Musical Fidelity LX2-LPS Phono Stage

The Musical Fidelity LX2-LPS is Musical Fidelity’s new baby. A high quality flexible MM/MC phono stage with adjustable impedance and excellent technical performance. Housed in beautifully detailed and handsome metalwork it is the epitome of understated high class elegance.

Musical Fidelity designed it for reference level listening so it is unerringly accurate and faithful to the input. Its purpose in life is to give you your music as its artists and producers intended: nothing more, and nothing less.

The critical elements of a phono stage are: accurate RIAA, low noise, low distortion, and overload margin.

Musical Fidelity’s RIAA correction is famous for its predictable and consistent accuracy. The Musical Fidelity  LX2-LPS accuracy is ±0.25dB 20Hz-20kHZ, also it extends to 45kHz so there is no overshoot ringing.
This results in absolutely clear high frequencies with no intermodulation or other distracting anomalies.

The noise ratio on both MM (better than 82dB) and MC (better than 72dB) is outstanding and virtually inaudible at any volume setting. That is unless you are a half deaf head-banger.But then I don’t expect that MF’s refinement and subtly would be quite your thing!
The Musical Fidelity LX LPS distortion is vanishingly low, typically less than 0.007% across the audio band.
Overload margin is exemplary. Simply put, it is virtually impossible for any real world cartridge to overload it.
As we all know nothing is perfect, but Musical Fidelity’s LX2-LPS gets very near.

Technical Specifications 

MM:
Input Impedance: 47 KΩ
Input Sensitivity: 3.0mV
Total Harmonic Distortion: 0.01%
Signal to Noise Ratio: >80dB
Input Overload Margin: 15dB
MC:
Input Impedance: 100 Ω
Input Sensitivity: 300μV
Total Harmonic Distortion: 0.01%
Signal to Noise Ratio: >70dB
Input Overload Margin: 22dB
General:
RIAA Response ±0.25dB
Power Requirement 12-24V 100mA regulated
Connections:
Moving Magnet Input: 1pr RCA sockets
Moving Magnet Loading: 1pr RCA sockets
Moving Coil Input: 1pr RCA sockets
Moving Coil Loading: 1pr RCA sockets
Power Input: DC Jack (1.3mm inner pin, outer diam. 3.5mm
Dimensions:
Length (including terminals): 197 mm
Width: 172 mm
Height (including feet): 46.5 mm
Weight:
(Unpacked / packed): 1.05 kg/ 1.50 kg