Graham Slee Accession MM/PSU1

The Accession stereo phono stage preamplifier uses patented technology which reveals much more musical detail and goes even further in relegating vinyl's bad points.

It has some really useful features too - fixed or variable output levels - front panel volume control - selectable EQ settings - and more...

The impeccable sound of the Accession stereo phono stage preamp takes music from vinyl and sets it on a new higher pedestal – it's what all vinyl lovers will want to hear.

Previously overlooked technology has been perfected to extract much more of what's hidden in the music on vinyl records.
The resulting sound from the Accession hi-fi phono stage preamp is considerably closer to the music laid down at its recording.

The Accession goes further than ever in keeping interference out: it has a solid ground plane board; multiple layers of radio frequency filtering; high immunity design, and the V2 casework has stainless steel "gaskets" behind front and rear panels which seal against electromagnetic disturbances - they provide conductive shielding in contact with board grounds which anodised aluminium panels alone cannot do.

ts design recognises something virtually all other phono preamps don't - that record equalisation isn't what most think it is!

Record equalisation is quite a convoluted process complicated by historical and physical technical limitations - for records to work at all required some considerable compromises simply to cut and press the groove.

This is why record EQ exists and why the phono preamp has the job of correcting it.

But there's something else contributing to the EQ which the phono preamp has to correct — the actual cartridge being used to play records has a rising response.

Here we're not talking about something subtle — it is a real rising response few understand — the cartridge output is rising at a rate of 6dB per octave, a 45 degree slope, and it's completely different to the EQ applied to the record.

Even so, ever since the magnetic cartridge came on the scene — the cartridge type we all use today — phono preamp designers have looked at the combined EQs of record and cartridge as being one.

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