Phono Stages & Tonearms

Getting the most from a record starts with preserving the information in the groove. Backbeat Audio offers phono stages and tonearms selected for their ability to retrieve and amplify that information without losing the tone, timing and dynamics that make vinyl compelling.

Our phono collection includes the Lab 12 Melto 2 tube phono stage and tonearms from Korf Audio and Thomas Schick. Whether you’re building a turntable from the ground up or looking for the right next step for an existing one, we’ll help you find components that work well together and set them up properly.

I like this scope for /phono: things that support the cartridge, while /phono-cartridges owns the cartridge category itself. It gives us two coherent, complementary analog pages rather than one catch-all vinyl page.