Phono preamplifiers come in all shapes and sizes, but if you're serious, you'll probably end up with a full-width component that needs its own shelf in the rack, rather than some dinky device that sits alongside the turntable. If you're taking the plunge and going for a tube design, the probability becomes almost a certainty. But while there are plenty of phono stages as big as Canor's TP306 VR+, there can't be many that are as heavy. When you take delivery of this 12kg-plus package, you could be forgiven for thinking that they've sent you an integrated amplifier by mistake. Once it's out of the box, though, you realise that among its many modern virtues, the Canor has the old-fashioned one of being very strongly built.
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