The V-Series are like stripped-down alternatives to the X-Series. What the designers did was preserve those aspects which maximize performance while doing away with or simplifying the expensive bits. PCB sizing is minimized and casework is reduced too. There are no dressy front panels, in fact no front panels at all: inputs are on one end and outputs are at the other. Musical Fidelity invested in production tooling, and committed to large quantities in order to further reduce costs per unit. The V-LPS is a very high performance MM/MC Phono Stage. It is technically correct. It has virtually perfect RIAA (0.3dB 20Hz - 20kHz), extremely low distortion, wide overload margin and very low noise. By every tehnical measure it is top quality. We achieve this by putting our kW Series phono stage circuitry into a package which is extremely economical. It really isn't rocket science, all you have to do is to be determined to make incredible value for money. And that's the V-LPS!