Croft specs - too much gain?

[Pharos]

Feeding 4mV (from your cartridge) into a preamp having an input sensitivity of 1mV for full output, ought not cause any problems, as the overload headroom should be something like 20x the nominal sensitivity (or 26dB). The fact that you barely have the volume control from minimum, suggests there is something wrong with the disc input of the preamp.

As Al has suggested, contact Glen Croft for advice.

That is a 12dB increase.

[Wegamus]

Just got word from Glenn and he says an ECC82 will be fine, but he recommends a NOS 12BH7A.

[hifi_dave]

And no, never owned any Naim. What are their volume controls like?

From 6 o/c to 9 o/c, full volume.

[Wegamus]

From 6 o/c to 9 o/c, full volume.

That’s pretty dumb. Is that so that newbies think it must be really powerful in the demo?

I did have demo of a Naim Nova once but the dealer was so snooty, acted as if I didn’t deserve Naim. I asked him if Naim make a phono stage that would go with the Nova and he said no in a very condescending way and offered no alternatives. Mind you, he was very impressed with his BMW which he mentioned twice. Really weird!

[Audio Al]

I have a new unused one of these
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/12BH7-12B...AAAOSwR2Fdemcw

[Wegamus]

I have a new unused one of these
https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/12BH7-12B...AAAOSwR2Fdemcw

Yes please Allen!

[Firebottle]

The Croft phono stages are high gain, too high in my opinion.

[Audio Al]

Yes please Allen!

OK will be posted ASAP

[Pharos]

That’s pretty dumb. Is that so that newbies think it must be really powerful in the demo?

I did have demo of a Naim Nova once but the dealer was so snooty, acted as if I didn’t deserve Naim. I asked him if Naim make a phono stage that would go with the Nova and he said no in a very condescending way and offered no alternatives. Mind you, he was very impressed with his BMW which he mentioned twice. Really weird!

You've stumbled on the traits of a neurotic trying to keep up delusions of self worth, importance, and exclusivity, much more of that did happen than now.

[Wegamus]

You've stumbled on the traits of a neurotic trying to keep up delusions of self worth, importance, and exclusivity, much more of that did happen than now.

Haha I went home and plugged in my 15Wpc Leben and was much happier