The PhoNote MC was a phono stage that I was involved with back in the early 2000s.
It's an all valve design using ECC82 and ECC83 valves and was introduced as we were struggling to find a phono stage that offered the performance we wanted along with a beefy output stage to drive everything including the Music First Audio TVC pre amplifiers, which we were selling a lot of at time.
We specified it to include aluminium casework, passive eq, low impedance cathode follower output stage, silver RCA sockets along with a substantial (twin choke) power supply. This is the MC model and features high quality input transformers for the initial gain of the tiny signals coming out of Moving Coil cartridges.
This is our original ex demonstration unit, there are a couple off light scratches but they are not as visually intrusive to the eye as I've made one appear in the picture.
It has been updated with our uprated mains transformer.
It was very well reviewed at the time and sonically is still a delight today.
The RRP was £1,750.
We do not have the original packaging, but we will ensure it is well boxed if it's shipped.
