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 And that's something that is harder to come by in those built in preamplifiers. So I could choose from any number of phono preamplifiers to use in my own system, but I own this piece myself and I chose it for a very specific reason. My desk here at Crutchfield headquarters used to be fairly small. When we re-innovated in 2021, I got a much larger desk and I saw an opportunity to start listening to my favorite records while I'm working

 And when you go for a separate component like this, you're going to get improved sound quality and you also get a lot more versatility. For instance, you get the opportunity with this one to use a moving magnet or a moving coil cartridge. And that's something that is harder to come by in those built in preamplifiers. So I could choose from any number of phono preamplifiers to use in my own system, but I own this piece myself and I chose it for a very specific reason

 Hi, my name is Eric. I'm a writer here at Crutchfield, and today we're going to talk about the Cambridge Duo Phono Preamplifier. So the Cambridge Duo has inputs for moving magnet and moving coil cartridges, so it's a little more versatile. And it also has a headphone amplifier built in, so you can do private listening or perhaps everyone else in the house is asleep and you still want to listen to records

 But I happen to be a big fan of jazz music and especially some of the vintage labels like Impulse and Blue Note Records. And I have a lot of those and I just happen to think they sound a lot better in their original analog pressings. And I have some of those at my desk and I'm able to listen to them and hear them really with spacious sound, very warm analog sound. That's something that we talk about a lot with vinyl

Cambridge Duo headphone amplifier & phono preamp | Crutchfield

vinyl sounds more detailed, with a bigger, more expansive soundstage. (I'm pretty sure the MP-200 and Duo are helping bring out that detail as well.)

..vinyl sounds more detailed, with a bigger, more expansive soundstage. (I'm pretty sure the MP-200 and Duo are helping bring out that detail as well

Congrats on the new setup man. The Heresy's are my dream speakers, definitely the next (and final) upgrade to my system. My dad has an early pair that he bought in college that I spent countless hours of my childhood listening to, so there's definitely a sentimental attachment to Klipsh for me. But they are absolutely a high quality build that I am sure you will love for years to come🤘🏼!

<div class="md"><p>Congrats on the new setup man. The Heresy&#39;s are my dream speakers, definitely the next (and final) upgrade to my system. My dad has an early pair that he bought in college that I spent countless hours of my childhood listening to, so there&#39;s definitely a sentimental attachment to Klipsh for me. But they are absolutely a high quality build that I am sure you will love for years to come🤘🏼!</p>
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Splurged last weekend on a set of Heresy IVs and a Naim Uniti Atom

 It is not as detailed as my Emotiva XPS-1 (2nd gen), but in some ways that is good. The Emo seems to reveal every flaw in the vinyl. The Cambridge seemed to blow right over those without muddying the music. The headphone amp and volume control is a nice feature, but if you have a decent pre amp or stereo that you are feeding, you may not gain a benefit

 After spending three hours with the device, I have enough information to draw a conclusion. First off, the product came in a nice large box with the typical Cambridge nylon-like wrapping around the amplifier. It also uses a traditional 3 prong cord that you see on a computer desktop or laptop. Presumably it is powering a strong power supply housed within the unit

  System - Pro-ject Debut Carbon with acrylic platter, Ortofon 2m Blue (MM), ->phono amp->Yamaha Aventage 1030 (functioning as preamp) -> Outlaw 5000 amp -> B&W 683 towers. Also using Sennheiser 600 cans.  + Nice fit and finish, solid feel to the case + Labels for the inputs are written upside down and right side up, which is a nice touch + Balance knob in the back, useful if using the headphone amp that's built in + Having the headphone amp allows you to spin your vinyl without turning on the downstream components. + Sound - it has a nice musical quality to it

 The reason I bought this particularly unit was the hope that it would stronger voltage numbers compared to my Yamaha, that I would get an improvement, along with the fact that it is a shorter signal path. Alas, it made no difference in sound quality. It also isn't as powerful as the Yamaha. I had it at about 85% volume and that was equivalent to about -20 db on the Yamaha

Lively amplifier, some early quality issues

 So I'm stealing about a centimeter, but I'm pretty sure the amp can cope with having the rest of the vent free. But you can see, I can still get to the headphone here and the volume control and the buttons. It just goes a little bit behind that lip. But turning it on sounds as good as the previous one, really

 The reviews of it, they all gave it five out of five within its price range. Of course you can spend thousands on cartridges, but as I say, when you start to get like really high end, then they end up being the moving coil ones with the low output, which I don't want anyway, but this was the cartridge I chose. And also I was able to get it for just under 80 pounds from Richer Sounds. It comes in a cardboard box

 The wire that came with it was too short though. It's definitely too short for my HiFi to reach from where I wanted it to the floor where the plug is. So instead I just substituted it with one of my own, which is one of the great things you can do when a device has a built-in transformer and uses a standard plug on the back. Of course, label the plug as well

 It goes straight back into it. And I was happy to see that even when you pull the plug and then put it back in, press the on switch, it will remember whatever the last one you use was. I just like little features like that. When they don't work like that, things get a little bit frustrating

HiFi - Swapping a Turntable Cartridge & The Cambridge Alva Duo Phono Pre-Amp

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That Vinyl Channel

. most of the recordings from the 70's-80's just stink though. I was hoping the records might do better. They didn't

 The recordings (in general) stink though.  I'm glad I didn't listen to the audiophiles and drop a ton of cash on a phono pre-amp! It's not magic; it's just amplifying the same crappy recordings they made then. I'll be streaming any new music I buy.

Glad I Didn't Spend More!

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I have an AT-LP120XBT-USB as a turntable with Edifier Active Speakers (a pretty basic setup). I was wondering if y'all had any recommendations for preamps? I'm in the U.S., my budget is ideally &lt;$60. 

I'm a college student, so I'm not ready to spend quite a bit on my setup just yet. I know in the future I will upgrade to passive speakers with a decent-ish receiver, and in the far far future I'll get a better turntable, but is there any preamps &lt;$60 that are better than the built-in one I have right now? Or would investing that money in a receiver and passive speakers be a better use of my time? I already upgraded the cartridge to an Ortofon 2M Red, so it's not a completely stock setup. 

Any brands to look out for, or other general advice, would be greatly appreciated! Also, I'm based in Atlanta, and I know there's a rich history of music here, so any recommendations on shops to buy audio equipment, groups on FB, etc. would also be appreciated. Have a great rest of your day!

<div class="md"><p>I have an AT-LP120XBT-USB as a turntable with Edifier Active Speakers (a pretty basic setup). I was wondering if y&#39;all had any recommendations for preamps? I&#39;m in the U.S., my budget is ideally &lt;$60. </p>

<p>I&#39;m a college student, so I&#39;m not ready to spend quite a bit on my setup just yet. I know in the future I will upgrade to passive speakers with a decent-ish receiver, and in the far far future I&#39;ll get a better turntable, but is there any preamps &lt;$60 that are better than the built-in one I have right now? Or would investing that money in a receiver and passive speakers be a better use of my time? I already upgraded the cartridge to an Ortofon 2M Red, so it&#39;s not a completely stock setup. </p>

<p>Any brands to look out for, or other general advice, would be greatly appreciated! Also, I&#39;m based in Atlanta, and I know there&#39;s a rich history of music here, so any recommendations on shops to buy audio equipment, groups on FB, etc. would also be appreciated. Have a great rest of your day!</p>
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Phono Preamp Advice

 Let's go ahead and get this open and take a look at it, so like I said it's sealed, so I got my knife here and we got that there, we're going to go ahead and open this up and go ahead and get this, there we go and I'm going to look around, so we've got a bunch of wires, we have an instruction manual, so everything looks to be in its place, let's go ahead and get everything out and take it apart and let's see if we can get this together.5 to RCA, okay we got that, we have a standard power adapter, it's probably 5 volts but I can't really see it, but we've got some tubes here in the boxes, now I have been looking at, I've already been looking at upgrading the tubes on this, I got a couple tubes in my cart on Amazon, but a lot of people say that these tubes actually aren't that bad, so I'm going to go ahead and give these a whirl for a few weeks just to see how well I like them and decide if I really want to upgrade these tubes or not. So here is the actual preamp itself, let's go ahead and get this box out of the way, I don't think we're going to need it anymore, I'm going to give you a close up here, a video of this, what this looks like, it looks like it shouldn't be too hard to finish setting this up. Okay so not a whole lot to this, so here are the tubes here like I showed you all earlier, it said the first step is to go ahead and get these tubes installed, so let me go ahead and it said go ahead and be careful, now I'm 56 years old so I remember where tubes were much more common, we had tubes in a couple of our TV sets, of course my dad would take care of stuff like that, I don't think I remember actually installing tubes before so this would be my first time, I do think it only goes in one way, I think they're keyed so I don't think that you can screw it up even if you want to, so it looks like, again let me show you the actual tube itself, so it looks like it's bent just a little bit right there but I think it should be okay once I push it in, so it looks like it goes in like this, so it should just push right in right, I believe that's it, I believe that's in, so we're going to go ahead and open up the second tube up, we got it packed pretty well so it doesn't move around, again the pins are just slightly bent but I don't think it matters that much, again it's keyed so it only goes in one way, you really can't put it in wrong, so that goes in, that should be that as far as the tubes go, go ahead and get these little papers out of the way here, see we don't really need this here because this is for the plug in on the front, it does come with a plug in the front here for like a line in if you want to plug your cell phone or a tablet or a laptop into this and use it as an amplifier to go ahead and go through your stereo, I won't be using that probably ever if seldomly, so on the back here we do have the standard jacks, we have the input here for the turntable left and right and we have the output which goes to your stereo and we do have, oh it's a 12 volt, so it's a 12 volt adapter so that gets plugged in the wall and you take your turntable that has a ground wire and it plugs into that, it's pretty basic stuff so I don't see any dip switches to change it between the two different kind of cartridges but it shouldn't matter too much, on the front it has this gain knob for as it goes up it gets louder and it gets softer and then you can turn it all the way off and pretty much that's it, so what I'm going to go ahead and do is I'm going to go ahead and walk over and hook this up

Fosi Audio Box X2  UNBOXING! (Phono Turntable Preamp) | Vinyl Community

more than a few times now, i've seen people talk about the Fosi Audio Box X2 and how great it is for the price. recently, my Pioneer SX-780 needed a repair so i had to revert back to an AKAI AA-R30. the difference in sound quality from the amps alone was massive, and the AA-R30 has a nice balanced sound, but it lacks any warmth and it has a very messy bass sound from it's phono input. one night i decided to pick this up and as i'm listening now, it's just unbelievable! soon i am going to be replacing the tubes, but even with the stock tubes it's made a huge difference to my sound quality on my system!! the music itself has a warmer sound and it feels much more alive while listening

 the soundstage shows a huge improvement as well, with a much grander sound. the bass is kept tight, where you can hear the notes themself, unlike the sloppy sound of the amp's built-in phono. i really enjoy the highs as well, a few times where i thought they'd sound piercing and too overboard, they were still controlled.  overall: if you're looking for a starter external phono-preamp, i'd highly recommend this!

 the difference in sound quality from the amps alone was massive, and the AA-R30 has a nice balanced sound, but it lacks any warmth and it has a very messy bass sound from it's phono input. one night i decided to pick this up and as i'm listening now, it's just unbelievable! soon i am going to be replacing the tubes, but even with the stock tubes it's made a huge difference to my sound quality on my system!! the music itself has a warmer sound and it feels much more alive while listening. the soundstage shows a huge improvement as well, with a much grander sound. the bass is kept tight, where you can hear the notes themself, unlike the sloppy sound of the amp's built-in phono

WOW!!

 It's more CD like, picking up more details on high end (as well as pops and clicks) compared to Fosi Audio. Does it mean Mani wins overall? NO! For quite few genres of music I would prefer the analog and full sound of Fosi Audio! I was also surprised by myself and I even doubt it in the first place. If I listen to Daft Punk's Random Access Memories, I found myself more enjoying the groovy and warm sound of synthesizers coming from Fosi. It's really amazing that for less than half price, Fosi can provide with not only close details, but also fuller and musically sound

  - update Anyone interested to the sound quality could search "[Vinyl] Daft Punk - Lose Yourself To Dance - Random Access Memories | Ortofon 2M Black" on youtube. Thanks for watching and enjoy!

 Sound Quality. I would say Schiit Mani wins a bit on instrument separation and clarity. It's more CD like, picking up more details on high end (as well as pops and clicks) compared to Fosi Audio. Does it mean Mani wins overall? NO! For quite few genres of music I would prefer the analog and full sound of Fosi Audio! I was also surprised by myself and I even doubt it in the first place

 To summery, if you like the crisp, CD-like sound, choose Mani. Otherwise, for full, punchy music, and rich soundstage, choose Fosi. You will NOT regret. 2

Fosi Audio (with upgraded Tube) vs. Schiit Mani

 The lows of the bass and the highs of Brian Johnson’s vocals truly show the difference. Let it play for 2 minutes with digital to get your ears used to it. Then switch to tube. I’ve tried this test with three friends who are not audiophiles, to make sure that I was not just hearing what I wanted to hear

 All three agreed, there is a difference.  If you are serious enough to have vinyl, then $70 is a small price to pay for the sound difference.  Y-split it. If you don’t agree, return it

 Then switch to tube. I’ve tried this test with three friends who are not audiophiles, to make sure that I was not just hearing what I wanted to hear. All three agreed, there is a difference.  If you are serious enough to have vinyl, then $70 is a small price to pay for the sound difference

YES!!  Definitely buy one!

This is probably the biggest bang for your buck. If you’re just starting out you can’t go wrong here. Just upgrade your tubes and you’ll be really pleased.

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