Dinky little 2-valve Chinese pre-amp

[Mark Hennessy]

OK, so the cartridges are switched by a relay, with just additional transistors for muting. No preamp. I would assume that these are magnetic cartridges, given the general level of sophistication, so he's going to need a phono preamp that takes the nominal 5mV from the deck and lifts it up to around a volt, applying RIAA correction on the way.

This preamp won't do that.

I'm not really clear exactly what this preamp will do, frankly. It's an ornament. Nothing wrong with that - it's very pretty. I wouldn't put any of my audio through it though.