Suggestion for Turntable

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Some tell me that the Devialet's phono is not suitable for expensive turntables because it convert amalogue signal to digital. What is your opinion?

There are hifi fanatics who don't like anything digital. They like euphonic distortion IMO.

I have been making audio recordings for 50+ years using tape recorders, cassette recorders, DAT recorders, even Super VHS for audio and digital recorders. I can assure you that using a good quality digital recorder, mine are Metric Halo LIO-8 and ULN-2 that the output of the recorder is audibly indistinguishable from the microphone feed. Having the ADC and DAC sharing the same clock may be an explanation but they are both transparent. No analogue method I have used is audibly transparent, however expensive. The added distortion is liked by many, ie is euphonic, but there is no doubt that theory the digital used by Devialet, particularly doing the RIAA equalisation in the digital domain, is superior to any analogue method, and IME the theory is borne out in practice.

OTOH if you want to tune the sound you get from a record player an analogue RIAA stage is yet another way to do so.

I have 4 record players here. Few people would consider the main one inexpensive (£28,000 in the early '80s) and I would say the Devialet has the quietest most transparent phono stage I have used, and I have used quite a few over the last 40 years.
My Goldmund Ph2 phono stage has a lovely sound, but it isn't as quiet as the Devialet and I am sure it adds some euphonic distortion.