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PS Audio Stellar Phono Stage
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PS Audio Stellar Phono Stage

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£2,495.00    
£2,079.17 Exc. VAT |  |
  

PS Audio Stellar Phono Stage

Redefine Your Record Collection

Built in Boulder

PS Audio’s first product was a phono preamplifier that took the Hi-Fi world by storm in 1975. Its designers, Paul and Stan, labored for years over every circuit detail with one goal in mind—making musical magic. Stellar Phono shares that same ethos.

Based on a unique all discrete FET topology, Stellar Phono stands out in a crowded field of conventional IC designs. Its sound is rich, warm and enticing as only vinyl through hand-tuned class-A circuitry can be.

Stellar Phono is a triumph of performance and value that you’ll instantly recognize from that first needle drop, as music emerges from a velvet blackness, filling the room as if there were no speakers.

When PS engineer Darren Myers set his sights on building the best phono stage our company has ever produced, he had his work cut out for him. With the advantage of modern upgraded FET semiconductors and a fresh approach to the art of phono preamplification at his side, Darren wiped the tradition slate clean by hand-fashioning a new approach to the challenge of amplifying and preserving all the magic trapped in the grooves of our records. The results are breathtaking. Music that might once have been locked into the confines of our loudspeakers is suddenly free. What you hear fills the room with a rich tonality that has always been vinyl’s promise, but rarely fulfilled to the degree Stellar has achieved.

Stellar phono features dual inputs that can support either a moving coil or moving magnet cartridge, or a two-tonearm set up to enjoy the best of each at the user’s discretion. Cartridge loading and gain options are easily adjusted from your listening position via the supplied remote control.

Phono preamplifiers at anywhere near this price range are almost always integrated circuit based, but not Stellar. Input to output, Stellar is a fully discrete FET design with extraordinarily low noise and high overload capabilities so even the wildest dynamics from the punchiest cartridges sail through Stellar with no limitations or compromise whatsoever.

If you love vinyl you’ll love Stellar.

  • Moving Magnet and Moving Coil preamplifier
  • Fixed and variable cartridge loading adjustable from remote control
  • Up to 70dB of ultra low noise gain for MC cartridges as low as 0.15mv
  • Two inputs for two tonearms selectable from remote control
  • Single ended and balanced outputs
  • All discrete FET design
  • Class A analog circuitry throughout
  • No ICs in signal path
  • Up to 20V rms output for unparaleled headroom and dynamics
  • Passive RIAA curve for seamless performance
  • Hand selected premium discrete components
  • DC coupled from input to output for unfettered bass
  • Ultra low noise discrete pre and post voltage regulation stages
  • Low internal feedback for increased transparency and openness
  • No complimentary FET transistors for lifelike performance
  • High current oversized power transformer
  • Remote control
  • Front panel standby button

 

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Phenomenal
20 June 2024  | 

Wow. Upgrading from an excellent Graham Slee Revelation phono MM stage, and using the Dynavector 10x5 HOMC, the immediate thing I heard was the disappearence of the slight boominess and lack of control of low frequencies, and secondly, the forward sound of that amp. The PS Audio unit is also far more transparent and "alive". In summary:

- generally, much more natural sounding
- non fatiguing, neutral sound signature
- superior transparency
- cleaner, lower noise floor
- better, deeper linear bass, with control and zero booming
- more micro and macro detail
- wider, deeper, more layered 3D holographic soundstage. The soundstage is pushed back several rows
- superior seperation and space between instruments
- pinpoint stereo imaging
- detailed but smooth high frequencies
- superior midrange clarity and spaciousness

This is the real deal. Good enoogh for me to now upgrade the cartridge to a 2k plus low output moving coil.

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Excellent Phono Stage
21 June 2021  | 

This item was bought via mail order and arrived quite swiftly.
It replaces my EAR324 and impresses with its good flexibility and sound.

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Marvellous
15 October 2019  | 

Spatial, vivid, lifelike performer! The best I have ever listened to.

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