To Doug Schneider,
I want to thank you for your response to my question in October about the Harman Kardon 990 integrated amp. I’m thinking about getting it but have not heard it as of yet because we have no dealers in Atlanta. Even though it has its own phono section, I have my own phono preamp from Cary Audio that I would use instead. What do you think about my tube phono preamp being used with this solid-state amp?
Ron Arceneaux
There’s no reason you can’t use your tube-based phono stage with the 990 -- people often get tube-based products to achieve a particular sound, which is probably why you want to use the Cary. What you’ll need to do is simply connect the turntable to the phono stage, and then the phono stage to one of the 990’s line-level inputs. . . . Doug Schneider
