This is a review and detailed measurements of the Chord Huei phono stage/pre-amplifier.
Despite all of the above, the
functional design of the Huei is a total fail! If you are familiar with Chord products you know that they use colored LEDs to communicate the status of some setting. That makes the device difficult to operate due to the need to then remember the color of the button meaning different things. Here, that design has been taken to level of insanity with many settings encoded into colors. Take the impedance settings for moving magnet mode. These are the color indicators:
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Are they crazy? Who the heck remembers these colors?
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