The HP is one of my favorite inboard phono stages, by the way.
2, the sweet and beautiful Allnic Audio H-5500 and even the HP phono card in the Jeff Rowland Design Group Capri S2 preamplifier that just came in last week. Let’s see, I have the massive and quiet two-chassis Pass Labs XP-27, the precise and ultra-revealing Brinkmann Edison Mk. II is a phono stage, but only because I’m swimming in phono preamps right now. It sounds like I’m saying it’s a bad thing that the Luminous Audio Technology Arion Mk. When the Arion landed on my front porch, I immediately unpacked it and discovered it was, indeed, a phono pre.
II version of the Luminous Audio Technology Arion, I quickly agreed-it’s fun to get stuff before anyone else. When Tim asked me if I wanted to spend some time with one of the first production units of the Mk. So I just had “preamp” on my mind the whole time. The second most affordable preamp on our list is several times the cost of the Axiom. It is by far the least expensive preamp listed in our Buyers Guide, and I feel its inclusion is important because affordable preamplifiers and line stages seem to be a shrinking market segment in high-end audio. That top of the line passive pre, with the “Walker mod,” is only $499. Why? I suppose it has to do with my experience with Tim and his company, which is limited to his passive pre, the Axiom III, and a single set of speaker cables that I reviewed last year. I’ve heard of the Luminous Audio Technology Arion in the past, but here’s a hint about how much I know-at first I assumed it was a preamplifier and not a phono preamplifier. He was referring to his Arion phono preamplifier, the original version which created a lot of buzz when it was released. “Did you ever hear one back in the day?” Tim Stinson of Luminous Audio Technology ( website) asked me.
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