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Best of Phono 2015
23.12.2015
z. B.
Music First Reference Phono Stage
Originaltext : www.ear.net :
My recommendation for the Product of the Year must go, though, to Music First Audio’s Reference Phono Stage, recently reviewed. For once I really did have my breath taken away. Before anyone jumps on the proverbial bandwagon about ‘well, it should at that price’, or ‘so he’s got a hi-end system, so there’s no surprise there’, and other critical comments, I will say here and now that it was a very close-run thing, with the iPhono also in the frame, and looking at a digital source, the DiDiT DAC was also ‘up there’. Not that the iPhono isn’t a fantastic piece of kit, and for the money an astonishing bargain, or that the DAC doesn’t cut the mustard, because in their different ways they both do.
However, if one is paying ‘the ultimate price’, it’s rare, in my view, that you get the ultimate performance. With the Music First you got just that. In many ways that’s a taller order than making a great budget product because the more you have to spend on R&D etc, the harder it becomes to make the product that much better. That’s what clinched it for me. In my view the Reference Phono Stage really is that good.
Chris Beeching
Diese Phonostufe im Vergleich zu anderen guten Phonostufen gibt es auf unserem Analogabend am :
Freitag, 8.1.2016 ab 19:00 Uhr
Music First Reference Phono Stage
Originaltext : www.ear.net :
My recommendation for the Product of the Year must go, though, to Music First Audio’s Reference Phono Stage, recently reviewed. For once I really did have my breath taken away. Before anyone jumps on the proverbial bandwagon about ‘well, it should at that price’, or ‘so he’s got a hi-end system, so there’s no surprise there’, and other critical comments, I will say here and now that it was a very close-run thing, with the iPhono also in the frame, and looking at a digital source, the DiDiT DAC was also ‘up there’. Not that the iPhono isn’t a fantastic piece of kit, and for the money an astonishing bargain, or that the DAC doesn’t cut the mustard, because in their different ways they both do.
However, if one is paying ‘the ultimate price’, it’s rare, in my view, that you get the ultimate performance. With the Music First you got just that. In many ways that’s a taller order than making a great budget product because the more you have to spend on R&D etc, the harder it becomes to make the product that much better. That’s what clinched it for me. In my view the Reference Phono Stage really is that good.
Chris Beeching
Diese Phonostufe im Vergleich zu anderen guten Phonostufen gibt es auf unserem Analogabend am :
Freitag, 8.1.2016 ab 19:00 Uhr
