REFLEX C (MOVING COIL)
If you're tired of the uncomfortable plodding sound of moving coil and its limping bass, and are dying for some real excitement from the records you really want to play, then seriously consider the Reflex C.
The Reflex C phono stage preamp is our new one box solution for conventional (low) output moving coil cartridges having an output of 0.2 to 1.0 mV.
Innovative
Imagine a tube/valve solution for moving coil phono stage pre-amplification? If only! Unfortunately tubes/valves don't have the open-loop gain and are too noisy to do moving coil pre-amplification unless you also use a step-up transformer (or even better, our Elevator EXP flat gain step-up stage). But now, with the Reflex C phono stage preamp you can get the sound you're searching for - yes, that illusive tube/valve linearity from solid state!
But how? Conventional solid state moving coil phono stage preamps have poor open-loop bandwidth which means their open-loop response is only a few tens of hertz. Negative feedback straightens their response out but obviously it has to make a 45 degree slope into a horizontal line - in doing so it introduces phase modulation.
The Reflex C phono stage preamp has more than ten times the open-loop bandwidth which means, for the same amount of negative feedback there is an over tenfold reduction in phase modulation. It has been known for several years that tubes/valves have this property (albeit at much lower gain) but there wasn't the technology available to replicate it in solid state, and at the required gain. Now there is!
But that's not the full story. There are lots more refinements designed to take the Reflex C phono stage preamp's own influences out of the music's way, including excellent radio frequency rejection at input, power supply input and output, as well as selection from the best branded components available that gel to make the most precise sound stage delivering an unbeatable moving coil musical experience.
Specification:
* Input range: 0.2mV to 1.0mV
* Output (for input range): 252mV to 1,260mV (1.26V)
* Maximum input: 3.9mV rms
* Maximum output: 4.914V rms
* Gain: 62dB (1,260) at 1kHz
* Input impedance: 100 Ohms
* Output (driving/source) impedance: 1k Ohm
* Recommended load impedance: 10k Ohm or greater
* Noise at output: -62dB CCIR Q-pk
* Equivalent input noise (EIN): -124dB
* Distortion: 0.02%
* RIAA accuracy: less than 0.5dB
* Frequency response: 20Hz - 200kHz (flat, corrected to RIAA)
* Channel balance: 0.2dB
* Channel separation: 64dB
* Size: (approx.) W: 107 x H: 50 x D: 180 (mm) inc. jacks