Hegel V10 MM/MC Phonostage

Hegel V10 MM/MC Phonostage

Hegel V10 MM/MC Phono Preamplifier

"Into The Groove"

The Hegel V10 is a brand new take on an old technology. With 30 years’ experience designing stateof-the-art discrete transistor circuits, Hegel have built a phono preamplifier like no other. It is neutral, dynamic, and exceptionally revealing. Hegel have used all their knowledge in amplification and applied it to one goal, to reach down into the record and reveal every bit of information. 

Details:

Listening to vinyl is a tactile experience. You carefully open the album jacket, remove the record from the inner sleeve, inspect for dust or scratches, place it on the platter, and slowly let the stylus drop to let the sound out. It is all about you and your music, selected for exactly this moment. With the V10 Hegel aim to make this special experience even better. Developed from the ground up and utilizing truly clever and unique technologies, the Hegel V10 will give you an unprecedented transparency and soundscape, making the music you hear as tangible and real as the record it is pressed into.

Hegel achieve this because everything on the V10 is designed with the sole purpose of making your music sound as good as possible. The chassis is divided into two compartments, physically separating the power supplies from the sensitive amplification circuitry. There is simply no detectable interference between the two parts. For the best possible connection, Hegel have fitted the V10 with gold-plated terminals, balanced XLR outputs, and a solid custom grounding screw. On the all important input stage, Hegel have used ultra-low-noise discrete JFET transistors for both the Moving Magnet (MM) and Moving Coil (MC) input. Eliminating external noise is especially important when using sensitive low output MC cartridges. That is why Hegel have fitted the MC input with four such transistors connected in parallel. Making the input completely silent and stopping any bias current feedback to the cartridge coil.

The input signal feeds into equally silent amplifier circuits, where both the MM and the MC gain stages use ultra-low-noise power supplies built with discrete bipolar transistors to keep the signal noise at a minimum. This ensures an extremely accurate amplification of the input signal coming from the turntable. And to make sure the V10 gets the best operating conditions it uses a linear, low noise, analogue AC-power supply. This features a large, custom design, E-core transformer, placed in its own housing to eliminate all possibility of interference.

For Hegel it has been particularly important that all vinyl enthusiasts get to enjoy the V10. So, out of the box it is configured as an excellent plug and play MM preamplifier. For many, this is exactly what they want and need, but some want even more. That is why Hegel has made the V10 highly adjustable to individual preferences and requirements in set up, the V10 can be adjusted for any MM and MC cartridge.

When using a MM cartridge, you can increase the Capacitance between 100 and 467 pF and when using a MC cartridge, the impedance can be set between 33 and 550 ohms or fixed at 47  kohm. On both MM and MC, the gain can be increased by 5, 10 or 12 dB, matching the output ofyour other sources, the V10 even has a Subsonic Filter to remove unwanted low frequency noise. And at the end of the night, when the listening session takes you way past bedtime and you forget to turn off the V10, the adjustable auto standby function does that for you. 

All this makes the V10 the perfect companion for your vinyl setup. Finding the perfect synergy between your system and your listening preferences.

Transporting you "into the groove".

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