Whest Audio PS-30r Astounding Clarity, new Board!

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'The most tonally accurate phonostage I have listened to and the most dynamic and musical' - audiokarma

Offers much of the peformance of the Reference Whest MC REF V at a fraction of the price!

 

Whest PS.30r Solid State Phone Preamp, Customer trade, with brand new board* installed by Whest. 9/10 condition, 90 day warranty

Sell for $1,890.

*New Board - This unit had a hum issue and was sent back to Whest where they replaced the entire old board with one from their new board manufacturer (as of March 2016). These have proven to sound audibly better, are substantially quieter and 100% reliable!

Audio Revelation is pleased to be offering the exciting lineup of phono stages from Whest Audio!  Please click here to view all the terrific phono stages we offer.

TESTIMONIALS (for all Whest products)

"The inclusion of the PS.30R in my system could truly be a game ender for me for a very long time. With it, every aspect of music reproduction---from the tightness and speed of the bass, to the clarity and neutrality of the midrange, to the sweetness of the highs have been presented to my liking. But more than that, the PS.30R is the most tonally accurate phonostage I have listened to and the most dynamic and musical, not to mention that it is very fast and quiet. In other words, it excels in all departments and gives out music that I can very well enjoy in the years to come."
 - Rhett Caesar L. Piczon, audiokarma.org (read the review)

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)

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

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 Phono Preamplifier - 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

"Whest PS.30R Phono Preamplifier- 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

Based entirely on the Whest Audio MC REF V platform, the new Whest PS.30R Phono Preamplifier is set to become the NEW STANDARD in the sub-$4000 category.  Imagine the resolution power of an $8,000 phonostage in a $3100 age.  This is what the design criterion was for the design engineering team at Whest Audio.  The only way to achieve this type of performance was to scale down a true reference, so the MC REF V was used as the platform.

Whest Audio Ltd is one of the world's leading manufacturers and designers of premium quality audio signal solutions including Phono Stages, Amplifiers and Discrete Analogue Processors.

TECHNICAL

Whest PS.30R Phono Preamplifier

Where the MC REF V uses what the design team call a 'buried discrete' differential input stage to achieve its ultra low noise 1.2nV sqHz input stage noise level, the Whest PS.30R Phono Preamplifier uses an ultra low noise bipolar matched input stage to achieve its vanishingly low 1.0nV sqHz input stage noise level.  This means that even using an MC cartridge like the Audionote Kondo IO-J with its ultra low output level of just 0.15mV, is no problem for the PS.30R.  At 72dB you'll have all the gain you need with absolutely no noise.

The hybrid passive/active RIAA filter has been lifted directly from the MC REF V and used for its accuracy and, more importantly, its transparency.  The output stage in the Whest PS.30R Phono Preamplifier was developed for the MC REF V and is used in its fullest glory in the PS.30R to bring unprecedented levels of detail from the lowest harmonics to the highest levels of the frequency band.  And because the output stage is totally discrete in design with an output impedance of only 50ohms at 1Khz driving a 600ohm load, it has no problem in driving long lengths of interconnects even if they are of relatively high capacitance!

The PS.30R also sports a true balanced output which is a first for a phonostage at this price point!  If you run either a fully balanced audio system or broadcast studio you won't be left in the dark.

And finally, you get all the quality you expect from a Reference Whest Audio product at a non-Reference price!   Because we wanted to make absolutely sure the audio quality from this product should match or better anything in the $4,000 price bracket the PS.30R employs Vishay metal film audio specification resistors, EVOX RIFA and Vishay polypropylene film capacitors, in-house hand selected and matched transistors, Panasonic low ESR and low impedance power supply filter capacitors, ultra low ts time rectifier diodes, low noise voltage regulators, ... and the list goes on and on and on.  Oh, and its hand built and assembled in the UK!

Transferring your collection to digital?  Do remember that the quality of your transfer is directly related to the quality of your turntable/ arm/ cartridge/ phonostage setup.  Rubbish in - Rubbish out really does apply here.   The whole range of Whest Audio phonostages are used by archiving libraries throughout the world because of their superb audio performance and ultra low noise levels which is essential when converting to digital.

SPECIFICATIONS

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  Model No.: PS.30R


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  RIAA curve accuracy: 18Hz - 22Khz +/- 0.2dB


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  Frequency response: 5Hz - 65Khz -10dB /- 1.0dB


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  Working band: 15Hz - 85Khz


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  THD+N: 0.006%


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  MM Gain 40dB


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  MC gain 50dB-72dB internally adjustable 6 steps.


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  Input Impedance: 50ohm - 47Kohm in 6 steps


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  Connections: Silver Unbalanced RCA, Neutrik XLR
  impedance balanced


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  Connectors: Silver Audiophile


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  Unpacked weight: 10 lbs


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  Packed weight: 13lbs


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  Dimensions: 17" x 11.5" x 3"
  19.25" x 13.75" x 6" shipping


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  Operating voltage: 115VAC 60Hz or 230VAC 50Hz
  

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