WTB - MC Phono Stage - Transistor or Tube, New or Old.

[Dynamic Turtle]

Hi, just after something to replace my Project Phonobox, which was a temporary budget stop-gap. Not looking to spend more than £150 ideally. Not after the last word, just something listenable - no transistor nasties in the treble & all that.

Cart output is .35mV, so needs plenty of gain.

Quite happy buying something from yesteryear (though nothing from the seventies or eighties please - I don't want an antique!), or something esoteric/DIY/Chinese.

Seller must be willing to accept Paypal or offer collection from Central London.

Rgds,
DT

 

[Dynamic Turtle]

OK, thanks for the great response guys!

Nick from home cinema centre in Edinburgh has made me a decent offer on a Project Tubebox 2, so I've accepted it. Got the three things I'm looking for - decent MC gain, triode amplification and a warp filter.

I owned a Tubebox MkI for about a year and it sounded great, so hopefully this will have most of its forebear's sonic DNA.

Look forward to receiving it next week.

DT