Voted "Best Turntable of 2024-2025" by the prestigious Expert Imaging and Sound Association, better known by its acronym EISA, and integrated, as its name suggests, into the "X Line" at Pro-Ject, the XA B combines audiophile-grade performance, unique aesthetics and affordability.
A transparent methacrylate chassis gives this vinyl player an unquestionable appeal, to the point of giving the impression that the technical components of the set seem to float on an almost invisible base.
What comes next is an opulent cast aluminium platter weighing 1.7 kg, precision-balanced to maximise rotational stability and, as always at Pro-Ject, a 254 mm high quality reading arm entirely designed and manufactured in-house by the Austrian brand.
The icing on the cake is a repertoire of adjustments that allow the user to act not only on the vertical tracking angle (VTA) and an innovative anti-skating scheme that adapts to the position of the groove, but also on the azimuth, thus allowing full use to be made of the possibilities of the capsule used.
Finally, a fundamental aspect of this turntable should be highlighted: the addition of balanced connectivity, topped off in this case by the incorporation (and factory setting) of the Pick it PRO Balanced, a moving magnet capsule specifically conceived by Pro-Ject to get the most out of it.
Features:
- Very high performance turntable with an exceptional price/performance ratio.
- Compatible with the "True Balanced Connection".
- Transparent methacrylate chassis.
- Cast aluminium platter with internal TPE damping.
- Belt drive with synchronous motor powered by direct current.
- Electronic speed control (33 and 45).
- Height adjustable metal decoupling feet.
- One-piece 10" (254 mm) aluminium arm.
- Readout arm with VTA, anti-slip and azimuth adjustments.
- Adaptive anti-skating adjustment.
- Supplied with a dedicated Pick it PRO Balanced pick-up capsule.
- Equipped with a balanced phono output with mini-XLR connector.
- Supplied with a semi-balanced connection cable.
- Handmade in the European Union.
- Dimensions (with lid closed): 460 x 130 x 340 mm (W x H x D).
- Weight: 6.3 kg
Note: To obtain a fully balanced sound, this turntable must be connected via a mini-XLR cable to a phono pre-amp with balanced input and output and via another set of XLR cables to an amplifier with balanced XLR inputs. Please contact us to obtain the components you need to complement this turntable at a special price.
