Musical Fidelity V90 LPS Phonostage – Black

Here we have a neat budget phono stage from Musical Fidelity. It is in good fully working condition with a few very minor blemishes – please see photographs. It comes suitably packaged with power supply unit plus our normal three month warranty.
Musical Fidelity Say….
The V90-LPS is a modestly priced, very high performance MM/MC phono stage with superb technical performance.
In our opinion, there are five critical areas where a phono stage must achieve excellence:
1. RIAA correction
2. Correction above 20 kHz
3. Low distortion
4. Low noise
5. Good overload margin
The V90-LPS has extremely accurate RIAA correction and that extends up to 80 kHz and beyond. That may sound extreme, but there is a good deal of information above 20 kHz that needs correction. If it isn’t corrected, it will show itself as ringing and overshoot.
The V90-LPS’s distortion is very low. Noise ratio is extremely low and all but inaudible.
Overload margin is easily adequate for any current cartridge.
All in all, the V90-LPS accomplishes everything necessary for a phono stage.
There are many phono stages that are far more expensive and make extraordinary claims for their performance. In contrast, the modest V90-LPS just gets on with the job of doing everything you could reasonably expect from a phono stage.
If you want top notch performance, and don’t care about the alleged conferred status of buying a high priced product that offers no better performance than the V90-LPS, then we are of a like mind.
Specifications:
Performance
Input impedance: 47 kOhm (MM); 100 Ohm (MC)
Input sensitivity: 3.0 mV (MM); 400 µV (MC) – for 300 mV out
Total harmonic distortion: 0.01% (MM/MC) – @ 1 kHz, 300 mV out
Frequency Response: +0, –0.1 dB, 20 Hz to 20 kHz
Signal / Noise ratio (A weighted): >80 dB (MM); >70 dB (MC)
Input overload margin: 15 dB (MM); 22 dB (MC)
RIAA response: +/- 0.25 dB
Inputs: MM: 1 pair RCA sockets; MC: 1 pair RCA sockets
Outputs: 1 pair RCA sockets
Dimensions: 170 (W) x 102 (D) x 47 (H) mm
Weight: 600 g

Hi-Fi Choice magazine awarded it 5* rating in its review and said….

“It’s way less than most “serious” vinylistas would spend on a phono stage, yet its performance doesn’t fall far short of several £500 designs.”