Late to this thread, but I thought I’d bump it along.
I own a D’Agostino phono stage. Quite simply, it’s the best phono stage I’ve had in my system, though I’ve far from auditioned them all. It replaced a Pass XP-27 phono, itself no slouch.
The D’Ag phono is very, very low-noise, dynamic as all get out and it just has more juice, more saturation and vividness. There’s probably some system synergy at work with the rest of my D’Agostino electronics, as well.
I’m very pleased with the D’Agostino phono stage — it’s pretty much my end-game component as far as my analog front end is concerned.
Hope this helps.
Steve
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VPI HW-40 Anniversary DD turntable, Grado Aeon3; Taiko Audio Extreme server, dCS Vivaldi APEX DAC and Master Clock, Cybershaft OP-21 reference clock, Playback Designs Pinot ADC.
D’Agostino Momentum M400 amps, Momentum HD preamp, Momentum phono amp, Wilson Audio Alexx, 2X3 SVS SB16 Ultra subwoofer stacks.
Shunyata Triton v3 & Typhon QR, Typhon. Shunyata Sigma NR & NR v2 cords and cables, Stillpoints ESS grid system rack, Stillpoint Ultras, ASC Tube Traps . . . and lots of music!
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