{"product_id":"musical-fidelity-x-lps-phonostage","title":"Musical Fidelity X-LPS Phonostage","description":"\u003cp\u003eHigh quality but affordable phono stage. The X-LPS is switchable between moving magnet and moving coil settings and so will work with the vast majority of phono cartridges. This one is in great condition, and comes with our regular three month warranty. In actual fact What Hi-Fi? magazine said in 2018 and I quote: “If you find a second-hand X-LP for a good price, don’t hesitate to take the plunge. You won’t regret it.”\u003cbr\u003e\nMusical Fidelity Say….\u003cbr\u003e\nThe new X-LPS MC\/MM phono stage is significantly better than the original X-LP, which it is replacing. Over the last three years, the original X-LP has become something of an industry standard. It offered excellent sound, fabulous build quality, reliability, and value for money. The X-LPS has been improved in all these areas.\u003cbr\u003e\nAt the heart of the X-LPS is Musical Fidelity’s custom-made integrated circuit, the SSMF 069, which is a significant step forward in performance. The design brief for the new X-LPS phono stage was: 1 Improved RIAA accuracy and lower noise; 2 Proper dynamic range and load-driving ability; 3 Neutrality and realism; 4 Excellent reliability, good build quality and competitive price.\u003cbr\u003e\nIt really is simple: realism and neutrality are closely related to the RIAA accuracy and noise. If these are not excellent, then it is simply not possible to retrieve what has been lost.\u003cbr\u003e\nThe X-LPS RIAA is extremely accurate from 20Hz to about 80kHz and beyond.\u003cbr\u003e\nThis is significant, since most RIAA correction curves stop at about 20Hz when unity gain is reached. In terms of the phono cartridge’s response, the electronics have an effective rising frequency response characteristic. Musical Fidelity has taken great pains to have a passive equalisation network above 20kHz. This means that the 6dB per octave characteristic equalisation curve continues, in theory, almost to infinity. Sibilance, harshness, and high frequency overload are simply abolished. In the low end, the accuracy is maintained down to at least 20Hz. This, coupled with a generously wide overload margin, results in a clean, extended, tight, fast bottom end.\u003cbr\u003e\nIn addition to excellent RIAA characteristics, the X-LPS has excellent ratios which allow the full transfer of information from the cartridge to the amplifier, with maximum fidelity (RIAA correction plus low distortion) and full dynamic range (low noise and wide overload margin).\u003cbr\u003e\nMusical Fidelity’s new integrated circuit, the SSMF 069, has given us great flexibility in achieving excellent overload margins (particularly low frequencies) and low distortion. Phono stages must also be able to drive the load presented by cables and amplifiers. The X-LPS output stage has been beefed up to increase its peak current ability and reduce its output impedance. It offers significant improvements over the older product in this vital, but under-appreciated, area.\u003cbr\u003e\nNeutrality is king. Not dry, harsh, dead, or dull. Not sweet, plummy, or warm. What it means is: real. Once we had achieved all our technical aims (RIAA, noise, distortion, overload, and load-driving ability), then we engineered the X-LPS phono stage so that it was truly neutral.\u003cbr\u003e\nThe X-Series components have set new benchmarks for reliability. The new X-LPS continues and improves upon this standard.\u003cbr\u003e\nThe elegant circuit board is housed in the non-microphonic, custom, Х-Series casework extrusion. The front panel is machined from heavy, mil. spec aluminium billet. The custom-extruded rubber feet nestle in the modified casework to further assist with microphonic rejection.\u003cbr\u003e\nWe feel that, with the X-LPS, Musical Fidelity has achieved our design brief for accurate RIAA over a huge bandwidth, extremely low noise, low distortion, and wide overload margins, with a realistic neutral sound, with high quality build both internally and of the casework.\u003cbr\u003e\nSpecifications:\u003cbr\u003e\nMM input\u003cbr\u003e\nSensitivity: 3 mV\u003cbr\u003e\nInput impedance: 47 KW\u003cbr\u003e\nTHD: \u0026lt; 0.01% @ 1 kHz, 350 mV out\u003cbr\u003e\nInput overload margin: 27 dB\u003cbr\u003e\nS\/N ratio: \u0026gt; 75 dB unweighted; \u0026gt; 80 dB “A” weighted\u003cbr\u003e\nMC input\u003cbr\u003e\nSensitivity: 350 mV\u003cbr\u003e\nInput impedance: 100 W\u003cbr\u003e\nTHD: \u0026lt; 0.01% @ 1 kHz, 350 mV out\u003cbr\u003e\nInput overload margin: 27 dB\u003cbr\u003e\nS\/N ratio: \u0026gt; 65 dB unweighted; \u0026gt; 72 dB “A” weighted\u003cbr\u003e\nGeneral\u003cbr\u003e\nRIAA accuracy: + 0.5 dB 20 Hz - 20 kHz\u003cbr\u003e\nPower requirement: 12 V AC 500 mA (via mains adaptor supplied)\u003cbr\u003e\nDimensions: 110 (W) x 220 (D) x 110 (H) mm (width and height include feet)\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"2ndhandhifi","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51193849282901,"sku":"SG03017","price":139.0,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0958\/1094\/5365\/files\/IMG_6955-scaled_d2f26721-f190-453a-af29-d260eed2a45b.jpg?v=1753888629","url":"https:\/\/2ndhandhifi.co.uk\/products\/musical-fidelity-x-lps-phonostage","provider":"2ndhandhifi.co.uk","version":"1.0","type":"link"}