Whest TWO MM/MC Phonostage

As you know, 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 whestTWO to playback up to 53 kHz.

Brief history
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?

Forward thinking
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 OAP programme we then designed a high frequency filter that would complement the RIAA filter we had designed for the famed PhonoStage.20. This has now been incorporated into the whestTWO phonostage. Because of the extended high frequency response of the whestTWO, large amounts of information are now able to be heard when it was once thought there was nothing there!
The extended high frequency 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 high frequency response that the whestTWO excels where others just plainly fail.

RIAA curve accuracy: 17 Hz - 20 kHz, ± 0.17 dB
Amplifier Frequency Response: 5 Hz - 68 kHz, ± 1.5 dB
Working Band: 15 Hz - 53 kHz
MM Gain: 42 dB, 47 kΩ
MC Gain: 55 dB and 65 dB to suit all 0.2 mV - 2.0 mV cartridges
Cartridge Loading: 100 Ω, 470 Ω and 47 kΩ
Total Harmonic Distortion + Noise: 0.005%
Connections: Unbalanced RCA
Connectors: Gold Audiophile
Operating Voltage: 230 VAC 50 Hz
Dimensions: 140 (W) x 215 (D) x 45 (H) mm
Weight: 1.0 kg

Turnaround

Orders will usually dispatched within 2 working days of receiving cleared payment.

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