T.H.E. Show Newport 2013

Channel D's Rob Robinson, creator of Pure Music and Pure Vinyl software showed and played for me via an AMG Viella turntable and tonearm, the upgraded edition of his battery powered direct coupled, fully balanced Seta Model L Phono preamplifier. It can be had with or without RIAA equalization. The non-RIAA version is for use with his Pure Vinyl software. You digitize flat at high resolution and then apply precise digital domain RIAA equalization during playback.

You can choose among dozens of EQ curves programmed into the software and gain the benefit of precision equalization accomplished without the use of potentially value-shifting capacitors and resistors. The EQ choices allow you to really do stupid thing in playback but I know Analogplanet readers will stick to RIAA for all of their stereo records since that was how they were all made, even British Deccas and Columbia records since the dawn of stereo—despite what you might have read or been told elsewhere.

The made in the USA SETA is priced from $3998 to $6998 for the RIAA edition as shown. I asked for a sample to write a follow up to the original review written for Stereophile back in 2010 and posted to this website under "phono preamplifier reviews."