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Originally posted by gonk:
I think that's a question that can't be definitively answered. It can be answered, but any answer will be debated without resolution.

I still see more than one way to interpret the omission of a phono section. One is that they don't care about high performance two-channel audio quality. Another is that they recognize that the quality of phono section that could be included in a product of this type would not offer the sort of performance that a discerning ear and good vinyl setup would deserve, so they omitted it entirely rather than furnish something that was inherently limited.
Hey, glad to see this discussion back on a civil, interesting track. Gonk, I need to play devil's advocate here so please indulge me. If the omission of the phono section was a quality decision, what on earth are composite video inputs doing on the back of this thing? Is there a lower-quality way to watch video? Anyone out there using these for anything other than maybe a mini-monitor for 990 menu viewing? Would have gladly had the cost of those yellow relics funneled into a decent phono stage, but I guess we could go around and around on this (kind of like a nice slab of vinyl...;-) forever...
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