Zesto vs K & K phono stages

I've only heard the original Zesto. It's noisy. Bass is not that great. It's ugly and the build quality is poor for a $4300 device. The Allnic is tiny, uses the same step up transformers as their much higher end phono stages, quality materials throughout, 4 MC settings compared to 2 with the Zesto. The Allnic is more lively and fun to listen to, the bass is incredibly good.

I've had both of these. Get the Allnic H1201 and save yourself some $. It's better sounding and better built than Zesto or K&K.

Mallen123 - the ground hum was pretty bad. I thought I had a defective unit, so I bought another one, and had the exact same issue. I even talked to George on the phone about the hum at the 55db MC setting and his response was "you should always switch it to 65db". I see in the v2 Andros the grounding scheme is different, which should tell you something.

And has someone else mentioned, you are not looking at the Allnic specs correctly in regards to gain.

For the record, I had what is probably the latest K&K design since I got it around 2011. I agree, Kevin is a real pleasure to work with and very responsive to questions.