“Retro-EAR834p” - an EAR834p tube MM phono stage

This is the third of these MM phono stages I have built and all for commission jobs. As an addition here a MC step-up stage was also built. The MC stage is the La Pacific single FET, battery driven stage and is seperate from the MM stage. The PS is external and uses a Hammond tranni. The EAR kits come with a PS board with HT and filament DC rectification and filtering. The HT is smoothed by a high voltage power FET. Works well. 

Looks smart on the stippled Hammond wood cheek chassis. With Tung-Sol and LinLai tubes sounds detailed and transparent and the new owner reports excellent bass. We are both happy with the result.