I'm selling my PhD that I have owned since 2004. Asking price is $1850.00. It cost $3,000 new, then as now. I am in Southern Maryland, near Washington D.C.
I looked the thing over very carefully today and can find no scratches or marks anywhere
It will ship in its original box, with a full complement of batteries, and with a pair of optional high-gain cards. Between the 8 settings on the 2 cards, it has gain adjustable from 45, 50, 55, and 60 dB on one card and 62, 64, 66, and 68 dB on the high-gain cards. The unit also has 4 load settings, 100, 200, 1k, and 47k ohms. Additional load settings are as easy as swapping the load resistors on the card.
There are reviews from Stereophile here
http://www.stereophile.com/phonopreamps/104sutherland/ and from Positive Feedback Online here:
http://www.positive-feedback.com/Issue12/sutherlandphd.htmI really like the way this phono stage sounds. I used it with a Cardas Myrtle Heart (silver) and an Audio Tekne MC-6310 cartridges, both of which I'll be posting for sale here soon, along with an Aesthetix demagnetizer. The MC-6310 is a .1 mV cartridge, and I finally settled on 55 dB gain with a 20 dB step-up transformer. The SUTs are already sold. As usual with a phono stage, I had to work a number of grounding setups to find the quietest one. The PhD is battery powered, but there still can be ground loops and RFI (depending on interconnects) all over the place from the cartridge to the linestage.
I am selling this because I have moved to a Soundsmith Strain Gauge system, which is fundamentally different from a MC or MM cartridge and does not use a phono stage.
I can't seem to load images here, so this is a link to my PhD gallery:
http://www.audiocircle.com/index.php?action=gallery&pos=0
