Over the past 25 years or so I’ve had various Rothwell products and they are superb. Currently have monoblocks with Indus passive pre amp, phono stage and step up transformer. Very happy.
Well done Phill for championing the lesser known products the gems drowned out by the shouting mainstream look at look at me’s. The company’s that are creating something for the pleasure and sound quality where everything is there or possibly not for a reason
I'm so delighted you have reviewed this. I have the railto and a headspace 2. Had them for years and I have been telling everyone I could how brilliant they are. Plus when I needed to know something from Rothwell, I got a phone call from Mr Rothwell himself. I have to say the products are 1st class. I love your channel and have been watching you since you started and were getting 20 views! Please can you review the simplex and the headspace 2 as well. Many thanks Rico
The Rothwell River interconnects are superb and great value for money. I haven't got a Rothwell phono amp but they sound great when partnered with my Graham Slee phono amp and headphone amp.
Looks a great product and the ideas behind it make perfect sense. There is no need for impedance switches etc. I had an original Groove from Tom Evans and that didn’t have any impedance or capacitance switches for the same reason. They were eventually added, not sure if for technical or customer requests. I have the latest version of the Groove + and there is barely any audible difference when using the switches to change things so are, in my case, surplus to requirements. I would be interested to hear the Rothwell SUT. Cheers
I loved the Rothwell Simplex, but have just changed to a Spartan 15 by Michael Fidler. He’s another very good and fastidious engineer. I’d be interested on your option of these Philip.
Is it Rothwell who make the little Rca in line attenuators? Pretty sure I have a pair of those in a drawer somewhere. I agree that sometimes simplicity is best, and given that you only need to change settings on a phono stage when you change carts, it seems the right call. If you have multiple tables or like to swap carts regularly, there are plenty of other options available.
Hi Phill. Video idea. What would sound better. A MC into a Rothwell MCL step up then into the MM input on the Rothwell Rialto or MC cart into the Rialto MC input
there is a benefit of having a small box you can put it close to the turntable you want the rca lead as short as possible to the phono stage ideally under the foot, at 50 ohm cable double shielded microphone cable is ideal. or you could try blue jeans zero capacitance cable. it doesn't matter about the length coming from the phono stage that can be 5-10 m at 50 ohms.
Hi! I love your videos. I enjoy how low key you keep things. I have a Rega Planar 6 with the Apheta 2 MC cartridge, and a Fono MC preamp. I think you mentioned the Fono MM, but for what I have, would I be likely to hear a significant improvement if I replaced the Fono MC with this preamp?
Phil - you might have noticed some mentions of Michael Fidler's Classic Audio products such as Spartan 5, 15 etc. I don't know if you obtain these for customers but if you do could you be persuaded to review one of his stages?
I owned a step up transformer from Rothwell dropped cod in selling it on ,recently I tried to purchase another one but never got a reply to my request a bit sad really because the SUT I had was brilliant
he follows a similar ethic to Michael fidler at classic audio, but not as well engineered. you don't want to have moving coil and and moving magnet in the same amplifier stage it degrades the sound ads noise. they need to be separate. it's about the same price as the Spartan 15. you can easily change your settings anyway without using a switch by getting a y adaptor and another RCA jack putting a capacitor and resistor of the value you need in parallel usually 220 ohm resistor, you can make different types of plugs to suit your needs and countries. you can buy them already made.
Rothwell have been going for decades. I tried the Classic Audio mc phono stage and didn't think much of it. Boring mid-fi. The Rothwell Simplex and MCX SUT was much more enjoyable.
@@hoodoo-man yeah it might be more enjoyable but it's not as accurate probably why you found it boring, didn't suit your system. and depends what cartridge you're using with it can have a bearing. what cartridges did you try?
Keeping it simple. I'm sure there's plenty of armchair engineers who'll spout some ignorant opinions. The people who build equipment like this do know what they are doing.
Moving coils work with MM inputs.... A dedicated MC input is never questioned... It's a bit of a myth... Try ur MC in ur MM... Note cheap Wima caps..Easily bettered by Mundorf Evo Oils etc
