I guess you’re saying that the Aqvox provides for continuous adjustment of gain anywhere between some lower and upper limits. The BMC (as you likely know) has internal jumpers that allow for "low", "medium", and "high" gain. Those should be sufficient for most situations; you would choose your setting once, to match the particular cartridge you are mating to it, and then forgeddaboudit. I looked up the Nibiru, too. Although it accepts RCA connections for input and output, implying SE, one cannot be certain that the actual business is not done in the balanced mode; there is just no information provided, and the phono circuit is hidden from view by a copper shield. Anyway, I feel like we might be guilty of hi-jacking the thread, for which I apologize to the OP. Thanks for responding to my question about current drive in the first place. I am tempted to try one out in my system.
I read Fremer's reviews in the course of my recent research. He certainly did seem sincere in his praise for the MCCI, even in comparison to some very much more expensive units that he is known to adore. In his summation, it seemed he had to backtrack to come up with some reasons why the $30,000+ units he compared it to are a slight bit better than the MCCI. Surely, the MCCI had better measurements than the megabuck units. (As I recall, the Boulder 2008 is pretty noisy.)
I read Fremer's reviews in the course of my recent research. He certainly did seem sincere in his praise for the MCCI, even in comparison to some very much more expensive units that he is known to adore. In his summation, it seemed he had to backtrack to come up with some reasons why the $30,000+ units he compared it to are a slight bit better than the MCCI. Surely, the MCCI had better measurements than the megabuck units. (As I recall, the Boulder 2008 is pretty noisy.)