The XP-10 is an ultra high quality line-stage audio preamplifier featuring remote control and internal power supply. The XP-10 minimizes the number of components in the signal path, and yet retains exemplary objective performance specifications. It pushes the edge of the art by exploring how much subjective quality is obtainable with unique circuit elements applied in innovative ways.
The Pass Laboratories XP-10 along with the XP-20 pre-amplifiers are the natural descendants to the highly acclaimed and successful X series of Pass Laboratories line-stages represented by models X0.2, X1 and X2.5.
The X series pre-amplifiers have received many highly respected and well-deserved accolades over the past 11 years…. justifiably so. More
importantly they have provided a solid foundation from which the current and newest product has evolved.
The new XP series pre-amplifiers are more true to state of the art recordings than our previous product. Given quality recordings, these pre-amplifiers sound more dynamic, bass lines are more clearly, cleanly, and accurately delineated, helping eliminate un-necessary one note bass; instruments and voice are presented in a more refined spatial envelope, and with better spectral balance. Fine nuances and details, which frequently go un-noticed, now become apparent -- even in loud and highly complex musical passages.
The simple truth is that a decade of knowledge and experience gained, coupled with new component technology, has enabled both enhanced performance and listening satisfaction over the building blocks we had available when the original X series pre-amplifiers came to market. Pass Laboratories has not been shy about taking advantage of these circuit innovations and new components in these new pre-amplifiers. You will hear, and appreciate, these significant sonic improvements in the XP series product.
Collectively, audiophiles tend to listen quite a bit differently today, than they did when the original X preamps were created, and the XP line of product have all been designed to reflect those changes in listening style.
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