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Musical Fidelity LX2 LPS Phono Preamplifier - Black

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The LX2-LPS is Musical Fidelity's high quality flexible MM/MC phono stage with adjustable impedance and excellent technical performance.

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    "Five Stars" – What Hi-fi? Magazine


    Beautiful Performance, High Class Elegant Design

    The LX2-LPS is Musical Fidelity's brand new baby. It is a high quality flexible MM/MC phono stage with adjustable impedance and excellent technical performance. Housed in beautifully detailed and handsome metalwork, it is the epitome of understated high class elegance.

    Musical Fidelity designed this phono stage for reference level listening, so it is unerringly accurate and faithful to the input. Its purpose in life is to give you your music as its artists and producers intended: nothing more, and nothing less.

    England's What Hi-fi? magazine was so taken with the LX2-LPS that it gave the component its top rating of Five Stars. "The LX2-LPS’s creamy full-bodied presentation buoys meandering piano lines and luscious synth pads, with the vocal presented gorgeously with a combination of warmth and dulcet expression that suits Lewis’s croon to a tee," notes the magazine."It delivers a more engaging performance, and one that comfortably validates a five-star review."

    Killer Technical Performance

    The critical elements of a phono stage are accurate RIAA, low noise, low distortion, and overload margin. Musical Fidelity paid meticulous attention to all of these elements when designing the LX2-LPS.

    You get killer technical performance with the LX2-LPS. Musical Fidelity's RIAA correction is famous for its predictable and consistent accuracy. The LX2-LPS accuracy is ±0.25dB 20 Hz - 20 kHz, and it extends to 45 kHz, so there is no overshoot ringing. This results in absolutely clear high frequencies with no intermodulation or other distracting anomalies.

    The noise ratio on both MM (better than 82dB) and MC (better than 72dB) is outstanding and virtually inaudible at any volume setting. "That is unless you are a half deaf head-banger," notes Musical Fidelity's founder and CEO Antony Michaelson. "But then I don't expect that MF's refinement and subtly would be quite your thing!"

    The LX2-LPS distortion is vanishingly low, typically less than 0.007% across the audio band. Overload margin is exemplary. Simply put, it is virtually impossible for any real world cartridge to overload it. "As we all know nothing is perfect, but the LX2-LPS gets very near," notes Antony Michaelson.

    Product Features

    Overview

    • Moving Magnet/Moving Coil phono preamp
    • Adjustable impedance
    • Detailed and handsome metalwork housing
    • Accurate RIAA
    • Low noise
    • Low distortion
    • Low overload margin

    Connections

    • Moving Magnet Input: 1pr RCA jacks
    • Moving Magnet Loading: 1pr RCA jacks
    • Moving Coil Input: 1pr RCA jacks
    • Moving Coil Loading: 1pr RCA jacks
    • Power Input: DC Jack (1.3mm inner pin, outer diam. 3.5mm)

    Product Specs

    MM

    • Input Impedance: 47 KΩ
    • Input Sensitivity: 3.0mV
    • Total Harmonic Distortion: 0.01%
    • Signal to Noise Ratio: >80dB
    • Input Overload Margin: 15dB

    MC

    • Input Impedance: 100 Ω
    • Input Sensitivity: 300μV
    • Total Harmonic Distortion: 0.01%
    • Signal to Noise Ratio: >70dB
    • Input Overload Margin: 22dB

    General

    • RIAA Response: ±0.25dB
    • Power Requirement: 12-24V 100mA regulated
    • Dimensions: 6.77" wide,7.75" deep (including terminals), 1.83" high (including feet)
    • Weight: 2.31 lbs.

    "With the LX2-LPS, Musical Fidelity has a very attractive phono preamplifier in its range. Based on the lowest noise, it delivers a performance that is significantly higher than what the price tag should allow, both via the MC and MM branches. This makes it particularly suitable for listeners who are dissatisfied with the sound of the built-in phono preamplifier in the amplifier or receiver and of course all newcomers and newcomers, for whom the purchase of the LX2-LPS will be a small, but tonal but a big step."

    - Olaf Sturm, i-fidelity.net, May 4, 2020


    "Five Stars" – What Hi-fi? Magazine

    "The LX2-LPS’s creamy full-bodied presentation buoys meandering piano lines and luscious synth pads, with the vocal presented gorgeously with a combination of warmth and dulcet expression that suits Lewis’s croon to a tee."

    "It delivers a more engaging performance, and one that comfortably validates a five-star review."

    - England's What Hi-fi? magazine, January 28, 2019

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