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; perhaps 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 like the Xs preamplifier’s auto bias. This makes longer and multiple cable runs easier to drive and provides 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.

Specifications
- Overall Gain: 9.3dB Balanced
- Volume steps: 99
- Remote: Yes
- Inputs: 5
- Outputs: 2
- Frequency Response:  +/- 0.05dB, 10Hz to 20KHz
- CMRR: -60 dB, 1 kHz
- Cross-talk:  >100dB
- Signal to Noise Ratio:  < 0.001 @ 1V 1Khz
- Power Consumption:  30 watts
- Number of chassis:  1
- Dimensions, Chassis: 17”W x 12”D x 4”H
- Weight (LBS): 20
- Shipping Box Dim: 23 x 18 x 10
- Shipping Weight: (LBS) 27