Product Overview

ANK Audio Kits is pleased to announce the new L3 Phono Stage V2 to fulfil customer requests for a phono stage that uses standard NOS tubes like the 12AX7 and 6922. The new phono stage is a breeze to build and delivers superb sound quality with incredibly quiet operation and no special tube matching required. The phono board also supports large film capacitor locations for the four critical signal path locations.

The ability to purchase a high end DIY phono stage with top quality parts configuration is quite unique in the DIY world today. The tube rectified and regulated M2 power supply delivers ultra quiet power supply voltages. The phono stage uses the best RIAA components, a top quality Mundorf EVO oil film bypass capacitor and 4 x ELNA Silmic cathode bypass capacitors.

12ax7 6922 Phono stage section

The circuit is a similar architecture to the L3 Phono V1 with a high gain input stage followed by passive RIAA and no feedback, followed by an output driver tube. The sound is classic vinyl and rolling some nice NOS tubes in the 12AX7 and 6922 / 6DJ8 position will allow you to tailor the sound to your specific preferences.

With the L3 Phono V2 you can build a quiet phono stage with no tube rush, zero hum and a pure black background. We provide all the terminated cables and grounding strategy. The end result, the subtle sonic details that are hidden in those magical vinyl grooves will be revealed.

Features

• No Feedback AudioNote RIAA circuit
• Dead Quiet operation even for a DIY build – incredible grounding techniques used!
• Bring your vinyl to life !

The Power Supply: 6×5/ECL82 tube regulated

The very high quality Audio Note M2 Power supply section is 6X5 rectified and ECL82 regulated and provides the 12V filaments and HT for the M3 Phono Stage.
We use our specially terminated ground cables for a perfect hum free phono stage. We cut, trim, twist and terminate all the required cables for your build using high quality Silver Plated Teflon hook-up wire.

Versions

We have two version of the L3 Phono stage – the standard version comes with AUdioNote TIn film caps .22 and .1 and they are seriously good sounding ! along with Takman Non magnetic resistors -incredible performance OR you can go for the all AudioNote version with the AUdioNote Tantalums ( 1W) and AudioNote copper film caps .22 and .1 for an astonishing result!

Standalone phono stage with dedicated M2 Power supply – tube regulated and tube rectified! Our Standard L3 Size chassis

Specifications

Parts Compliment includes:

• REL Capacitor RIAA x 4
• Audio Note Copper Capacitors x 4 on Phono Stage
• Mundorf MCap EVO capacitor on Phono Stage
• Takman non magnetic 1W Resistors on Phono Stage
• Mundorf MCap EVO, Mundorf MCap Supreme Silver/Gold/Oil on Power Supply
• Takman non magnetic 1W Resistors on Power Supply
• Audio Note Silver RCA jacks
• Audio Note AN-A shielded cable custom terminated
• Matched Tubes for input stage

The L3 Phonov2 Pcb has been designed for the DIY user wanting to put the BEST components with large footprints into the unit! 1w and 2w tantalums are accomodated here along with Large Film cap footprints! specially designed with REL CAPS for the RIAA section – the 12ax7 input stage and the 6922 output stage with no feedback results in very roleable NOS tubes for ultimate vinyl experimentation!

Check out our ON Line Manual here L3 Phonov2 Manual 

Mundorf EVO Film cap!

Signature version uses Copper film caps and AudioNote tantalums!