Comments on: ifi Audio Zen Phono RIAA Preamplifier Review – And Now for Something Completely Different https://www.audioreviews.org/ifi-audio-zen-phono-preamplifier-review-bd/ Music for the Masses. Sun, 20 Feb 2022 20:29:10 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.0 By: ifi Audio Zen Phono RIAA Preamplifier Review - GearOpen.com https://www.audioreviews.org/ifi-audio-zen-phono-preamplifier-review-bd/#comment-1023 Sun, 29 Nov 2020 12:58:39 +0000 https://www.audioreviews.org/?p=27796#comment-1023 […] For those unfamiliar with the species, a phono preamplifier is a component that corrects the amplitude imbalance of the low vs high frequencies of a record (which exists because otherwise the low notes would give grooves with such big wiggles that hardly anything would fit on a side) and boosts the signal from the pickup cartridge to a level suitable for the ‘line’ input of a regular audio amplifier. These things have always been around, but in the days when vinyl was the main source of recorded music they were built in to most stereo amplifiers and stand-alone ones were ‘boutique’ and usually expensive.…Continue here:https://www.audioreviews.org/ifi-audio-zen-phono-preamplifier-review-bd/ […]

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