Following up on the success of the SPA-II comes the "baby" one box SPA-One.12/2013: Jeff Day has just given the New Valve Order SPA one Phono Equalizer a Positive Feedback Online Writers' Choice Award for being among the very best of what is being offered in high-performance audio today.
Read about it here:
http://www.positive-feedback.com/Issue70/2013_awards.htm Currently there is a 8 week back-order for this outstanding phono unit.....but well worth the wait. Here's some 1st comments from Jeff Day's Blog Today’s Fresh Catch: The New Valve Order ‘SPA one’ Phono Equalizer
http://jeffsplace.me/wordpress/?p=3066 Another new review just out: http://parttimeaudiophile.com/2013/07/23/review-nvo-spa-one-phono-preamplifier/ 9-1-13 Full review in Positive Feedback:
http://www.positive-feedback.com/Issue69/nvo_phono.htm From the above review here's Summing Up "The SPA one is all about feeling the music and the experiencing the emotions the musicians intended to convey in the music. When I listened to music with the SPA one—any music—I got the feelings the musicians intended to convey through it. This is one of the SPA one's great strengths as a musical device, it allowed my emotions to come alive through the music. The SPA one is the most musically satisfying phono equalizer I have ever listened to, bar none...."
Created by Andreas Hadjiminas from Cyprus the SPA-II has sold over 60 units to date. Andreas has been working on a one box design that has over 90% of the qualities of the SPA-II but at a lesser price and after more than a year's tweaking has finally come out with the SPA-One.
Panikos the world-wide distributor (who also has a hand in hand assembling the units) says this: “Although a simplified version of the SPA-II, the SPA one shares most of the SPA-II’s musicality, low noise, and low distortion.”
SPA one Specifications:
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gain MC: 59dB
gain MM:45dB
frequency response: 20Hz – 200kHz within 0.5dB of RIAA curve
total harmonic distortion: less than 0.05% in MC mode less than 0.005% in MM mode
signal to noise ratio: better than -60db @ 0.3mV MC input better than -80db @ 2mV MM input
minimum recommended input for MC: 0.2mV The SPA-One uses 13 tubes and is a MM/MC design that uses RCA plugs to adjust loading if desired. The retail price of the SPA-One has just been set at $4250 but we will offering them direct at $3850. Personally we have already sold over 19 SPA-II units and they have been compared to units that cost 3-8 times the asking price and have always come out on top, per customers replies. (See reviews on Audiogon at http://forum.audiogon.com/cgi-bin/frr.pl?rprea&1330286889&&&/New-Valve-Order-SPA-II-Tube-preamp) Call 603-888-5104 to dicuss options.
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