Has anyone actually bought a Zesto Phono preamp?

We used this phono preamp in our room at THE SHOW Las Vegas. The rest of the system was our own Electra-Fidelity A3-500 300B monoblocks and OTL preamp, Fritz Carbon 7 Speakers, Resolution Audio Cantata, and Denon DP-3000 turntable completely refurbished by Concert Fidelity. Cabling was by WyWires.

This was the first time I had an opportunity to listen to the Zesto unit at length, having previously heard it briefly at RMAF and THE SHOW Newport. IMO the unit, in addition to being well built and attractive, performs extremely well and for a tubed phono stage is extremely quiet. I would agree with Hifimaniac's comments on the sound and add that we played a number of different musical genres and the unit did not disappoint us.

Disclaimer: I am a reseller for Electra-Fidelity, Resolution Audio, WyWires, and the Concert Fidelity refurbished Denon DP-3000.

I own one and it is a great phono stage and IMO competes very effectively with anything in the $6K to $10K range. I also own the EAR 868 full function preamp with built in phono stage. I can say for sure that the Zesto outperforms the EAR internal phono stage in all the areas that are important to me including resolution, soundstage, transparency and lack of grain. This using the EAR's linestage feeding an EAR 534 and Marten Form speakers. I do know the designer and Zesto president George personally but I have no financial interest in the company. To clarify an earlier remark, the company is Zesto Audio and the model is the Andros PS-1. There is also a line stage preamp in prototype stage now which will make its debut at the Newport Beach, CA show.

Alexs or Clio09
How wall does this phono preamp do rock or blues? My 2 previous tube phono stages had extremely good decay which served natural instruments but did not have the attack that properly portrays electric instruments.

Alexs- After chatting with Paul Seydor about the Andros, he suggested I contact George and Carolyn to ask if they would send out a demo, which should arrive sometime next week - wonderfully nice people. I am curious about your further impressions and comparisons. I currently own an EAR 834p Deluxe, which I'm currently A/B-ing with a colleague's Herron VTPH-2. Of course, there are characteristics of each's presentation that I enjoy, with neither frankly the clear successor to the other, IMHO (e.g. the EAR with my jazz vinyl/the Herron with my classical vinyl). So, I'm obviously very curious to hear where the Andros may fit within this trio.

Rlw3, sorry for the delayed response. When I borrowed the Zesto for our room I played a lot of rock music LPs. The phono stage did not disappoint me in the least. We cranked up Money from Dark Side of the Moon a number of times and the reproduction was everything you would expect, especially in regards to the attack you referenced. We also played some Steely Dan, Allman Brothers (Eat a Peach), Tom Verlaine, and a few other classic rock LPs. It really is a nice phono stage and we will have it in our room at Newport as well.