Hegel V10 Phono Preamplifier - Call for a Discount

The Hegel V10 is a new take on old technology. With 30 years of experience designing cutting-edge discrete transistor circuits, we have built a phono preamplifier like no other. It is neutral, dynamic and exceptionally revealing. We have taken all our knowledge of amplification and applied it to one goal: to get into the register and reveal every last bit of information. The V10 is designed to capture the sound. To bring you closer to the music. To get you into the groove.

Listening to vinyl is a tactile experience. You carefully open the album cover, remove the record from its inner sleeve, inspect it for dust or scratches, place it on the platter and slowly drop the needle to release the sound. It’s about you and your music, selected for this very moment. With the V10, we aim to make this special experience even better. Developed from the ground up and using truly intelligent and unique technologies, the V10 will give you unprecedented transparency and soundscape, making the music you listen to as tangible and real as the record it’s on.

We 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 split into two compartments, physically separating the power supplies from the sensitive amplifier circuitry. There is simply no detectable interference between the two. For the best possible connection, we equipped the V10 with gold-plated terminals, balanced XLR outputs, and a solid custom ground screw. On the all-important input stage, we used discrete, ultra-low noise 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's why we equipped the MC input with four of these transistors wired in parallel. Making the input completely silent and stopping any bias current feedback to the cartridge's coil.

The input signal is fed into equally quiet amplifier circuits, where both the MM and MC gain stages use ultra-low noise power supplies built with discrete bipolar transistors to keep signal noise to a minimum. This ensures extremely accurate amplification of the input signal from the turntable. And to make sure the V10 gets the best operating conditions, it comes with a linear, low-noise analogue AC power supply. This features a large, custom-designed E-core transformer, housed in its own housing to eliminate any chance of interference. It was especially important to us that all vinyl enthusiasts should be able to enjoy the V10. So, out of the box, it is configured as an excellent plug and play MM preamp. For many, this is exactly what they want and need, but some want even more. That's why we've made the V10 highly tunable, catering to individual preferences and requirements in setup, the V10 can be adjusted for any MM and MC cartridge.

When using an MM cartridge, the capacitance can be freely increased between 100 and 467 pF, and when using an MC cartridge, the impedance can be freely set between 33 and 550 ohms or fixed at 47 kohms. On both MM and MC, the gain can be increased by 5, 10 or 12 dB, matching the output of your other sources, the V10 even has a subsonic filter to remove unwanted low-frequency noise. And at the end of the night, when your listening session takes you well past bedtime and you forget to turn the V10 off, the adjustable auto standby function does it 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. It puts you in the groove.