BENZ MICRO LUKASCHECK PP1 - Swiss Made MC Phono Preamp - NEW!

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BENZ MICRO – SWISS MADE HIGH-END CARTRIDGES

Founded by original designer Ernst Benz in the 1980s, Benz Micro earned recognition throughout the world as one the top cartridge manufacturing companies. In 1994 Albert Lukaschek took over and after 20 years, Benz Micro announced their focus on the upper end Swiss hand-made phono cartridges.

Benz Micro’s current production team represents the ” best of the best ” for it’s state-of-the-art phono cartridge production.

BENZ MICRO LUKASCHECK PP1 MC TRANSFORMER (with RIAA Equalizer)

The small size of the PP-1 allows close placement to the turntable, minimising signal leads from the tonearm. The whole power supply is inboard the PP-1 chassis except for an external power transformer, which is outboard to eliminate magnetic field interaction. The miniature size of the PP-1 allows all circuit components to be very close to one another. This significantly reduces circuit board traces, which could introduce noise and sonic degradation. The PP-1 is optimised for moving coil amplification, thus does not provide switches and or jumpers for gain setting or resistive loading. This elimination of unneeded circuit junction points preserves the low noise/high performance characteristics of this superb phono preamp.

By using only 2 transistors in each amplifier stage, perfect stability and extreme fast transient response is achieved. This provides the high degree of transparency and accuracy of the PP-1. High quality double-sided glass epoxy circuit boards with carefully designed topology (CAD) have been applied in order to ensure shortest possible signal paths. Low noise matched bipolar transistors were selected for this purpose. All resistors are high quality metal film with 1% tolerance. Within the RIAA network, only 1% polystyrene capacitors have been used, with high quality metalized plastic-film capacitors in the coupling function.

This stage is also individually regulated with discrete transistors in a constant-load configuration. Lukaschek finds this new regulator, in conjunction with his polarity inverting RIAA filter, yields reduced distortion and a more exact implementation of the RIAA equalisation curves. The increased resolution afforded by these improvements exposed previously audible artifacts due to circuit board layout. Lukaschek then spent a number of months optimising component placement and circuit-board trace layout, before the final revision was complete.

IMPROVEMENTS

Slightly warmer tonal balance

More resolution and extension

Bass is bigger and more solid; highs are effortless, open, transparent and totally devoid of smearing.

Focus, soundstage, depth and dimensionality improvements

Specifications:

RIAA equalization: +/- 0.5dB

Integrated rumble filter: 10Hz (-1dB at 20Hz)

Gain at 1kHz: 1280 (62dB)

Crosstalk: below measuring range

Signal/noise ratio (0.5mV 0 ohm): 82dB (IHF “A”)

Maximum input voltage: 5mV (1kHz)

Input Impedance: 22k ohms