Radial J33 2-Channel Active Turntable Preamp Direct Box

If you have a collection of vinyl that you're looking to bounce over to the digital domain or simply route through a line-level mixer or board, the J33 is the device you want the audio passing through to get it there.Set-up is simple enough and the build quality on Radial's boxes are nothing short of tank-link.Dubbing vinyl over from a Technics 1210 through the J33 and a Focusrite 2i2 box into Sound Forge has yielded nothing but A+ results so far. A little vinyl cleaner when needed and a quality cartridge and you're good to go.Not cheap but the J33's the single best device of its type around these days.

Nice unit, sounds great, easy to hookup and use, quiet. Really well-built.Using with my Denon DP37F turntable (circa 1986) and Denon home theater receiver (circa 2012),but I like the other input/output options so I can use it with my Mackie mixer (XLR) and pretty much anything else.

Clear and vibrant sound, no hum, XLR, manual says no need to turn it off, can't be better

Small amp, huge sound!

Nice and clean sound! Use it for regullar Technics belt TT to Oppo HA-1 via XLR and it sounds clean. Feels like it has no coloring effect.

I got this on a hunch that it would dust the sound quality of a turntable through a crappy vestax mixer and I was right. Sounds incredible. I'm buying another one and getting a custom passive mixer!

I bought mine about 2 years ago.! I thought it sounded good, but to some like me, will hear the difference compared to the sound of a Rane TTM56-S Mixer Preamp.This is what I got.Rane TTM56-sOrtofon 2M BlueTechnics 1200mkllFocusrite pro 40The radial j33 sounds good very quiet. But... It lacks on the low end.. The mids where the snapping of a snare drum usually is has been tamed or reduced.. To the the high frequencies have a bit of a peak at 16khz so it makes the sound just a little bit piercing with reduced detail and body.. Mine has an issue with the other outputs because they all sound mono except for the XRL they work well.. Not sure if it's a design flaw or I just got a bad unit. After all that time I spent using the unit archiving records and thinking I was getting the best results, I was wrong The Rane preamps sound warmer, fuller drums have a aw some punch and lifelike sound to them, the high frequencies are very detail and with full detail.. But the only issue to me is the 60hz Hum that analog gear has.. But even with the quietest passages you can't hear it because it's bellow the SNR of a vinyl recording. Over all I found the sound a Rane Dj mixer Phono Preamp to have a faithful and more dynamic reproduction of a vinyl recording..

I don't know why this unit is largely ignored by the audiophile press.I've got my beloved original AR XA table plugged into it, as my'06-era A/V Receiver lacks a phono stage. Clean and naturalsounding, with great connectivity options, and it's built like a tank. Icouldn't be happier.