Fonolab

Remton Audio LCR tube phono stage

Dual Mono Reference Balanced Model

As it is well known, phono cartridges are all balanced. This is because a phono cartridge is a coil of wire with two ends—naturally balanced audio comes out.

Unfortunately, it’s mostly connected as if it was a single ended device.

By using our balanced QVATTVOR Step-Up transformer, you still retain the original balanced signal.

But when designing our first fully balanced step-up transformer, we were prepared for the question, what's next?

We got the answer to this question from Remton Audio - our long-term partner in analog audio. With our input, Remton Audio created a Reference fully balanced phono preamlifier based on the well-known Remton Audio LCR model.

Remton Audio also took into account our small improvements regarding shielding and vibration suppression.

Minor changes were also made regarding the choice of electronic components of the original circuit.

The result is a fully balanced phono stage with all the advantages of such solution, namely common-mode rejection, where noise signals are squashed, lower noise and distortion.

A balanced cartridge, a balanced transformer combined with a balanced phono stage, so we've taken the magic of analog signaling one step further.