The CH phono preamplifier includes three inputs, two of which are current mode MC and one of which has a conventional voltage gain-based architecture that be used in either MM or MC mode.
Like T.H.E. Show at The Flamingo Hotel during the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas, High End Munich has a parasitic "outboard" show, this year held at the Marriott. I went there specifically to visit Touraj Moghaddam and check out his Vertere line of turntables and especially his reference $20K+ pick-up arm.
During the 1960s, Dual, Elac/Benjamin-Miracord and Perpetuum Exner were Germany's leading turntable manufacturers and the brands best known to Americans. PE was probably the least well-distributed and more exotic of the three.
Thomas Brieger, Octave's Director of Sales and Marketing and Octave's owner Andreas Hofmann, take us inside the Octave Phono Module Phono Preamplifier.
The lead photo is from last year's show. Preparing now for this year's show, which promises to be bigger and better—and last year's show was impressive in every way.