I am contemplating a NSC 222, but I listen a lot to vinyl and I have a MC cartridge and external phono stage.
Can the MM Phono input of a the 222 be switched off to accept a normal phono feed from my phono stage? Only reason for asking to keep the only other RCA inputs free!
Many thanks
Mike
Hi, its a phono input mm only and cannot be changed or bypassed; what you can do is use an external SUT for an mc cartridge.
You can switch it off, but you can’t turn it into a line input. I’ve just bought a Vertere Phono-1 mkII and am using the one RCA line input instead. A very considerable improvement on the built in one, and that’s just with a decent MM cartridge. (AT40VML)
You can plug your phono stage into the DIN input or the Line Level RCA input. Naim says the DIN input sounds better though and in my experience, I would agree with them. When I tried out an Aria I thought it sounded slightly better into the DIN. Now I am using an NVC I just went with what was recommended and used the DIN input.
I got this Ortofon ST-7 MC step up transformer from Japan.
The cartridge is a Linn Troika rebuilt by David Geffen at Goldring
David Giffin, I beg his pardon!
