Also called a phono stage, this component is essential for the playback of vinyl records. It raises your turntable's audio output to make it compatible with line-level amplifiers and delivers a sound ...

All four of What Hi-Fi?’s budget amplifier recommendations – the Rotel A8, Marantz PM6007, Rega io and Cambridge Audio AXA35 – integrate phono stages, for example. It’s certainly something ...

The ZEN Phono 3 is a DAC too, but it's a phono stage made with vinyl in mind and targets one common source of audio irritation: warping. Warped records can produce a low-end rumble, and filtering ...