CH Precision P10 phonostage

[Peterhongkong]

Hi Daryl, well my observations, impressions and experience after 15 weeks of almost daily listening with the P10 are - in one short sentence - that any kind of music sounds just more beautiful. It is such a pleasure to listen to any kind of my vinyl now.

After 3 months of constantantly using it, the P10 finally really "opened" up - fabulous and so so nice. 3 dimensional sound stage, depth, width, micro details, bass... and everything much more effortless, smooth with a warm sound enabling me to listen sometimes for hours without getting tired.
After lots of testings, forwards-and-backwards I finally set the gain at 24 db. If I further reduce it (and increase the volume output accordingly) the sound becomes more muddy the lower I adjust the gain. Interesting as the “best ratio” should be between 12db to 18db?
But it really depends on the system and gain of the preamp. Lower the gain means lower noise floor but might not be the best sounding gain level for my system with L10 preamp and the Koetsu with the quite low impedance.
Hope you like your P10 as much as i do and enjoy wonderful music experiences. Cheers

 

[TLi]

Hi Daryl, well my observations, impressions and experience after 15 weeks of almost daily listening with the P10 are - in one short sentence - that any kind of music sounds just more beautiful. It is such a pleasure to listen to any kind of my vinyl now.

After 3 months of constantantly using it, the P10 finally really "opened" up - fabulous and so so nice. 3 dimensional sound stage, depth, width, micro details, bass... and everything much more effortless, smooth with a warm sound enabling me to listen sometimes for hours without getting tired.
After lots of testings, forwards-and-backwards I finally set the gain at 24 db. If I further reduce it (and increase the volume output accordingly) the sound becomes more muddy the lower I adjust the gain. Interesting as the “best ratio” should be between 12db to 18db?
But it really depends on the system and gain of the preamp. Lower the gain means lower noise floor but might not be the best sounding gain level for my system with L10 preamp and the Koetsu with the quite low impedance.
Hope you like your P10 as much as i do and enjoy wonderful music experiences. Cheers

Peter and I roughly have our P10 in Hong Kong at the same time. It sounded very well brand new and is getting better and better by the week.

I use Koetsu most of the time as well but my best gain is between 12dB and 15 dB. For 18dB or above, the image is enlarged and starts to sound a little rough. That is for me and my system.

P10 is very sensitive to vibration, good isolation is needed to get the best juice from it. I use active isolator for both the main and power supply unit. The result is very good.

 

[DarrellC]

Thanks for the updates, it looks like an excellent component.

 

[JackD201]

What my friends up North said. I'm not missing anything and I feel I've got nothing more to look for quite honestly. This is something I can live with for a very, very long time. The killer is that because of the modular architecture, upgrades will likely be made available in the future.

 

[Peterhongkong]

Today I received finally the matching “partner” for my P10! After listening since years to the wonderful performance of the great Mstislaw Rostropovich playing Schubert’s “Appeggione Sonata” on Japanese 1st pressing CD, I was looking in vain for the LP. It is the favorite album in my classic collection. But this week my wife found the LP, also Japanese pressing, in a 2nd hand shop in Beijing and bought it for me. It’s in excellent condition and sounds just beautiful. Such a fantastic performance and super rare album! With the P10 and super silent background it just “blows” me away, the sound is fantastic, so mellow and beautiful.