Gold Note PH-5 Phono Stage

The Gold Note PH-5 is the latest born in Gold Note’s range of phono stages, designed to deliver the same high quality and excellent performance that made the PH-10 and PH-1000 famous, with an affordable price and all the cutting-edge features that makes the Gold Note products stand out. With a single pair of analogue RCAs, it can be connected to either MM or MC cartridges and offers an EQ curves selection (RIAA, Decca London and American Columbia, with Enhanced option), as well as the LOAD’s and GAIN’s adjustments to guarantee the utmost flexibility and versatility, making it perfect for every kind of analogue system.

The PH-5 is the first Gold Note product designed with a touchscreen interface: all the settings are easily accessible and changeable thanks to the innovative and unparalleled user-friendly display that allows you to select and manage all the options in real time while playing your music. The phono stage is based on a completely new design to integrate the whole electronics into a single board.

The digital interface is combined with a full analogue heart: indeed, the signal path is made through discrete audio-grade components and sealed single switches and it’s optimized to shorten the distance and minimize possible interference. Every setting selected through the touchscreen is applied to the audio signal switching its path through the usage of relé. The PH-5 features an “analogue purity” able to deliver superior audio quality and extract even the finest details from the vinyl record.

The Gold Note PH-5 allows a selection of the most appropriate equalization curve for each vinyl record, directly on the touch display: RIAA, DECCA LONDON, and AMERICAN COLUMBIA. Thanks to our proprietary technology inspired by Georg Neumann (the producer of the famous Neumann Disc Cutting Lathe), each curve can be “Enhanced” to extend the frequency response up to 50kHz, improving even further the stage, dynamics, and resolution when required.

To maximize the performance of the PH-5, Gold Note also developed the dedicated, external super inductive power supply that allows the phono stage to achieve its fullest potential, reaching an even higher degree of musical realism, better dynamics, and greater three-dimensionality sound.

Technical Specifications 

EQUALISATION CURVE CONTROL: 3 EQ curves (RIAA, Decca London, American Columbia) all with Enhanced option

INFRASONIC FILTER: 10Hz/36dB octave

FREQUENCY RESPONSE: 20Hz -20kHz ± 0.3dB
Enhanced 20Hz-50kHz ± 0.3dB

THD (Total Harmonic Distortion): <0.05% @ 1kHz

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO: 89dB

DYNAMIC RESPONSE: 105dB

ANALOGUE INPUT: 1x RCA stereo MM/MC

INPUT SENSITIVITY: 0.1mV MC up to 10.0mV MM

INPUT IMPEDANCE: 9 options

GAIN: MM= 40dB
MC= 60dB
with 4 options

CAPACITANCE (MM ONLY): 220pF

AUDIO OUTPUTS: 1x unbalanced RCA
1x balanced XLR

OUTPUT IMPEDANCE: 50Ω

POWER CONSUMPTION: 10W

STANDBY CONSUMPTION: < 0,5W

POWER SUPPLY: 100-120V or 220-240V, 50/60Hz

FUSE: 0,5A F/T

DIMENSIONS: 200W | 80H | 260D mm
290W | 180H | 390D mm – boxed

WEIGHT: Kg. 1.2 – net
Kg. 2.2 – boxed