Graham Slee Accession Moving Coil Phono Stage (Including PSU1)

Graham Slee Accession Moving Coil Phono Stage 

The Graham Slee Accession MC is a moving coil phono stage with a built-in volume control which enables the MC users to enjoy every single benefit of the MM Accension's equalisation system. Up until now, the Accession phono stage preamp was only available for MM and other high output magnetic cartridges. A manual volume control active on the variable "var" outputs which can be used if the Accession MC is to drive a power amp directly.

Required power amp input sensitivity will depend on the cartridge output, but a 0.3mV cartridge will cause around 350mV at the variable outputs. Also, note this volume control can go fully clockwise without adding distortion to the Accession MC outputs. It is well known that low output moving coil can sound overly bright. It is not that the technology of the cartridge itself is overly bright although there is evidence that cantilever resonance can influence how it sounds at high frequencies. The problem is in the handling and amplification of its signal. With such a low output it is competing with electronic noise for its existence. Interference dwarfs it, and it requires such an incredible amount of gain to bring it up to line-level.

Who is Graham Slee?

Graham Slee is a small, enthusiastic manufacturer of realistically priced, high-performance phono stages and headphone amplifiers, designed and built by hand in Yorkshire since 2003. Very positively reviewed by the UK and international magazines, demand for these products has been overwhelming as the world's hifi enthusiasts can't believe the performance on offer for the price asked.

Each unit is designed by owner/ engineer Graham Slee and then hand constructed by two skilled electronics engineers before being thoroughly tested to check it meets it's specification and is 100% reliable.