Gold Note PH-5

Gold Note PH-5

The PH-5 is the latest addition to the Gold Note range of phono stages, designed to deliver the same high quality and excellent performance that have made the PH-10 and PH-1000 famous. With an affordable price and all the advanced features that distinguish our products.

With a single RCA input, it can be connected to MM or MC cartridges and offers EQ curve selection (RIAA, Decca London, and American Columbia, with enhanced option). As well as the LOAD’s and GAIN’s adjustments to ensure the greatest possible flexibility.

The PH-5 is the first Gold Note product designed with a touchscreen interface: all settings are easily accessible and changeable thanks to the innovative and unparalleled user-friendly display that allows you to select and manage all options in real time.

The phono stage is based on a completely new design to integrate all the electronics into a single board. The digital interface is combined with a fully analog heart. The signal path is made through discrete high-quality audio components and sealed single switches, optimized to shorten the distance and minimize possible interference.

Every setting selected via the touchscreen is applied to the audio signal, changing its path through the use of relays. The PH-5 features “analog purity” capable of delivering superior audio quality and even extracting the finest details from the vinyl record.

The Gold Note PH-5 allows for the selection of the most suitable equalization curve for each vinyl record directly on the touchscreen: RIAA, DECCA LONDON, and AMERICAN COLUMBIA.

Thanks to this patented technology, inspired by Georg Neumann (the manufacturer of the famous Neumann Disc Cutting Lathe), each curve can be “enhanced” to extend the frequency response to 50 kHz, further improving the stage, dynamics, and resolution if necessary.

Specifications:

• EQUALISATION CURVE CONTROL
• 3 EQ curves (RIAA, Decca London, American Columbia) all with Enhanced option
• INFRASONIC FILTER 10Hz/36dB octave
• FREQUENCY RESPONSE 20Hz -20kHz ± 0.3dB
  Enhanced  20Hz-50kHz ± 0.3dB
• THD (Total Harmonic Distortion) <0.05% @ 1kHz
• SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO 89dB
• DYNAMIC RESPONSE 105dB

More information can be found on the website of Gold Note https://www.goldnote.it/phono-stages/ph-5/