Pro-Ject Audio Systems is a European brand established over 25 years ago in 1991 and is renowned for designing excellent value turntables, tonearms, Box range hi-fi separates and vinyl accessories. Their current range includes many award winning turntables and critically acclaimed audio products.

Looking for a great value way of getting into vinyl? Pro-Ject offer some of the best value well-made turntables available, in a range that spans from the affordable Pro-ject Debut range to the high end Signature series.

Most noticeable models include the VT-E vertical turntable, Essential III Flexi-range and Classic. The Artist Series turntables exhibit collaborations with large names including The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, Guns N' Roses, Ringo Starr, Hard Rock Cafe and Parov Stelar.

Pro-Ject has also created special edition turntables for many industry leaders like the Vienna Philharmonic Orchestra or Ortofon for their jubilees.

Each model is designed to offer excellent sound quality. With an eye for future trends, Pro-Ject turntables are consistently awarded the highest praise and industry awards available and the brand has become equated with analogue excellence.

Pro-Ject's expanded Box range offers miniature hi-fi separates that include Phono Box phono stages, Pre Box preamps and Power Box power amplifiers in DS+, DS2, S2 and RS models alongside Stereo Box RS and Pro-ject MaiA (My Audiophile Integrated Amplifier), DACs, streamers and more.

Box range is designed to offer excellent value from a space saving design and carry the excellent sonic properties Pro-Ject products have become known for. The Pro-Ject range also includes vinyl accessories for turntable set-up, maintenance and spares for existing turntable models.

Pro-Ject was founded in 1991 with the goal to offer the best analogue experience for reasonable prices. In a time where the digital audio media had been on the rise, and vinyl was declared as outdated and dead, Heinz Lichtenegger kept his belief in turntables.

Pro-Ject uses only the best components for the price and manufactures handmade goods solely in Europe. They ship to more than eighty countries and have won multiple awards from the renowned HiFi press.

They produce all turntables from scratch in Czech Republic by hand and in house from the tiniest screw to the chassis. In Slovakia, Pro-Ject manufacture micro-sized premium audio components with lasting value offering customer’s satisfaction in all their audio needs.

Unlike CD players housed in a single box, dedicated CD transports take the CD reading mechanism and house it separately in one box, taking the pure digital information from the disc, and requiring an external DAC to then convert this information back into analogue and a form which can be fed to an amplifier. You can only connect them directly to your amplifier if your amplifier has a digital input.

If digital information is just a series of 1s and 0s, then why is one CD transport different to another, and why are they priced differently? The answer is jitter. Jitter when reading digital media such as a compact disc can have undesired effects on the quality of the audio achieved – often manifested through clicks, skipping and poor audio quality. Ensuring you have a good quality CD transport, delivering a good quality signal and disc read therefore, can have a significant impact on the sound quality you experience. Some manufacturers offer improved CD clocks as upgrades for your existing equipment that can also affect and reduce the presence and effect of jitter on your music.

Premium CD Transports use several technologies and isolation methods to evade jitter wholly however possible. These units aim to play the CD as precisely as possible without any risk of interference of other circuitry such as a DAC, and top end models strive hard to separate the transport from the power supply, through anti-resonance systems and damping techniques which avert tremors from the power supply that would disrupt the transport’s laser’s ability to reading the disc. Many high end models are intended to elude the automated loading trays of some CD players. As these mechanisms require power to eject and insert discs, avoiding these can prevent the need for additional circuitry and power, thus further isolating the CD reading mechanism from resonance.

Most CD transports will offer both coaxial and optical digital outputs, giving you flexibility to use existing cables and to pair with a range of DACs or integrated amplifiers with different optical inputs.