Despite its limitless capabilities, the IS-1000 is not only super-easy to operate, it’s a real joy to use. It’s also a joy to listen to. Its sounds clean and powerful when playing any music, no matter from where it’s sourced: hard-wired to the rear panel, via a local network or streamed from the internet.

Gold Note’s $11,999 PH-1000 is by a considerable margin the most sophisticated, most configurable phono preamplifier that any audio manufacturer has ever produced, at least that I know of. Remarkably, considering all that flexibility and sophistication, using and adjusting the PH-1000 is straightforward.

The sound it produces is very handed and refined, the quality of electronics is clearly in the premium league..

It got a fantastic set of features, great connectivity, an amazing design, a high-quality build and it is hard finding faults when you’re full of goose bumps all over your body.

If you have been holding off on buying a phono stage to see if something incredible comes onto the market, you’ve hit the jackpot, because Gold Note’s new PH-1000 is everything you’ve been waiting for and more.

Think of Italy and one pictures a nation blessed with effortless style, eye-catching design and a strong sense of its own history..

Effortlessly stylish, elegant in use, beautifully designed, a strong sense of its own history.

Gold Note’s PA-10 is a very capable performer across all the genres and styles of music I threw at it in its standard one box, stereo format.