Conrad JOHNSON Phono Preamps

I have a CJ PV-3 bought used. A bit long-in-the-tooth but still capable of excellent sound! It does have a line stage. But still a great find for a few hundred dollars!

The PV-3 can be used as a phono stage alone by the tape-out jacks!

the PV-5 had a great MM phono stage in its day. Very musical sounding. many of the reviewers used it as their ref piece.
I owned a PV-5, 8, 11 and 12. The 5 was the only the only model I regretted selling. It has quite a cut following.

C-J makes wonderful stuff including/especially phono preamps.  I currently own their top TEA1series3, but before that had a TEA2, and before that a ET3 and before that...well you get the idea.  Nobody ever got hurt buying C-J.  They are competitive at every price point, usually best in class.  I believe you could have your ET3 modified at the factory to have the phono stage built in probably at a cost savings as compared to buying a stand-alone unit.

@billstevenson 

Bill, thanks for feedback 
yep, cannot go wrong with CJ 

tea1. Wow ,
I was wondering why all the CJ phono preamps are lower on gain ....
Then, Duh....CJ linestage are 25 db vs 8-9 db for most

so., how was tea2 vs tea1 ?  Are either noisy?
any sound characteristics to note vs linestage ?

jeff

ps: what are you running for system ?      It must be spectacular
      Do you run a GAT?