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Musical Fidelity LX2-LPS £199

The LX2-LPS offers amplification for both moving-magnet and moving-coil cartridges–rare at this price. This is a classy little product; naturally, as a phono amp, its appearance is clean cut–this is a game played very much behind closed doors–but its build is solid and its symmetry pleasing.

Simply put, this is a Musical Fidelity product that sounds precisely like most Musical Fidelity products, and in a tremendously positive way.

Using a Goldring 2500 moving-magnet cartridge, as we do for most of our testing, we play Aphex Twin’s Selected Ambient Works 85-92 and relish the LX2-LPS’s spacious and full-bodied presentation. There’s a lot of low end, which warms up the performance noticeably but steers clear of becoming invasive or overly corpulent. Lewis’s L’Amour, for example, sounds as if it were produced specifically to be played on kit such as this.

Body, warmth and expression

The LX2-LPS’s creamy full-bodied presentation buoys meandering piano lines and luscious synth