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Editor's Choice Award - ecoustics.com
"Recommended" Award - Hi-Fi Choice Magazine
"Highly Recommended" Award - stereonet.com
Updated, Enhanced, Better than Ever Compact Phono Stage
The original Phono Box S was one of Pro-Ject's bestselling Box Series products, offering unrivalled sonics and versatility at a very affordable price. When Pro-Ject set to work started creating its successor, Phono Box S2, the new MM/MC phono stage had to have the same versatility, but the engineering team wanted to make the Phono Box's great sound even better.
Phono Box S2 features incredible micro-details, dynamics, and precision, along with a soundstage that's usually only found in much more expensive products. The new S2 style housing takes maximum advantage of an aluminum/metal sandwich construction that not only offers highest aesthetics but also thoroughly protects the sensitive circuitry from unwanted electromagnetic interferences and vibrations. This guarantees an undisturbed listening experience without worries.
Award-Winning Performance
England's Hi-Fi Choice magazine honored the S2 by giving it a "Recommended" award.
"Nick Drake’s Pink Moon sounds wonderfully intimate and lifelike and is helped, once again, by the Pro-Ject’s ability to make voices and instruments sound highly natural and convincing."
"With a consistently impressive performance and the ability to handle upmarket cartridges, this is a flexible and attractive phono stage that deserves to be high on any audition shortlist at the price."
Meanwhile, England's What Hi-Fi? magazine described it as "solid and relatively heavy," with a "muscular bass" that is "powerful yet controlled."
Editor's Choice Award
"It definitely gets out of the way and allows one to hear the cartridge with a very neutral tonal balance, excellent detail, and a very clean sounding top end," observes Ian White at ecoustics.com, which gave the S2 an Editor's Choice Award.
"The treble has sufficient bite and you might discover that your cartridge has greater top end sparkle than you previously thought."
Huge Performance in a Compact Box
The sonic quality of the Phono Box S2 is impressive. It makes a big improvement over the built-in phono stage on many amps and receivers and offers a perfect upgrade for most analog hi-fi systems. Carefully selected amplifier modules and audiophile-grade polypropylene capacitors make it possible to enjoy your valuable vinyl collection like never before!
A Wide Range of Setting Parameters
With a wide range of setting parameters, the Pro-Ject Phono Box S can meet the needs of almost any MM moving magnet or MC moving coil phono cartridge on the market. It offers switchable input impedance/capacitance settings and four adjustable gain levels. A switchable subsonic filter prevents your amplifier and speakers from picking up ultra-low rumble below 20 Hz.
Phono Box S was considered the best option of all entry-level phono stages by many acclaimed hi-fi magazines, Phono Box S2 is sure to follow its predecessor's footsteps and will set new standards at this price point!
"Highly Recommended"
"The Pro-Ject Phono Box S2 is an authentic audio bargain deserving of much more than an entry-level moving magnet or moving coil cartridges. At its price, it's likely to have few peers and is highly recommended," reports Peter Familari, stereonet.com, May 7, 2019.
"Our experience with the Phono Box S2 was great. It delivered subtle yet fantastic audio, which proves that it’s an upgrade from the previous Phono Box S. All of these were more than what we had expected from a low-budget phono amp," notes latestintech.com.
