All Musica Bella products will be built in our new dual half size split chassis as shown below.

Introduction

The Musica Bella 'PhonoMax' is custom built to meet your personal preferences. It has been design to match the 'Basis' Linestage both sonically and esthetically.

Vinyl playback is continuing to grow in popularity. What was the most popular format in the 60's and 70's had made an extraordinary comeback over the past decade. One listening session with a quality vinyl playback system and you too will wonder why you did not make the transition sooner. The reason is simple....... vinyl simply touches the soul.

The Musica Bella PhonoMax is our reference quality stand alone moving magnet phono stage that has been designed to provide exceptional detail, resolution and speed to vinyl enthusiast.

Power Supply:

The Musica Bella PhonoMax is based around a high quality choke filtered solid state power supply which contains a host of high quality capacitors. High quality metallized polypropylene capacitors are used for the main filter capacitors, Ultra Fast - Soft Recovery diodes are used as well as independent transformers for the B+ and filament supplies. The same high quality diodes are used in our custom rectifying bridge used in the DC supply for the tube filaments.

Being a dual chassis design, the PhonoMax's power supply circuit is kept away from the analog circuit allowing for a dead quiet listening experience while taking up no more room than a single standard size chassis.

With only two tubes, re-tubing or tube rolling in the Basis is easy and affordable.  Like all Musica Bella products, the PhonoMax comes with our 5 year parts and labor warranty

Phono Circuit:

The phono circuit is a zero feedback, perfect RIAA curve using a 12AX7 input and 12AU7 output tubes providing plenty of gain for all MM and high output MC phono cartridges.

Chassis:

The chassis is custom built to your preferences. Many custom chassis designs are available.  Standard design uses Baltic Birch  veneered in only real wood veneers with hardwood chassis' available as an option. For veneer options, please check our VENEER PAGE

Custom built pricing starting at: $1595 Real Wood Veneer

Overview:

- Moving Magnet
- 100% hand crafted
- High quality choke filtered power supply
- Metallized Polypropylene filter capacitors
- RIAA curve using a single 12AX7 input and 12AU7 output tube
- Point-to-point wired (power supply & phono circuit)
- Silver RCA input and output connectors
- Mute switch - optional
- Detachable power cord with high quality IEC unit.
- Your choice of Blue, Red or clear power indicator light or no indicator with tube glow lighting

Specifications: Moving Magnet

- Gain 32db
- Input Overload 300mv
- Input Impedance 47K ohms
- Noise 54db

Shown at left is a "Basis" linestage showing you the new split chassis design that the PhonoMax now incorporates.