December 2019

Great Audiophile Gift Ideas For The 2019 Holiday Season
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Pro-Ject Phono Box Ultra 500 Ltd. Ed. Phono Stage

  In early 2018, Pro-Ject celebrated the shipment of their 500,000th Phono Preamplifier with an exciting design challenge! This time around, the company desired to create an ultra low-noise phono preamp completely free from the damaging effects of environmental interference, while keeping the design compact and simple enough to fit in the same size chassis as Pro-Ject's S2 line of electronics. Enter the Pro-Ject Phono Box Ultra 500 Limited Edition Phono Stage ($399). After nearly a year of careful design and engineering work, Pro-Ject is proud to introduce the Phono Box Ultra 500 --- simply the best compact phono preamplifier the company has ever built. Only 500 pieces will be available worldwide so hurry and get yours before they're all gone!

The circuitry of the Phono box Ultra 500 begins with a fully discrete design that replaces OpAmps with carefully match transistor pairs in all critical gain stages. This IC-free design produces a huge, transparent sound, with the sort of deep bass slam that is normally associated with the best solid state amplifier designs. Careful parts selection, and a sophisticated multi-layer circuit board mean that signal paths can be kept extremely short which helps keep channel separation high, and signal to noise ratio vanishing low -- especially important when used with Low output Moving Coil Designs that require the full 63dB of gain the Phono Box Ultra 500 is capable of producing.

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The Phono Box Ultra is a special product and is limited to 500 pierces world wide. Each comes packaged in a beautiful wooden display box. Specifications are as follows:

impedance: 10/100/1k/47k Ohms
Input capacitance: 100/220 pF
Gain switch: 40/43/50/53/60/63 dB
Subsonic switch: -18dB @ 20Hz
Signal-to-noise ratio: - 89 dB V (MM)
THD: 0.00052%
RIAA accuracy: < 0.4 dB / 20 Hz - 20k Hz
In/Out sockets: 1 pair RCA connectors
Power consumption: 18 V / 80 mA
Outboard power supply: 18Volt DC/500 mA
Dimensions: 103 x 37 x 119 mm (WxHxD)
Color: Polished chrome
Weight: 700 g without power supply

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You can buy the Pro-Ject Phono Box Ultra 500 Limited Edition Phono Stage from Amazon.

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