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Sutherland PhonoBlock Owner's Manual

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PHONOBLOCKS
-a phono preamplifi cation
instrument
by Sutherland Engineering
OWNER'S MANUAL

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  • Page 1 PHONOBLOCKS -a phono preamplifi cation instrument by Sutherland Engineering OWNER’S MANUAL...
  • Page 2 The PhonoBlock story INTRODUCTION: The PhonoBlock is the phono preamp I designed for my home system. Its design was a self indulgence. I built it to please me. There was no consideration to accommodate any market influences. That mind-set gave me the absolute freedom to build an uncompromised and, in my opinion, the best phono preamp.

  • Page 3: Design Philosophy

    DESIGN PHILOSOPHY Another path to the same destination. Almost always, upscale designs are laden with features. More features are touted to represent ad- vancement, product differentiation AND a rational for the upscale price. The PhonoBlocks don’t play that game. Their elevated performance is achieved by NOT cluttering the signal path with deleterious features.

  • Page 4: Power Supplies

    fill up when AC power is applied. For a design guided by simplicity, the PhonoBlock’s power supply may, at first, appear plenty compli- cated. Admittedly, it is both simple AND complex. It is a long chain of individually simple elements.
  • Page 5 The PhonoBlock interconnection is hidden away, protected and totally shielded. You don’t even see that cable. It is securely tucked into a machined channel in the aluminum front panel.
  • Page 6 You can see and even feel the difference. Some are big. The base of the PhonoBlock is laser machined 12 gage cold rolled steel. That’s about 1/8” thick. That substantial platform is protected with baked on epoxy power coat.

  • Page 7: Grounding Options

    However, the PhonoBlocks distinguish themselves by including white noise generators --- one for each channel. White noise becomes the input signal and passes thru all stages of the PhonoBlock. You can even use the output of the PhonoBlock as a burn-in signal source for interconnect cables and the rest of your system.
  • Page 8 Signal path length is kept short and direct. Only the one, optimum value component is applied to the signal path. The PhonoBlock comes with 4 gain options and 7 cartridge loading values. In addition, blank plug-in boards are included for fine tuning with custom values. You are not limited to...

  • Page 9: Shipping Box

    PHONOBLOCK specifications Cartridge Loading 50 Ohms 100 Ohms 200 Ohms 475 Ohms 1k Ohms 10k Ohms 47k Ohms blank card, can be configured for 1 to 47k Ohms plus capacitance Gain settings 45 dB 50 dB 55 dB 60 dB blank card, can be configured for 40 to 70 dB...

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