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Pass Labs XP-12 Preamplifier

The new XP-12 starts with a new power supply. It uses an efficient toroidal design with both an electrostatic and Mu metal shield along with vacuum impregnating and epoxy fill. This gives us a very quiet transformer both electrically and mechanically.

The power supply circuitry itself is also lower noise and has additional filtering, a little more complicated but worth it.

The XP-12  uses the single stage volume control borrowed from the XS line preamp. This gives us one hundred 1 dB steps with lower noise and distortion while removing some signal path parts.

The gain circuitry continues to use our favorite transistors from Toshiba but has a larger higher biased output stage similar to the XS preamplifier auto bias. This makes longer and multiple cable runs easier to drive and gives us the advantage of simplifying our single ended output circuitry while increasing performance. Overall this makes for a quieter more neutral, musical and versatile control center for your system.

XP Line Level

The Pass Laboratories XP-10, XP-20 and XP-30 preamplifiers are the natural descendants to the long lived, highly acclaimed and successful X series of Pass Laboratories line-stages.

Dynamic sound
The XP preamplifiers sound more dynamic, bass lines are more clearly, cleanly and accurately delineated

Clear bass lines
cleanly and accurately delineated

Fine nuances and detail
instruments and voice are presented in a greatly refined spatial envelope and with better spectral balance.

SPECIFICATIONS

Power Consumption  =  30 Watts
Gain  = 9.3 dB Balanced
Frequency Response  =  +/-0.05 dB @ 10Hz to 20KHz; -1 dB @ 100KHz
Crosstalk  =  >100 dB
Residual Noise  =  15 uV @ 10 – 30 KHz
THD  =  <0.001 @ 1V 1KHz; Double shielded low noise toroid
Dimensions  =  17”w x 12.5”d x 4”h @ 20lbs