Analog Gear News

—Sardinia, Italy July 29th, 2016: At the WOM (World of McIntosh) Convention, McIntosh introduced a new moderately priced $2000 remote controlled MM/MC Phono Preamplifier with built-in A/D converter.

This is the company's first ever stand-alone phono preamplifier. It features a mono button, front panel adjustable MM capacitance and MC resistive loading plus a clipping warning light for the A/D converter. You can lower the output with the push of a front panel (or remote control) button to avoid clipping.

On the back are MM and MC single-ended RCA jacks, balanced XLR and single-ended outputs and USB, SPDIF RCA and Toslink outputs The sampling rate of the A/D converter is 96/24.

Analogplanet hopes to get one for review by the end of August.