The 10 Best magnet preamps (2023 reviews)

We consider a magnet preamp to be a worthy investment in the long run. We are here to help you choose the right one for your needs from all the best available products in market today.

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Best Overall: Buy: Fosi Audio magnet Preamp READ REVIEW

Best For TV: Buy: Pyle magnet Preamp READ REVIEW

Best For budget: Buy: Fluance magnet Preamp READ REVIEW

Best For Stream: Buy: Dynasty PROAUDIO magnet Preamp READ REVIEW

Best With Very Little burn: Buy: Cambridge Audio magnet Preamp READ REVIEW

Best For Money: Buy: Aiyima magnet Preamp READ REVIEW

Best With Remote Control: Buy: Bellari magnet Preamp READ REVIEW

Best With Moving coil cartridges: Buy: Rega magnet Preamp READ REVIEW

Best For CD Player: Buy: Parasound magnet Preamp READ REVIEW

Best With USB: Buy: Music hall magnet Preamp READ REVIEW

Best Overall: Fosi Audio magnet Preamp

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The fosi audio magnet preamp is capable of outshining several other preamp featured in this list in overall features. The sound is exactly what vinyl is supposed to sound like. The Fosi phono preamp is easy to setup, with a small footprint. It has performances such as short-circuit protection and overload protection. It is designed with a grounding post to protect your turntable. The front panel has a switch for on/off and gain control and input for auxiliary input for CD, etc. The ground terminal is also gold plated, spring loaded, and works pretty well.

This preamp has a great smooth sound. The knobs are very well made, good quality plastic, but everything else besides the rubber feet and glass tubes is metal.

• Warm sounds, lovely aesthetic to the vinyl table
• Gives a warm, rich sound to the playing of vinyl records
• Crystal clear and loud, even at the lowest setting

Best For TV: Pyle magnet Preamp

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We know from years of feedback from readers, customers and amazon sellers, what most people want in a convenient and appropriate preamp. The pyle magnet preamp is exactly that - it's a simple preamp that hits all the right notes. It's amazing how good these records sound when played using this Pyle preamp into a good amplifier and speaker system. It's perfectly for turntables not built with ground wires. The Pyle PP44 has a ground lug/screw attaching point. It's simply a 1/4" jack stereo line output to hook it to a professionnal mixing console.

This is a preamplifier to connect a turntable to a CD input on a power amplifier. It is perfectly for turntables not built with ground wires. The pre-amp increases the signal so that the amp can provide enough power to drive the speakers. The little brass colored post (looks like a lug nut) is the ground lug. It is perfect for a simple vinyl system to get those beettles lps back on the pallatter.

• Easy setup, no problems encountered and it works
• Allows old turntables to play on newer systems without breaking the bank
• Good brand reputation

Best For budget: Fluance magnet Preamp

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Next on the list, we've got yet another preamp that manages to win our hearts. It's the fluance magnet preamp and it's widely considered as preamp that doesn't put a dent in your wallet. Take your turntable music listening experience to an envious level with the fluance pa10 high fidelity phono preamplifier, allowing you to reproduce your analog audio with superb clarity and accuracy. This device is designed for amplifiers that do NOT have a phono preamp circuit built-in. It is compact, very well made and even the packaging of the product is very nice.

The build quality of the PA10 is excellent including its unique exterior wood grain finish and its unique exterior wood grain finish. The box is all finished in black (except the rear connections) with only a small power indicator lamp lit on the front to show it's on. The preamp does not have a separate volume control because the volume is controlled by your amplifier. It is a clear improvement over the pyle and the sound is incredibly clear and makes the entire setup sound perfect. You can use this with any turntable with a moving magnet cartridge and no preamp.

• Blends in with the (black) yamaha receiver
• Does not take up much space, and looks good
• Easy to connect, no hum and sounds great

Best For Stream: Dynasty PROAUDIO magnet Preamp

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The dynasty proaudio magnet preamp's material feels more premium than its price would suggest. The AUX2D has built-in phono preamp with low-noise riaa that allow you to amplify the phono signal and line level signals for vinyl playback systems which can connect sound systems to other audio sources. It works well to boost the line signal from modern audio devices such as a portable CD player to the AUX input or a low voltage magnetic phono cartridge to a ceramic phono input of vintage tube audio amplifiers. The sound is excellent with no coloring, just pass through to the amp.

The input/output gain level comes in handy for those low recordings and makes every record sound really awesome. The unit has a durable metal case and the knobs and buttons feel high quality. It supports a variety of software programs without driver installed, very easy to use.

• Love the all the extra controls on front, plus on/off switch
• Works and sounds great, all at a super pruce
• Sound is clear with no hum or interference noise

Best With Very Little burn: Cambridge Audio magnet Preamp

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The cambridge audio magnet preamp should be able to handle its purpose and duties with ease. Cambridge Audio’s Alva Solo is a dedicated moving magnet phono preamp designed to give you a superb sonic experience from your favorite record collection using its switch mode power supply and surface mounted circuit board. It includes a phono stage for regular mm cartridges and one for low output mc cartridges as well as a headphone preamp. The preamp has one set of inputs and one set of outputs. It is excellent, and suggests that the ultrasonics produced through the cambridge will provide enough high frequency interference patterns to affect the lower frequency harmonics, which would explain why there's a better sounding image from the cambridge than with the art.

The Cambridge Alva sounds better between the Luxman and the C33 than the Luxman did straight into the phono input of a Marantz SR. You will notice more smoothness and warmth with less distortion and background noise. The Alva solo will even work if your vinyls are a little worse for wear. It's not a pre-emphasized lift, just enough to make everything sound a little clearer than the Art.

• Good brand reputation
• Good investment for long term

Best For Money: Aiyima magnet Preamp

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The aiyima magnet preamp's high-end materials makes sure that it ages well with use. The flexibility to tailor the sound to your liking through the use of different tubes is a great feature of this unit. It is custom-made, unique, exquisite, and desktop, it is designed for everyone who loves hifi, audiophiles and beginners. The construction of the case is pretty thick aluminum with excellent fit and finish, and it has very attractive real wood rails that serve to protect the tube on top. The remote comes with a "display" button that turns off the LED display on the AIYIMA, which removes the distracting light while you're watching TV in a darker room.

The T8 also comes with a simple remote control that allows you to change the treble and bass as well as the volume and inputs. The screen is bright and easy to read and the wooden bars provide a nice bit of protection for the tube. The sound quality of USB and Bluetooth has improved as well.

• Sound-staging characteristics were accurate with excellent imaging
• Works with a 15ft usb cable without skipping a beat
• Volume ranges from 0 to 100 in a nice, smooth scale

Best With Remote Control: Bellari magnet Preamp

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Bellari line of preamp come in a pretty wide variety of styles, so you can definitely find one that suits your individual preferences and needs. The bellari pa550 preamplifier is built well and sounds great but has a couple of things that need to be dealt with. It's very solidly built, and has enough weight so that when it's on top of the jukebox it doesn't move around. The tone controls work together to bring base and treble alive on a variety of LP records. The volume has tons of head room and rarely need it to go above 11 o’clock. It has provided a good boost to the incoming signal.

It's perfectly built, and has enough weight so that when it's on top of the jukebox it doesn't move around. The tone controls work together at bringing base and treble alive on a variety of LP records.

• Overuse the tone control and the sound becomes colored
• Very quiet, and having tone controls is a terrific addition
• Great engineering and clean signal transfer

Best With Moving coil cartridges: Rega magnet Preamp

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The rega magnet preamp is suitable and reliable and fits well with your regular usage. The Fono III MM delivers a fabulous clean and wide soundstage from your MM cart, looks great, and has a clean simplicity to it's design because it's focused on doing just one thing really well. It works with moving coil cartridges. It doesnt have that extreme crispy highs nor does it have a punchy bottom feel like the Schiit and ifi zen. The interweaving of the main and subplot is masterfully done and they complement each other nicely.

The Fono MM uses a fully discrete, cascaded, complementary amplifier input stage, a configuration designed to optimise the performance of your moving magnet cartridge. Paired this preamp with a Pro-Ject Debut Carbon DC/2M Red cartridge and it sounds outstanding. The bass is punchier and the soundstage is much more open than the Solo. It will bring you close to the music.

• Sounds stunning, very low noise floor, beautiful detail
• Rich, full, detailed without any harshness
• Warm and musical, gorgeous simple minimal look

Best For CD Player: Parasound magnet Preamp

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The parasound magnet preamp should be able to handle its purpose and duties with ease. Even if you just want a great phono preamp between your turntable and receiver, this is a great choice. The Zphono pre section has much more gain, sound clarity is superb, if you are running all solidstate amplifiers it will sound great. It provides additional features such as a rumble filter, line in connections, a power switch, etc.

The pre-amp just stays on 24/7 and the green LED light shines continuously. It is shielded, which will introduce no noise at all. It will work with anything older or newer as well so long as the os supports usb.

Nonetheless, this device is quite efficient in every other aspect and such features of Parasound Zphono, that might come handy, has been already discussed by other reviewers and no need to be repeated here.

• Great sound, extra lines-in make a nice little expansion unit
• Well-made, elegant, and best of all, extremely functional
• Increases the already excellent dynamics and bass

Best With USB: Music hall magnet Preamp

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The music hall magnet preamp is satisfactory and appropriate and fits well with your daily usage. This phono preamp (Music Hall pa2.2) which covers both MM [moving magnet] and MC [moving coil] cartridges, is in fact more than a simple phono for turntables. It delivers a wide, open, clear, and dynamic sound. It is the solid brass knob near the phono rca connectors. It has a USB type b host socket. The pa2.2 has excellent performance and SOLID construction.

One of the crucial features of this phono is its volume knob that can be used if you use VARIABLE LINE OUT. Of all, the pa2.2 works with both moving magnet and moving coil cartridges, so it can handle your current turntable, and whatever you might get in the future. If you'd like to hook up a tape deck or cd player, there's a second set of rca inputs so you can enjoy them as well.

• Analogue line-level input total harmonic distortion + noise
• Fixed or variable line output capability
• Energy efficient external switch mode power supply