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What phono amplifier for Dutch 8c

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Hello to all, I just bought Dutch & Dutch 8C speakers. I still have many vinyl records and now I'm looking to buy phono preamp. What do you think about SPL Phonos? It has only RCA out or do I need phono with XLR out to connect it to Dutch 8C?
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Can you find a phono with XLR balanced outs ?
Keith
 
Is that required?

If you take a Parks Audio Waxwing RIAA ( Digital DSP based) you could run the SPDIF digital out to the digital input of the 8c with this.



That gives a single ADC conversion, and a perfect RIAA implementation.

I use Parks Audio Puffin with most of the Waxwing features, but no remote control.

It is a fantastic tool to tune the vinyl set up. Outputs for Waxwing is Analog RCA, digital toslink and digital SPDIF(RCA look alike) .

For other analog RIAA you could just buy a RCA to XLR cable .
 
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I can't recommend a phono preamp.

It has only RCA out or do I need phono with XLR out to connect it to Dutch 8C?

With an RCA-to-XLR adapter cable/adapter into a balanced input you get almost all of the noise immunity benefits of a fully-balanced connection. (It doesn't always work well the other way around.)

But a balanced XLR connections on both ends would be "nicer", "easier", and look better, etc. So if you can find a preamp with balanced outputs at a reasonable price, I'd go fully-balanced.

Or, I'd get the Waxwing which doesn't have balanced-outs but it has digital record-noise reduction. I've never seen (or heard) it but record noise is the biggest weakness with vinyl and personally, it's the main thing I dislike about it!

Or, since you probably have other audio sources, you might want a "traditional preamp" (a "hi-fi control center") that might have XLR outs (and may or may-not need an external phono preamp). Or there are some AVRs with XLR preamp outputs, which again may, or may-not have a built-in phono preamp.
 
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Schiit Skoll, but like others said Waxwing is propably the best choice. You can connect it directly with for example optical to AES.
 
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