Turntable Pro-ject X2B (Clamp not included)
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€1.332,50
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Three to four weeks are usually necessary, sometimes much more
The beginning of a new balanced era
EISA Best Product 2022-2023 Award for True Balanced
Tonearm, Cartridge and Dustcover included
Clamp not included
NEW “True Balanced Connection” by Pro-Ject
Balanced audio connections are usually known from the professional sector like recording studios or live concerts. It is very important to have a stable & interference free connection, as these signals, especially microphone signals, will be highly amplified. The same applies to the connection from your turntable to the phono preamplifier. The big advantage of a balanced connection is its ability to remove picked up noise and interferences.
Balanced connections use three wires for one channel: ground, a hot and a cold wire. The cold wire carries the inverted (reversed in polarity) hot signal.
At the receiving end, the cold signal is flipped and added together. The trick happens here: If the cable picks up any noise, the noise is added to both signals. So, a positive interference is a positive tick on the hot and on the cold signal. If you now flip one of them, the interference is also inverted, so you get the same interference once in a positive and once in a negative direction. If you now add these two signals, the noise will cancel out.
The X2 B is our first turntable with a fully balanced mini XLR output which offers you a symmetrical connection to our new Phono Box S3 B or Phono Box DS3 B.
To use our True balanced connection your turntable needs to be equipped with an MC cartridge, so the X2 B comes with a premium Ortofon Quintet Red MC cartridge pre-installed.
Includes:
- NEW RCA phono & 5-pin mini XLR output
- Pre-adjusted Ortofon Quintet Red cartridge
- Electronic speed control with 33/45 rpm speed change
- Sub-platter with extremely low bearing tolerances
- Stainless steel platter-bearing with soft bronze bushing and teflon mirrors for lowest rumble and noise
- 9” one-piece carbon/aluminium tonearm tube
- TPE damped counterweight
- Azimuth and VTA adjustment
- Resonance free, 2 kg heavy acrylic platter
- Heavy, 50 mm thick, highest quality CNC‘d MDF chassis
- Luxury 8 layers of painting or real-wood veneer
- Shielded, semi-symmetrical, low-capacitance cables
- Height adjustable, alu machined, vibration absorbing feet
Handmade in Europe
Real high-end features:
- Speed: 33, 45, 78 (electronic speed change)
- Outputs: Phono RCA & 5-pin Mini XLR
- Drive principle: belt drive
- Platter: 30mm thick acryl, 2 kg heavy acryl
- Mains bearing: stainless steel
- Speed variance: 33: +/-0,25%; 45: +/-0,20%
- Wow and flutter: 33: +/-0,12%; 45: +/-0,10%
- Signal to noise: 70dB
- Tonearm: 9” carbon/aluminium sandwich tonearm
- Effective tonearm length & mass: 9“/230 mm & 13,5 g
- Overhang: 18 mm
- Tracking force: 0 - 30mN
- Power connection: 110 - 240 V, 50/60 Hz
- Power consumption: 4.5 W max / 0.3 W standby
- Dimensions: 460 x 150 x 340 mm (WxHxD) lid closed
- Weight: 10 kg
Included accessories:
- 15V DC / 800 mA power supply,
- dust cover
- Connect it Phono E RCA cable
- felt mat