Musical Fidelity V90-LPS User Manual

V90-LPS Phono Stage

High Performance Phono

The V90-LPS is a modestly priced, very high performance MM/MC phono stage with superb technical per formance.

In our opinion, there are ve critical

areas where a phono stage must achieve excellence:

1. RIAA correction

2. Correction above 20 kHz

3. Low distortion

4. Low noise

5. Good overload margin

The V90 -LPS has extremely accurate RIAA correction and that extends up to 80 kHz and beyond. That may sound extreme, but there is a good deal of information above 20 kHz that needs correction. If it isn’t corrected, it will show itself as ringing and overshoot.

The V90 -LPS’s distortion is very low. Noise ratio is extremely low and all but inaudible.

Overload margin is easily adequate for any current cartridge.

All in all, the V90-LPS accomplishes everything necessary for a phono stage.

There are many phono stages that are far more expensive and make extraordinar y claims for their performance. In contrast, the modest V90-LPS just gets on with the job of doing everything you could reasonably expect from a phono stage.

If you want top notch performance, and don’t care about the alleged conferred status of buying a highpriced product that offers no better performance than the V90-LPS, then we are of a like mind.

V90-LPS In Brief

• Switchable MM / MC input

• E xtremely accurate RIAA extending out to at least 60kHz

• Ver y low noise (virtually inaudible)

• Ver y low distortion

• E xcellent overload margin

• E xcellent channel separation

• Beautiful, considered build quality

V90-LPS PHONO STAGE

SPECIFICATION

Performance

Input impedance: 47kOhm (MM), 100Ohm (MC)

Input sensitivity: 3.0mV (MM), 400µV (MC) - for 30 0mV out

Total harmonic distor tion: 0.01% (MM/MC) - @ 1kHz, 300mV out

Frequency Response: +0, – 0.1dB, 20Hz to 20 kHz

Signal / Noise ratio (A weighted): >80dB (MM), >70 d B (M C)

Input overload margin: 15dB (MM), 22dB (MC)

RIAA response: +/- 0.25dB

Inputs

MM: 1 pair RCA sockets

MC: 1 pair RCA sockets

Outputs

1 pair RCA sockets

General

Dimensions - WxHxD (mm): 170 x 47 x 102

Weight (unpacked / packed): 60 0g / 1.1 kg

Supplied Accessories

1x 12v 500mA DC power supply