Ask us to talk about some of our favourite high-end phono stages of all time, and it wouldn’t be long before Luxman’s excellent valve-based EQ-500 is mentioned. What Hi-Fi? tested this immaculately engineered unit back in 2017, and it made such an impression that we even used it in our reference system for a while.
The Luxman E-07 replaces that capable model, and quite clearly has a lot to live up to. This new design is no mere tweak of its predecessor, using a solid-state circuit rather than valves, but in terms of build and performance, it is every bit as impressive.
