Reviewer: Mark Wheeler – TNT UK Reviewed: January-March 2019 Published: March, 2019 Introduction Hot on the heels of the QHW The Vinyl and the Gold Note PH10, arrives the £1400 Long Dog Audio MCJ3 Hybrid Valve Phono Stage. This is keenly priced below the LDA MCJ2 phono pre-amplifier (priced at £1900) by being sold directly…
Reviewer: Andrew Eastham – HiFi Wigwam Reviewed: April 2019 Read original review here The Longdog MCJ3 is a dedicated MC phono stage based on a sophisticated hybrid of jfets with valve technology. The valve component is a modest single ECC82 along with a pair of E88CCs, but it is quite clear from the first listening…
Moving magnet phono stage It’s an inconvenient fact of the vinyl enthusiast’s life that most turntables do not have a built in phono preamp or stage and equally that few integrated amplifiers offer such a feature today. In order to enjoy a turntable you need the extra amplification and equalisation that a phono stage provides,…