“The Gruvys are given to the best products we reviewed in calendar year 2022, the ones we found to possess a combination of high build quality, exceptional sonics, and in the case of less expensive gear, provide great value for the money.
“Straight out of the box, the Manley Chinook phono preamp exhibited a grand sense of orderliness and spaciousness — a very coherent, wide-open, and frequency-neutral phono stage. It strikes a good balance between other top-shelf preamplifiers, providing the flow and warmth of tubes with the coherency of the best solid state. It rendered soundstages width and depth with aplomb, and it dug deeper in midrange and bass.”
