AVID Listening: Why the Pellar is a Great New Phono Stage for Aspiring Analogue Addicts 

I'm another viewer who loves phonostage reviews and the language employed to describe what they do and do not do. Like to say no vinyl was harmed in the making of this video...

Creek comes to my mind automatically when I think of phono stages.

Oh boy, this David Sylvian album is crazy good on every level, with Holger Czukay from CAN making these bakground noise, short waves radio samples, etc, etc. I can't help but play this record for those who don't know David Sylvian universe. The more time fly the better it seems to get. I'd love to try this phono stage for sure. Great review guys!

Great review- I hope you guys review more phono stages and possibly step ups as they are critical for us vinyl fanatics!

I’ve had my Pellar for about 4 months now. Upgraded my tt and cartridge from an mm to an mc. Was concerned how the Pellar would handle it. There was no need - it sounds amazing and scaled up really, really well. I’d highly recommend this phono stage.

Very good as usual. You should do a riff on inner sleaves 😅

Radium was once used to make watches luminous, now replaced by less hazardous tritium. Another informative and highly entertaining riff chaps 👍 Good to talk to you Mike in the corridor at the Heathrow show. We discussed the new £8k ls 3/5a’s and Dave’s extravagant car purchase to get him home from the north of England! 😂

14:32….that noise was fun

Wow - 'You'll struggle to get as good an all-rounder at the price'... 'Best phono stage under £1,000' 9/10 -- love it guys, great review!

Hey fellas. I’ve really enjoyed your recent riffs… that calculator amp (can’t remember the name) was intriguing. You said there weren’t any phono stages around in the 80’s but I have a Lentek phono stage from I think 70’s-80’s. I assumed you would have heard of or even had one yourselves? I recently bought a Rega Fono something or other phono stage for around £110 to connect my LP12 and Willsenton R8. MM only but really excellent little device that to my ears is totally neutral. Anyway… keep up the good work 🎶🎵👊🏻

UB40 Present Arms album 💿 is magnificent too.

I use the Arcam Rphono myself and think it's a very good phono stage. Especially as I purchased it second hand at £200. Duran Duran - Notorious. Fantastic album (not that I'm biased Duranie or anything). Power Station and Arcadia were before this.

"Have a sniff of that".Another episode of Are you being served?😊

I watch Riff for the banter as much as the reviews. No car analogies tonight?

It’s great to hear what phono stages you think is good , I’ve the tricord phono and power supply

I'm still recovering from the B and W speaker review. But they do make a cute couple don't they

It wasn't easy in the 80's to get a phono stage but one option and the first I bought was the Hart of Oswestry, Shropshire K1500 kit based on the Linsley Hood design but you had to soldier it (or buy pints for someone that could!) They certainly can make a huge difference as I found running the Pro-ject dsc3b here outdoing a Rotel seperate one from the early 90's.

Don’t take it personally but if David ever sells any records on Ebay - count me out 😂

Chaps, it's good to see you do your usual thing! An entertaining video for sure! Even if the quality of semiconductors has improved considerably in the last few decades, very few manufacturers seem to care about integrating a really great phono stage into their preamps and integrated amplifiers. So, the Avid is a compelling proposition. Still, there are a few makes that still do a fanstastic job integrating really great phono stages in their amplifiers. However, they are few and far in between. Regarding the luminous record, if it glows in pitch black darkness without first being exposed to a light source, then it is indeed radioactive! The actual paint was known under many names but in all instances, it was a mixture of radium (a radio isotope) and phosphor. Radium itself doesn't glow but it does provide the phosphor with what it needs to glow - energy. Apart from toxicity, the mixture is rather frail and tends to disintegrate with age. Needless to say, inhaling the dust or leaving it on your fingers is not a good thing. The 'insidious' thing about it is that the radiating energy from the radium actually breaks down the phosphor. To put it simply, it can still be highly radioactive and not glow at all! I'd try to find out as much as possible about the record. It'd be really ridiculous if the record was radioactive but you never know. During the Cold War, they would paint the insides of armoured vehicles, tanks, bunkers and even civilian nuclear shelters. In the end, the occupants didn't fall ill from the H-bombs, they were poisoned by the paint! Ain't that a cheerful comment!! Cheers!

Great show guys

It's all well and good all this hi fi chat but what about the regular update on David's cars!

The question nobody's asked; what's a "Pellar". Seems its a word possibly of Cornish origin for a white wizard, a healer, diviner, exorcist and breaker of spells. Inspired choice!

What do y’all think about what the “Wally Tools” guy saying that the vast number of carts he tested were 7%-9% out of optimum VTA specs? Surely if true that would be the most important thing to correct at the TT end of the chain. Cheers Big Ears😊

I have known people who spent too much on the cartridge & used a cheap turntable. Hi FI Answers had a reviewer who did the opposite & ran an A&R C77 / LVII / LP12.......😄

Really nice

Evening gents👍👍

Happy Thursday all 🥃🥂🎶

Mike, how would this compare to the internal phono stage of the Nait 1?

I don’t have a separate phono stage. I can’t afford anything in this price range so what would be a good starter point? I do have a load of original Kraftwerk albums which I treasure …….Davis Sylvian maybe just one.

Perhaps you can do a spin off channel called Sniffing Vinyl…

Yes album 1st uk press not green/orange but plum! Which is substantially better imo than later presses suchvas yours

Those record outer sleeves look like the hard pvc type that gives off fumes that damage your records.

Mr Price! What was going on with those inner sleeves?! 😱😹

I'm sure some clicks and pops are from dryed saliva deposits avoided by not speaking over the vinyl.

You could build a completely neutral, transparaent phono stage for about 30 quid. Circuits don't come much simpler.

Why do you think moving coil is superior to moving iron? it's not iron is much better than moving coil try an Nagoka MP 500.