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Sander deWaal

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said:

We were kicking around the concept that the phono section should be at
the turntable instead of the preamp, indeed, if you have a stereo amp
with volume control you shouldn't need a preamp, but also because the
phono section should be close, very close, to the cartridge, as with a
tube or FET condenser mic.

What are some good solid state phono section designs? Should they
treat the cartridge as a balanced source (four wire) or not and should
plus and minus DC rails be needed or should a monopolar supply be used?
What have you readers out there built and liked?

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.

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

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