explosive in the bass thou.

cheers

I did own or listen in my - or friends- system various Phonostages (Aesthetix Rhea, Boulder, FM Acoustics 222, Klyne 6/7, Kondo M7/SFz, Linn, Nagra VPS, Pass Xono, Tron 7, TW and some others) i bought a Lamm LP2 and that's it.
I think, the Phono stage is the most important unit in an analogue System. Good luck.

Sutherland Hubble