On March 13, 2018 at 10:07, Fred Harding said...
Used to have an Advent 300. Great sounding phono preamp, designed by a guy who later did stuff with a film maker... Little 15 watt amp, but had pre out/main in loops, so you could feed an external amp as needed. Used to sell them to the right customers by doing an A/B comparison with a 185 watt Pioneer receiver.
Were you comparing the power amp, the phono preamp or the overall sound? We sold Pioneer and Sony- I bought a Sony TA-4650 integrated amp, rated at 30W/ch and it had VFet outputs, as well as VFets in the phono section. I was also using an Audio Technica AT30E moving coil cartridge without a MC head amp and could still get usable output. The SX-1280 and SX-1980? Only heard a whisper from the same cartridge and the sound quality of those two- not even close to the Sony. They were big and loud, but....
