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Chord Huei Phonostage Boxed
Chord Huei
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Newly unveiled by Chord Electronics, Huei is a multi-cartridge compatible phono stage in the compact Qutest chassis. Keeping with Chord Electronic's usual high standards of design and manufacture, Huei offers support for a wide range of cartridges due to its capability of switching between Moving Magnet/Moving Coil cartridges, alongside various gain and impedance options selectable via the easily accessible front controls.

 

Here is what Chord Electronics say about the Huei

Huei is a compact phono stage that offers both MM and MC compatibility allowing turntables to integrate into amplifiers with ease. 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 aluminium 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.

 

Features

Supports both Moving Magnet and Moving Coil cartridges

Selectable impedance: 30Ω, 100Ω, 5kΩ, and 4.7pf

Selectable gain: 60dB, 65dB, and 70dB

Stereo unbalanced RCA inputs

Stereo unbalanced RCA outputs and Stereo balanced XLR Outputs

Country of manufacture: England

 

 

 

 

"The Chord Huei is a good place to start. And, I think, a good place to stop. This just might be the last phono stage you’ll ever need or want." (Read More)

 

Equipment Review - ecoustics - March 2021

 

"With Ortofon’s Cadenza Bronze moving coil cartridge Huei set up a big wide sound stage in front of me.There was no hiss or hum, just perfect silence until needle hit the groove. Spinning Fanfare for the Common Man, from Two Countries One Heart - an all-analogue and well balanced 180gm LP - kettle drum strikes were fast and clean, having plenty of visceral power. Brass blared with fruity impact and the whole performance strode along with good pace. Intrigued by the novel Rumble filter I pressed it on and off and bass power was unaffected, kettle drum losing no impact." (Read More)

 

Hi-Fi World - 4 World Review - 2020

 

"There's plenty to like about the stereo imaging, which is open and stable. Instruments and sounds are confidently placed in the decently sized soundstage and don't wander as the music becomes more demanding. There's a pleasing lack of hardness and edge to the sound, which makes it easy to sit in front of for hours on end." (Read More)

 

What Hi-Fi? 4 Star Review - December 2019

 

“The Huei is all about clarity and space, rather than how well it smoothes out your forward-sounding cartridge or sweetens up your scratchy records.

 

The Chord's wide open, glass-clear midband integrates smoothly with a strong bass and crisp, extended treble. This makes for a very neutral reading of whatever LP you care to play, with the unusual combination of a well lit and highly revealing upper midband, and very low record surface noise.”

 

Stereonet 5 Star Applause Award - November 2019

 

 

 

Specification

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 per octave below 50Hz

Output impedance: 520Ω (resistive)

Input power supply: 12v – 100v to 240v 50/60Hz PSU

Weight: 770g

Dimensions: 160mm (W) x 43mm (D) x 72mm (H)

Boxed Weight: 1500g

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