Equally as important as a good turntable and cartridge is the phono preamplifier. Even some higher end audio equipment that have phono preamplifiers built in have put little effort into the quality of the phono preamplifier as they assume that at a certain level the consumer will add their own external unit that will usually outperform the internal one.
Phono Stages
Lehmannaudio:
The Lehmannaudio line of legendary phono stages are German made. Each high-end phono preamplifier is MM-/MC-capable and have a configurable impedance.
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Website: www.lehmannaudio.com