Musical Fidelity V90-LPS MM/MC Phono Preamp

The V90-LPS is a modestly priced, very high performance MM/MC phono stage with superb technical performance. In our opinion, there are five critical areas where a phono stage must achieve excellence: RIAA correction  Correction above 20 kHz  Low distortion  Low noise  Good overload margin  The V90-LPS has extremely accurate RIAA correction and that extends up to 80 kHz and beyond. That may sound extreme, but there is a good deal of information above 20 kHz that needs correction. If it isn’t corrected, it will show itself as ringing and overshoot.  The V90-LPS’s distortion is very low. Noise ratio is extremely low and all but inaudible.  Overload margin is easily adequate for any current cartridge.  All in all, the V90-LPS accomplishes everything necessary for a phono stage.  There are many phono stages that are far more expensive and make extraordinary claims for their performance. In contrast, the modest V90-LPS just gets on with the job of doing everything you could reasonably expe