{"id":8387,"date":"2010-04-24T18:00:55","date_gmt":"2010-04-24T16:00:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hifi-advice.com\/blog\/?page_id=8387"},"modified":"2019-03-29T10:52:06","modified_gmt":"2019-03-29T08:52:06","slug":"sta-1-phono-preamp","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.hifi-advice.com\/blog\/sta-1-phono-preamp\/","title":{"rendered":"JRDG Company Special &#8211; STA-1 Phono Preamp"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Year produced not known<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8294\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hifi-advice.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/rowland-mcc-en-sta-1-pre-en-phono-prehistorisch_550pix.jpg\" alt=\"rowland-mcc-en-sta-1-pre-en-phono-prehistorisch_550pix\" width=\"550\" height=\"252\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hifi-advice.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/rowland-mcc-en-sta-1-pre-en-phono-prehistorisch_550pix.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.hifi-advice.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/rowland-mcc-en-sta-1-pre-en-phono-prehistorisch_550pix-150x69.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.hifi-advice.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/rowland-mcc-en-sta-1-pre-en-phono-prehistorisch_550pix-380x174.jpg 380w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Above: the complete system in a Jeff Rowland publication: MCC-1 preamp, MPS-1 power supply and STA-1 phono stage<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-8388\" src=\"http:\/\/www.hifi-advice.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Rowland-Research-MCC-1MPS-1_550PIX.jpg\" alt=\"rowland-research-mcc-1mps-1_550pix\" width=\"550\" height=\"368\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.hifi-advice.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Rowland-Research-MCC-1MPS-1_550PIX.jpg 550w, https:\/\/www.hifi-advice.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Rowland-Research-MCC-1MPS-1_550PIX-150x100.jpg 150w, https:\/\/www.hifi-advice.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Rowland-Research-MCC-1MPS-1_550PIX-490x327.jpg 490w, https:\/\/www.hifi-advice.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Rowland-Research-MCC-1MPS-1_550PIX-360x240.jpg 360w, https:\/\/www.hifi-advice.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Rowland-Research-MCC-1MPS-1_550PIX-540x360.jpg 540w, https:\/\/www.hifi-advice.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Rowland-Research-MCC-1MPS-1_550PIX-226x150.jpg 226w, https:\/\/www.hifi-advice.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/10\/Rowland-Research-MCC-1MPS-1_550PIX-380x254.jpg 380w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 550px) 100vw, 550px\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Pictured above is the MCC-1 preamp and the MPS-1 power supply (so without the STA-1 phono stage)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Classic Rowland Research 3-piece preamp design consisting of a Line section, Strain gauge phono section and power supply section. Volume control is stepped (21 steps).<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">According to info found on Audiogon from a previous owner who asked Jeff during a CES\u00a0audio show, the\u00a0phono section on this preamp (STA-1) is a Strain Gauge design which will not work with regular MC\/MM cartridge.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">These were probably Jeff&#8217;s first commercial products. Sadly I don&#8217;t know anything else about these products. If you have more info, or better images, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.hifi-advice.com\/blog\/about\/contact-2\/\">do please let me know<\/a>.<\/p>\n<h2>More Jeff Rowland<\/h2>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hifi-advice.com\/blog\/specials\/jeff-rowland-company-special\/\">Jeff Rowland Company Special Main Page<br \/>\n<\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/www.hifi-advice.com\/blog\/specials\/jeff-rowland-company-special\/jeff-rowland-phono-stage\/\">Jeff Rowland Company Special Phono Stages<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Year produced not known Above: the complete system in a Jeff Rowland publication: MCC-1 preamp, MPS-1 power supply and STA-1 phono stage Pictured above is the MCC-1 preamp and the MPS-1 power supply (so without the STA-1 phono stage) Classic Rowland Research 3-piece preamp design consisting of a Line section, Strain gauge phono section and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-8387","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hifi-advice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8387","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hifi-advice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hifi-advice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hifi-advice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hifi-advice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8387"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.hifi-advice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8387\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9736,"href":"https:\/\/www.hifi-advice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/8387\/revisions\/9736"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hifi-advice.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8387"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}