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XP-20 Owner’s Manual
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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