Catcher10
Prog-tastic!
Just starting a thread on this phonostage for my eventual review/impressions...I purchased this stage about 10 days ago, received it and only have about 6 hours on it. I had to go out of town for a week 2 days after arriving in the mail, so hence my desire to wait a bit.
Initial impressions are beyond impressive especially in the lowend reproductions, excellent gain and incredibly quiet background, again more to follow once it has more hours.
As you all know I have been using the NAD PP375 MDC module phono stage which I can only praise as a fantastic performer for its price point, wayyyy above its $200 price sticker.
I was contemplating the Nova II and had already made up my mind, received a quote from a dealer in California was ready to pull the trigger. But I kept reading that essentially the guts of the Nova II and Phonomena II are similar, big difference of course is battery power on the Nova II. I don't have any issues with power noise, I have clean power into my home never hear anything bad. The Nagaoka cartridge also is very quiet, so after talking to a few members about this, decided to save the extra cash for a future purchase, probably an MC cart.
I believe I made the right choice. Thanks to members slippers-on and arcorob for their feedback.
A few pics so I don't get slammed with :worthless ...and a more thorough review later.
Initial impressions are beyond impressive especially in the lowend reproductions, excellent gain and incredibly quiet background, again more to follow once it has more hours.
As you all know I have been using the NAD PP375 MDC module phono stage which I can only praise as a fantastic performer for its price point, wayyyy above its $200 price sticker.
I was contemplating the Nova II and had already made up my mind, received a quote from a dealer in California was ready to pull the trigger. But I kept reading that essentially the guts of the Nova II and Phonomena II are similar, big difference of course is battery power on the Nova II. I don't have any issues with power noise, I have clean power into my home never hear anything bad. The Nagaoka cartridge also is very quiet, so after talking to a few members about this, decided to save the extra cash for a future purchase, probably an MC cart.
I believe I made the right choice. Thanks to members slippers-on and arcorob for their feedback.
A few pics so I don't get slammed with :worthless ...and a more thorough review later.