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WHEST THREE Signature - Every Customer That Tries Whest Loves the Sound & Value! (really true) You Will Too!

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Ships fromCarlsbad, CA, 92010
Ships toUnited States
Package dimensions24.0" × 18.0" × 10.0" (22.0 lbs.)
Shipping carrierunspecified
Shipping costFree
Original accessoriesBox, Manual
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Testimonials (on all Whest phono preamps)


Awarded 5 out of 5 Globes

"Whest PS.30RDT SE is an excellent phono stage that offers that offers the insight and low level detailing that only a good transistor design can, yet is more fluid and organic sounding than it had a right to be. Properly matched to a top quality cartridge, this in one of the best phono stages you’ll find. It unlocks the music in your record grooves in a genuinely special way, one which keeps you coming back for more."

Conclusion: "Powerful, dramatic and forsensically detailed phono stage that’s never less than a gripping listen"
- HiFi World

"Initial impressions (or the PS.30RDT SE) are of a great solidity to the image with instruments clearly presented in space with stunning depth and breadth. This phono stage really rocks and there is a propulsive quality to the sound allied to great delicacy and detail retrieval. So far, I am very impressed at the overall improvement from the standard PS.30RDT"
- Snoopdog, theartofsound.net (read the blog)

Awarded 5 Globes - HiFi World

"Strong, sumptuous bass, capacious midband, sweet treble, rhythmically engaging, flexible (settings) with balanced or single ended operation... a brilliant, all-round design, the Whest PS.30RDT offers most of what anyone would need."
- David Price, HiFI World

Winner - Stereo Time Most Wanted Components

Whest’s dual-mono PS.30RDT phono preamp is an excellent, low noise solid-state phono stage that has a wide range of user-adjustable gain and load settings... I found the unit to be extremely dynamic and detailed while presenting superbly stable instrumental images within a very deep soundstage.
- Stereotimes.com

"The Whest PS.30RDT is an extraordinary phono preamplifier by any yardstick. It is a grainless, noiseless piece of gear that provides all the dynamic shadings, vivid imagery, and fine detailing that allows reproduced music to sound real... As for me, I may need to purchase the PS.30RDT, because now that I’ve lived with it there’s no going back."
- Frank Alles, Stereotimes, (read the review)

"On the WhestTWO, I listened to the Ortofon Venice, the Ortofon Rondo Bronze, Decca (The Cartidge Man), Van den Hul Grasshopper III GMA and the Rokson Shiraz. What was noticeable with all of these was the excellent channel separation, giving a wide clearly defined soundstage. Individual sound events are correctly contoured and powerfully drawn, and the imagery has exquisite richness of color...

And now to the Whest PS.30R - very much the bigger brother. It gives you more of everything, by the bucket load, and with this performance, can claim to be one of the best phono stages on the market ... Soundstaging is beautifully three-dimensional and solid. The dynamics are stunningly transient and fine dynamics are elegant and accurate.

Both Whest phono amplifiers are thoroughly convincing. They offer extraordinarily good tonality, high flexibility and very fair pricing. A must-hear!"
- Helmut Rohrwild, Hifi and Records Magazine

"This phono preamp is an audiophile delight. Highs are pristine with very good extension and clarity. Midrange is clean and unembellished. Good, taut bass. Soundstages are recreated with well defined width, depth and height extending beyond the physical boundaries of the speakers. Imaging is pin-point accurate. Lightning fast transient response and iron fisted control creates explosive dynamics. Music emerges from an inky blackness. High transparency and detail means nothing is hidden from the WhestTWO."
- AudioNZ, New Zealand High End Magazine

"The whestTWO... forms part of ’BEST VALUE SYSTEM AT SHOW"
- New York HiFi Show


Overview


 

The much awaited whestTHREE Signature is now available for shipment. The whestTHREE Signature is quite a departure from what currently exists in the Whest Audio range of phono stages.

High resolution Moving coils

Like all of the Whest Audio designs, the whestTHREE Signature has been designed for use primarily for MC (moving coil) use. This means that to obtain the lowest possible noise levels and highest resolution, we recommend the use of low to medium output MC cartridges.

During the development of the whestTHREE Signature we used:
Ortofon MC ANNA (0.20mV), Denon DL 304 (0.18mv), EMT JSD6 (0.18mv), Lyra Delos (0.6mV) and the Dynavector XV1-T (0.35mV) for much of the listening tests and noise measurements.

High performance MM use

Because of the ’impressive’ neutrality of the whestTHREE Signature in MC mode, we know that absolutely ANY high-end high performance MC cartridge can be used. For MM (moving magnet) use, the input capacitance has been trimmed to give the flatest response curve for many of the new breed of high-performance moving magnets and moving irons on the market today. In MM mode the whestTHREE signature will easily ’see off’ the competition even if the competition is running a 1500 EUR MC cartridge. This is because apart from the trimmed input stage, the whestTHREE Signature also employs an ’elevated power rail’ section unseen in a phono stage in this price range. This gives a greater dynamic performance as well as lower noise specs for ’earth shattering’ micro detail resolving power. Given a great MM cartridge, in MM mode the whestTHREE is spectacular.

For listening in MM mode we used the Ortofon 2M Black, Goldring 2500, Grado Reference 1 Phono and Audio Technica AT440 MLA, Rega Exact and the 2014 Roksan Corus Silver.

Class-A output stage

Like all Whest Audio phono stages, the whestTHREE also employs a fully discrete Class-A high output current output stage. This coupled with the omission of an output capacitor means that the output from the unit is directly coupled to the following preamplifier. Even the very best ’audiophile grade’ output capacitor would degrade the performance of whestTHREE output quality which is why the design ensures a far higher level of performance than what is normally expected at this price level.

Balanced outputs

The whestTHREE Signature comes as standard fitted with true balanced outputs which are fed from the output of the Class-A stage. While most manufacturers are content with using a 2.00 EUR IC chip to perform the balancing process and degrading the signal further, the whestTHREE Signature processes the signal exactly like many high-end microphones and mixing desks.....this means a perfect balanced feed if you are using long signal lines.

Loading options

The whestTHREE Signature is equipped with 8 resistive load and 8 gain options for maximum flexibility with the wide range of cartridges available today.

The resistive load options are 100, 220, 330, 470, 1k6, 15k and 47k ohms. Combinations may be made-up by adding values together. This is simply acheived by switching ’on’ any 2 load values.

MM gain is covered by 42dB and 46dB. High output MC is covered by 50dB, 53dB and 56dB while the low output MC sets are 60dB, 65dB and 72dB.

The standard ’shipped’ setup is 65dB/100ohms which will suite 95% of MC cartridges today. For the other 5% it is just a matter of removing 2 small M3 screws under the head unit which will give you full access to both channels load and gain switches.

HVDM power supply

A new bespoke external power unit has be designed specifically for the whestTHREE signature. The HVDM (high voltage dual-mono) power supply utilises a ’whest designed’ extremely low mechanical noise high current toroid transformer. Unlike most other manufacturers today who use ’off-the-shelf’ transformers to save on cost which also has a negative impact on audio quality, the HVDMs transformer has been designed for low noise and low signal level use. Low mechanical noise means less noise on the power rails and with ’specific secondary outputs’ means the all important audio circuits in the whestTHREE Signature sees only what it ’needs’ to see.

Cabling

To connect the whestTHREE Signature to the HVDM power supply, Whest Audio had designed 2 special XLR cables capable of handling currents far higher that what is required for the whestTHREE Signature head unit. The whestTHREE Signature comes with its own RCA-RCA 1.2m OFC Audiophile interconnect and 3.5mm Jack to RCA interconnects for connecting to your audio system and connecting to your computer system for high resolution transfers.

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