"Ruud Broens" said:

: An old idea of mine: a small SMD RIAA conversion amp built right into
: the headshell or the arm.
: That could be so lightweight as to almost not disturb the resonance
: frequency of the arm/cart combo.
: Differential inputs and phantom power supply.

: One of these days I'm going to try that.

Hehe, i can tell, you've taken apart harddisks, right ?
preamp there right on the arm, on a kevlar flex pcb :-)
RB


I must confess that opening up a HDD gave me the idea ;-)

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Sander de Waal
" SOA of a KT88? Sufficient. "