Great phono pre

good point. thanks!

I all. I´ve just bought a very very fine phonostage even surpassing the nagra´s. It´s a very very hard to get (as the designer doesn´t really care about time and production issues) Omtec Antares CP-1i V5 phonostage. At a dealers show room it bests the Nagra BPM, the Whest as well as the Ayre P-5xe in most areas. No downsides.

T-bone/ Bombaywalla: as the owner is quite a "genious" he doesn´t spend to much time on updating his homepage or product litrature. The waiting list for the Antares CP-1i V4 is very very long - I know of people who were waiting 30 weeks for their Omtec Antares to come. Nevertheless: sonically I took a lot of time to compare my new (and not even broken in) Antares to Nagra VPA and Ayre P-5xe. The Omtec bettered the Ayre in every aspect (although I´m a big Ayre fan and I´m bias towards their products). The VPA is sonically on par but is twice the price of the Antares CP-1i V4.

I have uploaded a stock picture of the two box Antares phono pre (on my virtual systems site).