Preamplifiers

It would seem, why buy and install the best phono preamp as a separate device when its integrated brothers are already in modern audio equipment (in particular, in some models of mixing consoles)? The point is that microphone preamps, made in the form of a separate unit, provide better sound transmission than the built-in mixer preamps and, as they say, have their own “sound character.” What is a preamp, what are the best models and how to choose it? Let’s go and see.