G'day all, I'm having fun with this Rothwell 'Simplex' phono stage and the more I listen to it, the more I love it, and the more one becomes aware of 'little' things in playback.
For example, and I haven't yet worked out why, record noise, scratch and just pure and simple surface noise seem much less apparent with this phono stage.
This is not imaginary! Over the years I have heard phono stages where such record noise seemed very apparent indeed, mostly op amp designs, but not every op amp design I've listened to.
However this Rothwell 'Simplex' phono stage makes every record sound like it's just been washed/cleaned. Curious, but welcome! Regards, Felix.