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    Little box, big performance

    Apr 28, 2019 5 minutes
    Stephen Dawson

    Pro-Ject terms this product a ‘digital micro preamplifier’... we would be more prosaic, and call it a DAC/headphone amp, although with three inputs and an output under volume control, preamplifier it certainly is as well. It’s a small thing, larger than life in our picture above, being just 103mm wide, 37mm tall and 122mm deep… which includes the volume/control knob on the front. It weighs just 366 grams. Yet my goodness, it does enough for both its size and its price. Some might even call it overkill — but it overkills in the right way, and does so without the usual monetary penalty.

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    Pro-Ject is, of course, best known for its turntables, and primarily for the quality of those turntables and their value for money at whatever given price level. But it has also run a nice line in little

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