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Cyrus Audio continue to celebrate their 40th anniversary with an update of one of their Signature (pun intended) products, which is now duly dubbed the Classic PHONO preamp.

As we noted last fall when we put the spotlight on the company’s TTP turntable, Cyrus Audio is an independent British brand based in Huntingdon, Cambridgeshire in England, and they introduced their original Cyrus One amplifier back in 1984. Cyrus acolytes should also recall the company’s Phono Signature phono preamp from 2016, a rightly acclaimed model that offered four inputs capable of being configured for either moving-magnet (MM) or moving-coil (MC) cartridges.

Fast-forward to the here and now, and the company’s new, updated version of said Signature phono preamp that’s been dubbed the Classic PHONO. This model allows up to four turntables to be permanently connected, enabling the listener to switch between turntables, tonearms, or cartridges accordingly. Each of the four inputs can be adjusted between MM or MC cart options, gain, resistance, and capacitance, and each setting can be saved to memory for future reference.

Additionally, a switchable warp filter is provided to reduce bass excursion on warped records, and stereo-output level meters working in real time allow “clear and accurate” gain adjustment to optimize the headroom available for each MC cartridge.

The Classic PHONO deploys a high-capacity and very low noise DC power supply that is said to enable the preamp to provide an extremely wide dynamic range to ensure extended signal levels long before clipping.

Other features of the Classic PHONO include passive RIAA filters that use “very high performance” metallized polyester capacitors, a ground lift switch, XLR balanced and RCA outputs, and a port for a potential PSX-R2 power supply upgrade.

The Classic PHONO’s dimensions are 215 x 75 x 360 mm (8.46 x 2.95 x13.98in, (w/h/d), and it weighs 4.1kg (9lbs),

Finally, the Cyrus Audio Classic PHONO preamp has an SRP of £1,895, or $2,395 U.S., given the current exchange rates at the time of this posting.

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