Gold Note PH-5
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Gold Note PH-5
Gold Note PH-5
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PH-5

PH-5 is a new generation phono stage and has all you need to have the best vinyl experience ever: 1 stereo RCA input, 6 EQ curves (RIAA, DECCA-LONDON & AMERICAN COLUMBIA plus enhanced), MM and MC settings, and a large display that shows all the settings in real-time.

The PH-5 features a touchscreen display, a modern solution to change settings instantly, even while listening to music.

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THE HIGH-QUALITY OF GOLD NOTE’S PHONO STAGES HAS BECOME AFFORDABLE

The PH-5 is the latest born at Gold Note’s range of phono stages, designed to deliver the same high quality and excellent performance that made the PH-10 and PH-1000 famous, with an affordable price and all the cutting-edge features that stands out our products. With a single RCA input, it can be connected to either MM or MC cartridges and offers an EQ curves selection (RIAA, Decca London and American Columbia, with Enhanced option), as well as the LOAD’s and GAIN’s adjustments to guarantee the utmost flexibility and versatility, making it perfect for every kind of analogue system.

ANALOGUE HEART, DIGITAL INTERFACE

The PH-5 is the first Gold Note product designed with a touchscreen interface: all the settings are easily accessible and changeable thanks to the innovative and unparalleled user-friendly display that allows you to select and manage all the options in real time while playing your music. The phono stage is based on a completely new design to integrate the whole electronics into a single board.
The digital interface is combined with a full analogue heart: indeed, the signal path is made through discrete audio-grade components and sealed single switches and it’s optimized to shorten the distance and minimize possible interference. Every setting selected through the touchscreen is applied to the audio signal switching its path through the usage of relé. The PH-5 features an “analogue purity” able to deliver superior audio quality and extract even the finest details from the vinyl record.

TO EACH RECORD ITS OWN EQ CURVE

The PH-5 allows a selection of the most appropriate equalization curve for each vinyl record, directly on the touch display: RIAA, DECCA LONDON, and AMERICAN COLUMBIA. Thanks to our proprietary technology inspired by Georg Neumann (the producer of the famous Neumann Disc Cutting Lathe ), each curve can be “Enhanced” to extend the frequency response up to 50kHz, improving even further the stage, dynamics, and resolution when required.

DEDICATED EXTERNAL POWER SUPPLY

To maximize the performance of the PH-5 we also developed the dedicated, external super inductive power supply that allows the phono stage to achieve its fullest potential, reaching an even higher degree of musical realism, better dynamics, and greater three-dimensionality sound.

Specification

ANALOGUE INPUTSOne RCA for MM/MC
ANALOGUE OUTPUTSStereo unbalanced RCA and balanced XLR
OUTPUT IMPEDANCE50Ω
SUBSONIC FILTER10Hz/36dB octave
TOTAL HARMONIC DISTORTION THD<0.05% @ 1kHz
SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO-89dB
DYNAMIC RESPONSE105dB
FREQUENCY RESPONSE20Hz – 20KHz

[Enhanced 20Hz – 50KHz] @ +/- 0.3dB

LINE OUTPUTS LEVEL (FIXED)Stereo RCA @ 2V and balanced XLR @4V
INPUT CAPACITANCE MM220pF
INPUT SENSITIVITY0.1mV MC up to 10.0mV MM
INPUT IMPEDANCE9 options [10Ω, 22Ω, 47Ω, 100Ω, 220Ω, 470Ω, 1000Ω, 22KΩ, 47KΩ]
GAIN40dB MM to 60dB MC with 4 options [0dB, + 3dB, ± 6dB]
POWER SUPPLY100-120V / 220-240V, 50/60Hz

Power consumption: 10W 

Standby consumption: < 0,5W

Fuse 0,5A F

DIMENSIONS200mm W 80mm H 260mm D
WEIGHT1.2Kg net

2.2Kg boxed

FINISHESBlack

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