The best phono preamp under $200 will not provide you with a stunning improvement in sound. What it will provide is the ability to play a turntable through an amplifier that does not have a built in phono preamp. You can check whether you need a phono preamp by first checking your turntable to see if it has a switch between line output and phono output. If it has no such switch, which will definitely be the case for pretty much any table before the year 2000, then you’ll need a preamp. That is unless your amplifier has a phono […] Read More →