Unrivaled Clarity and Musicality
As Chord Electronics celebrates its 30th anniversary, the company is proudly launching the Huei phono preamp, offering MM/MC compatibility, integrating turntables to amplifiers with unrivalled clarity and musicality. Entirely conceived, engineered and manufactured in Great Britain, Huei has been carefully designed to provide turntables with the same high standards of amplification that for which Chord Electronics has become known for over the past 30 years.
Comprehensive Compatibility
Benefitting from its ability to excel with both moving magnet and moving coil phono cartridges, Huei offers wide compatibility with a huge range of cartridges, thanks to comprehensive gain and impedance-matching options. Huei’s high-gain and low-gain switching settings are easily accessible via the 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 not only offers comprehensive compatibility, but you have the advantage of experimenting with different settings for the best sonic performance from your favorite cartridges.
The input impedance for moving coil phono cartridges is adjustable from 30Ω to 47kΩ in twelve selectable steps. Input impedance for moving magnet cartridges is fixed at 47kΩ. The gain setting for moving coil cartridges is selectable in eight steps between 48dB and 70dB, while the gain for moving magnet cartridges is selectable in eight steps between 25dB and 35dB.
Precision-Machined and Beautifully Appointed
Precision-machined from solid aircraft-grade aluminum billet and beautifully appointed, 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 defeatable on-board rumble filter.
Huei is a stylish, practical and high-performance solution for integrating turntables into Chord Electronics’ (and other) systems. For maximum flexibility and compatibility with high-end amplifiers, Huei features both balanced (RCA) and unbalanced outputs (XLR) with RCA inputs. A high-quality, low-noise 12-volt external power supply is included.
