Wyred 4 Sound PH-1 Phono-Stage

Product Overview

Wyred 4 Sound has never been one to rest on our laurels, nor shy away from shaking things up. As we were developing our award winning, industry leading 10th Anniversary DAC, we had also been quietly working on another ground breaking - and perhaps unexpected - product for some time.

We've always wanted to build an affordable, amazing sounding phono stage, and in fact have wholly or partly developed several phono stages over the years but were never brought to market. When we released the SST Thoebe II preamplifier, reviewers were bowled over by its incredible performance, in particular its phono stage. It was this development that finally provided us the motivation, inspiration and foundation to build the first ever product.

Design Philosophy

A great phono stage has many features, but perhaps the most important feature is one that it should lack - noise! From the outset, our goal was to make this one of the absolute lowest noise phono stages available. Looking at the specs we think you'll agree, it addresses this critical issue shockingly well.

While eliminating noise is critical to allow for sonics to emerge as transparently and dynamically as intended, it's the rest of the circuit and build design that contribute to the magic. Based on years of research and refinement, plus our own development of the Thoebe II phono stage, this product shines as one of the finest phono stages available to todays audiophile. And of course in the Wyred 4 Sound tradition, the performance far surpasses what its low price would suggest.