🔘 Pro-Ject Phono Box S2 - Black Review

I was flattered by the laudatory reviews and the fact that the phono stage is from the same company as my vinyl player. However, it's a bummer. If through the amplifier and speakers, the sound seemed to be better, due to the raising of the bass, then when listening through headphones, it was just a disaster! The player is powered by its impulse power supply, the corrector from its own, either an overlay or something else happened . In short, a fairly strong background in the pauses, a rise in…

This has to be the best phono preamp I've ever heard for less than $200. The DIP switch settings below make this really useful, giving you some wiggle room when fine-tuning the sound for your particular cartridge. Very clear sound. IMHO this is a much better device than Shia Mani which sells for a little less but is well worth the extra money. Pro-Ject does a lot of cool stuff and I'm glad it exists. I have loved everything I have ever bought from them.

I bought the Pro-Ject Phono Box S2 primarily based on Revain reviews and other online reviews. The unit I received was clearly not working as there was a pronounced increased noise floor right out of the box. At first I thought the settings might be wrong for my MM cartridge but confirmed they were correct. The noise it added to the signal rendered it completely unusable. I chose to buy the phono preamp direct from Schiit as they guaranteed it would be tested and very happy with the results…

I've recently returned to vinyl after a 30 year hiatus. I bought a Pro-Ject Debut Carbon Evo last November and am very happy with it. My current setup consists of Evo, Yamaha a-s301 and Klipsh rp160m. As I built my vinyl collection, some records sounded better than others. That was to be expected, but even those that sounded better didn't fare well in terms of separation and fidelity. I was beginning to think that maybe the amp wasn't very good for playing vinyl, or that I was just getting used