PHONO STAGE

[barrieJ]

Hi all,

Hope everyone had a good christmas. I'm needing a
phone stage for my Arcam A90+P90 as Santa got me a Linn LP12 for
christmas. I live in the highlands not close to many hifi shops. I
was thinking of getting the the Cambridge Audio AZUR 360P at £60
(insadently can only find it at richard sound at £100???) because it
pretty much plug and play, also considering Heed Audio Questar mm. I'v
costed Arcam A90 phone stage £70 and travel time of over 6 hours but
the main reason why i'm reluctant to have the phone stage add is, about
10 years ago i bought an arcam amp had a pre amp switch add to go with
the power amp and it sounded terrible.

Any help please??

Ps. I have copied this in to the LP forums

System ~ Arcam A90+P90+CD192, Monitor Audio RX6, Linn LP12 (moving magnet)

 

[John Duncan]

Presumably you mean the 640p, which is indeed a very good phono stage, but has become much poorer value for money since it went up from the 60 quid I paid for mine to £100. Personally though, I'd get the Arcam phono stage - if your amps are out of warranty I'm fairly sure you can fit it yourself. Am surprised that you've had bad experiences with them though - generally they're very good.

 

[barrieJ]

thanks for the advice