The XP-20 is an ultra high quality line-stage audio preamplifier featuring an improved hand held remote control and external power supply electrically isolated from the analog circuits of the preamplifier in a cosmetically matched second chassis.
The XP-20 like all Pass Laboratories products attempts to minimize the number of components in the signal path, and yet retain exemplary objective performance specifications. This pre-amplifier 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-20 along with the XP-10 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 since their introduction in 1997…. justifiably
so. More importantly they have provided a solid foundation from which the current and newest product has evolved.
These new pre-amp offerings from Pass Laboratories objectively sound and measure significantly better than their immediate predecessors. These are the finest pre-amplifiers Pass Laboratories has built to date, without question! Thank you for your purchase of the XP-20.
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,
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