Top line phono stages with at least 2 inputs

03-22-09: Lewm
Swampwalker, Just wanted to be certain I understood you. Did you mean to say that Albert is auditioning the Allnic product(s)? Thanks.
Lewm (Threads | Answers)

The answer is yes. I have the H-3000 phono stage and L-4000 line stage. Last week I had both of the Allnic units, the Einstein The Tube and the Einstein balanced phono.

I also still have Aesthetix Eclipse Io and Callisto. It will take time to sort this out, I'll be posting on my system thread as I learn more.

TW Acustic Phono stage - I am with Dgad on this one.

new model has about 64db of gain.

Allnic seems interesting, some years ago I had Silvaweld Phonostage, that was was a good one. I've heard, the Designer is working for Allnic now.

There are certainly a lot more phono stages with more than one input than I envisaged. The allnic seems to be getting alot of opinion i.e. raves and some not so impressed.
Thank you all for the input so far.
Any comments on the strengths of Allnic vs Steelhead vs Dartzeel vs TW Acustik?

My current phonostage is the Sutherland Phd which has as its most outstanding virtue ,it's quiet background. How do the abovementioned rate in terms of a quiet background and microdetail retrieval?

Thanks again

Syntax, From my readings and conversation with a dealer, the Allnic line is indeed produced and designed by the very same guy who was the Silvaweld designer. I think in the former case, he had a business partner who is now out of the picture. The products and all relevant parts (e.g., inductors, transformers) are hand-made in-house (in S Korea). The amorphous core nickel transformers would seem to have a lot of potential to dispel my own bias against SUTs in general.
Ecka, I did not see any negative comments about the Allnic stuff in this thread. It will be interesting to know Albert's opinion.