Musical Fidelity V90-LPS

Compact and versatile, MC and MM capable with audiophile grade sound. Performs well beyond its price point.
From their website:

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

In our opinion, there are five 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 extraordinary 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 high-priced 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
• Extremely accurate RIAA extending out to at least 60kHz
• Very low noise (virtually inaudible)
• Very low distortion
• Excellent overload margin
• Excellent channel separation
• Beautiful, considered build quality

Performance

• Input impedance: 47kOhm (MM), 100Ohm (MC)
• Input sensitivity: 3.0mV (MM), 400μV (MC) - for 300mV out
• Total harmonic distortion: 0.01% (MM/MC) - @ 1kHz, 300mV out
• Frequency Response: +0, –0.1dB, 20Hz to 20 kHz
• Signal / Noise ratio (A weighted): >80dB (MM), >70dB (MC)
• 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): 600g / 1.1 kg
• Supplied Accessories
• 1x 12v 500mA DC power supply