Cyrus 40 ppa

If you play records, no other electronic component in your system has as much impact on the sound as the humble phono stage. There aren’t many talented units around the £500 mark, so when we come acro

Aphono stage such as this Graham Slee offering amplifies the output of a typical moving-magnet cartridge (around 4-5mV, 1kHz/5cm/s) by more than 100 times. A typical moving-coil signal (0.3-0.5mV, 1kH

Don’t judge it on appearances. The unassuming casework hides a phono-circuit design of considerable merit, and a sonic performance that rivals the best at this price. The Limetree Phono II is small, b

It is easy to underestimate a speaker like Fyne Audio’s Vintage Classic X. They look like they have been time-warped from the 1970s, with a huge, wider-than-deep walnut-covered cabinet and lovely adju

If your music system includes a turntable, then no other component is as important to the sound of your vinyl as the humble phono stage, aka phono preamplifier. This vital part of the chain is what ma

Pathos’s Inpol Remix MkII is an easy amplifier to underestimate. It’s about the size of a child’s shoebox and has a modest claimed power output of just 25W per channel into 8 ohms. That’s the kind of