ART DJ Pre II

Very good value preamp

Great product. Only small con is that the blue power LED is very bright.

Great for the money

I use this on my turntable as a preamp and volume control. Great clarity and no issues over the last few months of use. Great value!

Good entry phono pre-amp with GAIN knob.

It's one of the cheapests phono preamps you can get with a gain knob. I choose it for that reason, however I thought it was a volume knob, and those are different things. However it was still useful considering I had no knob (or at least «easy to reach» knob) to control loudness in my first setup, where I had the turntable conected to this and then directly to active speakers. The gain knob only lets you adjust the strenght of the signal within a certain range. Doesn't let you, for example bring the sound to a «mute».

Either way I still have it in my current setup, and even though a better one can impact the sound quality, I find this one perfect enough, as there are other components (like the speakers and the needle) that have a much greater impact in the final result.

A decent, full-featured phono preamp

Disclaimer: I am not an audiophile.

I bought the ART DJ Pre II for a relatively specific reason - both my record player and my AppleTV (via a bluetooth receiver) were outputting directly to my living room speakers, and the record player signal was MUCH quieter than the AppleTV, even with the AppleTV turned all the way down.

Because of this, each time that I wanted to play a record I would have to go over and manually turn UP the volume. And afterwards, you would have to remember to turn it back down - otherwise the AppleTV would be ear-shatteringly loud! Quite an annoying situation.

The ART DJ Pre II provided a very flexible and clear way of boosting the phono signal to match the volume of the AppleTV. Unlike many other phono preamps, this one has an easy gain knob that lets you dial in a specific amount of amplification.

Because of this, it was incredibly easy to manually adjust it so the two signal strengths roughly matched.

No more shockingly loud movies from the AppleTV! No more putting on a record and straining to hear anything. Finally everything was in balance.

So in summary, the plus points:

1. Easy to setup

2. Easy to use (volume adjustment is very nice)

3. Sounds like a clean preamp, not coloring the sound in a detectable way

4. Inexpensive

All in all, I would heartily recommend this preamp - the volume knob alone makes it worth buying.

Lack of on/off button!

Overall the product is of high quality. Heavy and durable with many features but the only drawback is the missing of an on/off button.

Overall i highly reccomend the product as it seems that will last for many many years!

Not as good as expected

I bought this for a Stanton ST.150 Mk2 for use in my home studio as I thought it would be better than the deck's internal preamp but this wasn't the case. Regardless of input level or capacitance settings the bass response was weaker and the treble too bright with my Ortofon 2M Red cartridge. The Stanton's own preamp is noticeably superior.

It might be an improvement on some internal preamps and good with other cartridges or for live use perhaps.

really solid construction and great sound , i wanted a record player in my studio without having to install an amplifier with a phono input . The ART DJ pre does the job

Love this DJ preamp

Have been using it for years now and it still handles very well!

Preamp for turntable

I purchased this unit to power a technics 1200 into an allen and heath zed 10 fx.

It has a connection for the RCA cable and a ground on the back. there is a single knob for gain / volume and when it gets too loud the led changed from blue to red which i think is a nice feature.

The unit is solid and made of robust metal. i would recommend this unit for anyone looking for a good preamp to run a turntable into a mixing desk or similar.

Works well

Does what it should! Sounds good to me!