I haven't covered much in the way of vacuum tube components this year, but when I heard the new ModWright PH 9.0 tube phono preamp I knew it deserved a more extended listen at home.

Buy Schiit Mani Phono Preamp . 4. Little Bear T7 Vacumn Tube Mini Phono. The Little Bear can keep up with some of the bigger bears here with impressive audio quality for its size and class.

It may be a tube design, but it didn't sound overly sweet or romantic until I compared it with a solid-state phono preamplifier, the Lehmann Black Cube SE II ($1,149). The Vintage 6SL7's sound was ...

The phono section of the PL-P has been reincarnated several times over the years through the Nagra VPS vacuum tube phono preamp, the BPS, the Classic Phono (released in 2020), ... However, you don’t ...

Next up is the Bellari VP130, another phono preamp optimized for moving-magnet and high-output moving-coil cartridges. An audiophile favorite for years, it uses vacuum tube circuitry for warm ...

A phono preamp takes the very low output from a standard turntable (and very, very, very low output if said turntable is equipped with an MC cartridge) and amplifies it to line level so your preamp ...

Tube Box DS3 B phono stage: £949 / $1299 / €1049 MC Step Up Box DS3 B: £799 / $1099 / €899 MC Step Up Box S3: £399 / $549 / €449. MORE: This year's winners at the What Hi-Fi? Awards . Best stereo ...