What is the best pre-amp to Beogram turntables?

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Hello everybody,

I need to buy a pre-amp to connect my BG5005 to my BM6500.

I was searching for them in local electronics shop and in eBay... I found nice ones by NAD and Pro-ject, and cheaper "non branded" in eBay, like this.

What are your thoughts/experience on this?

Cheers! 

How good are you with electronics?  If you're familiar with soldering you can easily build your own with a kit such as this one.  It will outperform preamps costing much more.  It's built around a good opamp, and I've had great results with it.  It doesn't come with its own power supply, so you'll either have to use two 9-volt batteries, two ac wall adapters (preferably regulated ones), or ideally a regulated power supply kit (also sold on the same website).

Another advantage with such a kit, and one I really liked, is that for b&o turntables, you can put the circuit inside a nice looking aluminum enclosure, and put DIN plugs on it so you can plug the turntable in directly without any adapters.  I'll dig mine out and take a picture.

If you don't want to build your own, I'd recommend a pretty inexpensive one.  You likely won't get much better sound as you go up in price.  The sound may be a tad 'different', but that's not necessarily the same as 'better'.  This is a pretty common one in the US.

Art DJPre-II Riaa Premap

Although I'd recommend an inexpensive one, I'd still go with a basic brand though.  On that cheap black box one you don't know anything about the circuit or power supply.   You don't necessarily know for a branded one either, but I'd bet it's more likely to be designed correctly.

Austin

At Β£14.99 it's worth a try!

I use a similarly priced one and it's fine. Looks similar to the one on ebay but has no name to identify it. I have supplied similar to customers and nobody has ever complained.

Make sure that you maintain ground continuity between the deck and your amp or you will get mains humm!

This one is fantastic!!! (Not just because i'm selling itπŸ‘)

I'm sure it is!

And what about the solution Profitec TC400? It sounds good?

 

Thanks for your help! 

The Profitec TC400 is a good solution and not expensive. I think it also depends on the type of stylus that you use. I used the Profitec TC400 when I had a MMC4 stylus on my beogram, which sounded fine. Then I bought a new SMMC2 from Soundsmith and decided to go for a tube phono pre-amp. The SMMC2 sounded better, but in combination with Pro-Ject Tube amplifier, the difference was even bigger.

I have ordered a Cambridge audio RIIA. Costs around 60 Euro. Will arrive next week and then I can tell if it is any good. Not all cheaper ones I have checked has ground connection which I have found trouble with.

I've recently bought a Graham Slee Gram Amp Bridge.  Looks well made (In the UK too) nice little black aluminium box.  So far the sound is really good, really brings the base out compared to the cheaper one I was using.  Now just waiting for my SMMC2 that I ordered a month ago from SoundSmith!

 

Pete.

The QED Discsaver is a good cheap option.  Use it on battery though.

Location: Australia

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