Pro-Ject Audio Systems has always been characterized by its obsession with offering extreme musicality at the best price in its different ranges of turntables, with the aim of putting High End audio within reach of all budgets. The new challenge of the Austrian company founded in 1991 is now to progressively introduce its concept of balanced connection “True Balanced Connection” in particularly representative models from its extensive catalogue. Now it’s Debut PRO’s turn, which, having become Debut PRO Ballows the discerning amateur equipped with a compatible phono preamplifier (the Pro-Ject Phono Box S3 B, Phono Box DS3 B and Tube Box DS3 B are ideal in this regard) to take advantage of the renowned advantages of symmetrical connectionespecially the noise reduction and the corresponding increase in the signal-to-noise ratio and the dynamic range. In the purely mechanical field, first of all, a 8’6” arm one-piece, manufactured in an extremely rigid and carefully cushioned aluminum and carbon fiber sandwich structure, which ensures the perfect tracking of the disc groove.
On the other hand, the possibility of adjust the vertical reading angle (VTA) and the azimuthas well as the height of the entire assembly, provides the user with the possibility of adapt the arm to changes in height (and using a wide range of mats and pickup capsules), guaranteeing the best possible sound quality. Another relevant engineering element of the Debut PRO B is the nickel finish of the aluminum pieces it incorporates, the result of a complex process that allows us to obtain very high quality components sustainably and thus avoid the use of plastics and similar materials that age over time. As is the norm in turntables signed by Pro-Ject, the Debut PRO B uses belt drive, to which we must add a elaborate engine suspension which ensures perfect decoupling between it and the reading system. For its part, the plate itself is built in casting aluminum and includes a TPE ring (thermoplastic elastomer) on its inner side, in order to absorb possible resonances and minimize crying and trembling.
As for the chassis, the usual MDF with anti-resonance treatment by Pro-Ject. The Debut PRO B is completed with the Pick it PRO Balanceda moving magnet (MM) pickup capsule with a markedly audiophile Specifically optimized for balanced connection. Let us point out in this sense that the Pro-Ject engineers They fine-tuned said transducer, thoroughly working on each of its key ingredients (needle, cantilever, cantilever suspension, coil winding material, number of windings, signal generator) to provide a most vivid, detailed and robust sound possible. In addition, since the Pick it PRO Balanced factory presetthe owner only has to worry about connecting the Pro-Ject to its associated electronics using the balanced phono output with mini-XLR mini jack provided for this purpose.
