Description
We spent a considerable amount of time developing the VP549. Hundreds of hours went into listening and improving the design. We hope you enjoy using the VP549, and that it makes listening to your vinyl collection rewarding. We sincerely appreciate the opportunity to build a product for you and participate in your love of quality music. We love what we do and weâre happy to help. All Bellari products are hand built in Salt Lake City, Utah by people who care about high quality music. I pose the question, âif a phono preamp has to follow the RIAA curve (encode/decode), then why donât they all sound similar?â To follow the RIAA equalization curve they have to reproduce the same frequencies at the proper amplitude or they simply do not follow the predetermined curve. OK, so why all the hype? Well, there could be several reasons, there are differences in types of parts. For instance, surface mount (SMT) parts are generally inferior to thru hole parts. If you look at the bank-account-draining preamps, they are constructed with a technology that has been around since the early 1970âs called âthru holeâ. It is called thru hole because all parts are connected to the PCB via the part passing thru holes on the PCB to the other side, and then soldered in place on both sides of the PCB. Surface mount (SMT) technology is better for high speed digital than analog audio. Also, attention to good audio engineering principles helps lower noise.