Description

Skoll is the highest performance, most flexible, least expensive balanced phono preamp available today. Put it in your system, sit down in your chair, and adjust everything with the included remote control. You’ll give up nothing to the big-boy phono preamps out there—while keeping a much fatter wallet!

Over the Top Performance
Skoll is insanely quiet and accurate—and it does this with uber-simple, fully discrete, differential Class A zero feedback gain stages and a fully passive RIAA network. Or, in English, there’s not an op-amp in sight. Skoll’s gain stage is compound JFET-BJT pair running on massive 64V rails for enhanced linearity and freedom from overload. The result is over 100dB signal to noise ratio for 40dB of gain, and up to 70dB of gain on tap.

Flexibility Without Penalty
Is your turntable single-ended or balanced? Don’t worry. There’s no performance penalty for either balanced or single-ended input or output. And with four gain levels, it’s ready for virtually any cartridge, from MM to MC to MI. Add relay-switched inputs for two turntables, plus relay-ladder loading for both R and C values, as well as a switchable passive LF filter, and Skoll delivers all the flexibility you need without penalty. We even went so far as to post-filter the relay power supplies and make the microprocessor turn off when not in use, in order to keep Skoll exceptionally noise- and interference-free.

Adjust Everything from Your Listening Chair
Here’s where it gets good. Skoll includes a remote control, so you can adjust literally everything without getting out of your favorite listening chair. As in, you can:

• Select input: choose balanced or SE input
• Change gain: choose 40, 50, 60, or 70dB
• Change resistive loading: Choose 47k, or 10, 50, 100, or 150 ohms
• Change capacitive loading: choose 50, 100, 150, or 200pF
• Select LF filter: choose no LF filter, or engage the 2-pole/15 Hz passive network

Designed and Built in Texas
By “designed and built in Texas,” this is what we mean: Skoll was designed and built at our Corpus Christi, Texas facility, and the vast majority of the total production cost of Skoll—chassis, boards, assembly, etc—goes to US companies manufacturing in the USA. Our chassis are made in California. Our PCBs are done in Nevada. Yes, the wall-warts are made overseas, but there’s some give and take at this price point.

2-Year Warranty and 14-Day Returns
Skoll is covered by a limited warranty that covers parts and labor for two years. And, if you don’t like Skoll, you can send it back for a refund, within 14 days of receiving your product.

SPECS THAT MATTER

Gain: enough for all turntables, all cartridges
Noise: insanely low for a turntable, you’ll be hearing the pops not the hiss
Distortion: 10-100x lower than any record you’ll play
Heat: top gets moderately warm; nothing to worry about, we make stuff that runs waaaaaay hotter for years and years
Size: smaller than a typical rack product, but probably not small enough to hide behind the turntable

OTHER SPECS

Gain: 40db
THD: <0.006%, ref 4V RMS balanced, 2V RMS SE
SNR: >102dB, A-weighted, ref 4V RMS balanced, 2V RMS SE
Crosstalk: -100dB, 20-20kHz
Sensitivity: 2.85mV for 300mV output at 1kHz