Whest Audio PS.30R Phonostage

Here we have a high quality MM/MC phono stage from British specialist Whest Audio. It comes in good fully working condition, noting a couple of minor blemishes on the fascia – please refer to photographs. It will be supplied professionally packaged with manual and our usual three month warranty.
Whest Audio say….
This unit is designed to retrieve the maximum amount of information from your vinyl LPs. It does this by using proprietary low noise audio circuitry as well as a newly developed filter which together with the RIAA filter enables the PS.30R to playback up to 60 kHz.
The RIAA curve was designed many years ago to enable the use of vinyl as a playback medium. Back then the humble stylus and audio electronics could really only playback a very limited bandwidth. A system bandwidth of 12 kHz was quite rare. Nowadays most systems have a bandwidth of 100 kHz; the modern day cartridge can playback frequencies beyond 60 kHz – so why continue to use a phonostage with a filter curve designed for systems designed in the 1950s?
Because of our close links with the music recording industry we were able to measure several Neumann cutter heads prior to cutting a master onto acetate. What we found was that the cutter head would cut high frequency all the way to 50 kHz!
With these results and the research acquired from the DAP programme we then designed a HF filter that would complement the RIAA filter we had designed for the MC REF V. This has now been incorporated into the PS.30R phonostage. Because of the extended HF response of the PS.30R, large amounts of information are now able to be heard when it was once thought there was nothing there!
The extended HF enables you to hear further into the soundstage by bringing to life the lowest frequencies of a kick drum and positioning all instruments to form a three dimensional soundstage.
It is because of the extended HF response and the PS.30Rs relationship with the MC REF V that the PS.30R excels where others just plainly fail.
The PS.30R also incorporates a new power supply configuration which enables the phonostage to occupy the same case as the transformer without the need of a separate box. This means the critical electronics can now utilise the ultra-stable, low noise and high speed power source in an instant – no delay lines! This translates into a lower noise floor, far better micro detail resolution, far better image stability and soundstaging which will bring you closer to the recording.
Specifications:
RIAA Curve Accuracy: 17 Hz – 20.5 kHz ± 0.2 dB or better
Frequency Response: 5 Hz – 62 kHz ± 1.0 dB
Working Band: 15 Hz – 60 kHz
Gain: 40 dB @ 47 kΩ (MM); 50 dB – 72 dB to suit all 0.15 – 2.5 mV cartridges (MC)
Cartridge Loading: 50 Ω – 47 kΩ in 6 steps
Total Harmonic Distortion + Noise: 0.002%
Connections: Unbalanced RCA, Impedance Balanced on 3-XLR
Connectors: Gold Audiophile RCA
Operating Voltage: 230 VAC 50 Hz or 115 VAC 60 Hz
Dimensions: 480 (W) x 300 (D) x 83 (H) mm
Weight: 5.0 kg