Vinyl specialist Avid Hi-Fi has announced a new phono stage, the Pulsus.

The new device enjoys technology originally developed for the Pulsare, the brace of high-end boxes which Avid claims established “a new benchmark in the sound quality that a phono stage can achieve” in a more budget-friendly package.

Like its predecessor it includes switchable flexibility and separate power supply. It’s an unbalanced design with an exceptionally low noise floor of <-81dB for MM and <-67dB for MC cartridges. Avid also makes claims for extremely low distortion across the audio spectrum as well as an impressive degree of headroom.

Inputs and outputs are both gold-plated RCA while unlike the Pulsare, which features control knobs on the front, gain, resistance and capacitance are adjustable from the underside of the casework.

Many of the Pulsus’s audio specs are the same as its Pulsare big brother, but the main difference is in the power supply: the double regulated 300va transformer is now a single regulated 35va type.

The Avid Pulsus is available now for £1,000.