Chord Electronics
Huei Phono Preamplifier
$1,810.00 USDFeatures
Moving magnet and moving coil
Inputs:
1x Stereo unbalanced RCA input
Outputs:
1x Stereo unbalanced RCA output
1x Stereo balanced XLR output
What's in the Box?
Warranty
With Moving Magnet and Moving Coil functionality, Huei offers compatibility with a huge range of phono cartridges in a similar package to the Qutest DAC. Huei introduces ultra-low-noise microprocessor control and makes a stylish, practical, and high-performance solution for integrating turntables into your hifi system.
Phono Integration
Entirely conceived, engineered, and manufactured in Great Britain, Huei has been carefully designed to provide turntables with the same high standards of amplification that Chord Electronics has become known for over the past 30 years.
Benefitting from both Moving Magnet and Moving Coil functionality, Huei offers compatibility with a huge range of cartridges thanks to comprehensive gain and impedance-matching options; Huei’s high- and low-gain switching settings are easily accessible via front-panel controls, introducing welcome flexibility.
Huei’s advanced design offers (for the first time in a Chord Electronics phono preamp) ultra-low-noise microprocessor control of its main features, including a convenient memory function. With multiple options for impedance-matching, seven-stage switchable gain, and a switchable rumble filter, Huei’s design offers comprehensive compatibility.
Precision-machined from solid aircraft-grade aluminum billet, Huei has a similar form factor to the company’s Qutest DAC and also offers a top-mounted viewing window into the illuminated electronics within. The design also shares the same polychromatic control spheres the company has become known for in its digital products. The illuminated front-panel spheres offer direct access to Huei’s gain and impedance settings, selection for MM/MC cartridges, and access to the on-board rumble filter.
Huei is a stylish, practical, and high-performance solution for integrating turntables into Chord Electronics’ (and other) systems and features both balanced (RCA) and unbalanced outputs (XLR) with RCA inputs. A high-quality 12V external power supply is also supplied.
What's in the Box?
- Huei Phono Stage
- Huei user manual
- Safety instructions
- Drawstring bag
- 12V 2A Switching barrel-type power supply
- Grounding plate
- Gain/impedance reference card
| Parameter | Specification |
|---|---|
| Physical Specifications | |
| Dimensions | 160mm (W) x 43mm (D) x 72mm (H) |
| Weight | 770g |
| Technical Specifications | |
| Supported Cartridges | Moving magnet and moving coil |
| Audio Specifications | |
| Selectable Gain | 60dB, 65dB, and 70dB |
| Inputs | 1x Stereo unbalanced RCA input |
| Outputs |
1x Stereo unbalanced RCA output 1x Stereo balanced output |
| Input Impedance | 30Ω – 47kΩ, 50pF – 150pF |
| Input Noise | 1.1nV/Hz |
| Max Output Voltage RMS | 10V RMS |
| Equalisation Gain Range | 0dBV – 75dBV |
| Equalisation Response | RIAA Curve |
| Equalisation Accuracy | ±0.1dB |
| Frequency Response | RIAA Curve = 12Hz to 25kHz |
| Rumble Filter | Rausch Slope -24dB/octave below 50Hz |
| Output Impedance | 520Ω (resistive) |
| Input Power Supply | 12V – 100V to 240V, 50/60Hz PSU |
| Selectable Impedance | 30Ω, 100Ω, 5kΩ, and 4.7pF |