★Carried & Installed

Pro-Ject turntables · Kansas City.

IntegrateIT carries and installs Pro-Ject across the Kansas City metro— a turntable and phono preamp in a listening room, an amplifier or streaming amplifier beside them, and the wiring and control that make vinyl one source among the others in the house. One precision first: Pro-Ject is a line we carry and install under distribution, not one we hold our own dealer agreement on, so we do not call ourselves an authorized Pro-Ject dealer. What we are is the people who choose the right pieces for the room, set them up properly, and commission what we install. Phone: (913) 804-7575 or office@integrateit.tech.

What we carry and install from Pro-Ject

Pro-Ject’s site describes the range as turntables and hifi stereo components since 1991, and sorts it into turntables, tonearms, cartridges, hifi electronics, hifi sets, cables and accessories. The families below are the ones listed on Pro-Ject’s own site, in its own spelling. We specify, install and commission to order.

• Turntables, in named lines. Pro-Ject’s turntable page groups its models into the Automat, E, Vertical, Juke Box, T, Debut, RPM, X and Signature lines. The page lists the Automat models as fully automatic, the E1.2 and the vertical VT-E as plug and play, and the Juke Box models as all-in-one turntable systems; the Debut EVO 2, the RPM 1 Carbon through RPM 10 Carbon, the X1 B, X2 B and X8 B, the Xtension 9, 10 and 12 Evolution and the Signature 10 and Signature 12.2 are the ones to talk about when the record player is the centre of a media room or listening room.
• Balanced turntables. Pro-Ject lists a group of turntables as True Balanced or True Balanced Ready, among them the Debut PRO B and the X line’s B models, with the Debut PRO S Balanced alongside, and lists matching balanced phono stages, a balanced cartridge (the Pick it PRO Balanced) and balanced headphone amplifiers. A balanced signal only stays balanced if every component after it takes balanced connections, so we read the back panel of the phono stage and the amplifier before the turntable is specified.
• Cartridges and tonearms. Pro-Ject lists the Pick it cartridges as moving-magnet and moving-coil types: the Pick it MM 5, Pick it PRO, Pick MM EVO, Pick it Mono and Pick it MM E, then the Pick it MC1, MC2, MC3 and MC9. Tonearms are a category of their own, and Pro-Ject’s home page points to its Evo tonearms. Arm and cartridge are chosen with the turntable, not afterwards.
• Phono stages and step-up transformers. The Phono Box E, Phono Box MM, Phono Box, Phono Box S2, Phono Box S2 Ultra and Phono Box RS2; the valve (tube) models Tube Box E and Tube Box S2; the S3 B and DS3 B models (Phono Box S3 B, Tube Box S3 B, Phono Box DS3 B and Tube Box DS3 B), several of them listed as balanced; the MC Step Up Box S3 and DS3 B; and the Vinyl NRS Box S3, which Pro-Ject lists as a vinyl DSP processor. The phono stage has to suit the cartridge, which is the first question we ask.
• Amplifiers, DACs, CD players and streamers. Pro-Ject lists preamplifiers (Pre Box), power amplifiers (Amp Box, including the Amp Box S3 CI, which it describes as a custom-integration power amp), integrated amplifiers (Stereo Box, MaiA, Uni Box S3), DACs (DAC Box), CD players (CD Box) and network streamers (Stream Box). The Stream Box S2 is listed with Spotify Connect, TIDAL and internet radio and multi-room capability, which is how a stereo room joins a whole-house audio system.
• Headphone electronics, power supplies and remotes. The Head Box E, Head Box S2, Head Box S3 B and Head Box DS3 B; linear power supplies for the turntable, the phono stage and the amplifiers (the Power Box range); and the Control it remotes. The power supplies are a design decision, not an afterthought, and are planned for at the start.

How we put Pro-Ject into a room

A turntable is the one source in a house that cares about the furniture it stands on, and Pro-Ject’s range is wide enough that the choice of line matters as much as the install. These are the parts of the job that decide whether it works.

• Choose the line by how the room is used. A plug-and-play or Automat model suits a room where records are played now and then; the Debut, RPM, X, Xtension and Signature lines suit a room built around listening. We ask who will use it and how often before we draw anything.
• Match the phono preamp to the cartridge. Moving magnet or moving coil, and the gain and loading the cartridge needs, decide which of the Phono Box or Tube Box models is right. We set it up against the cartridge maker’s published figures and check it against a record we know.
• Place and cable it properly. A solid, level surface away from the speakers and the subwoofer, short phono leads kept apart from power cords, and a dedicated outlet. On a house still being framed that is a prewire decision for our new-construction low-voltage walk.
• Put it on the control system. Power and input selection sit on the same touch panel or remote as the rest of the house, through the control system already in place, and a streamer or streaming amplifier joins the multi-room system alongside the turntable. The record still has to be turned over by hand.
• Documentation. Model and serial numbers, cartridge fitted and the date the stylus went on, input map and control settings land in your portal with the rest of the project record.

Where Pro-Ject sits beside the other lines we carry

Pro-Ject is the wide-catalogue answer: more turntable lines, and a long run of phono stages, amplifiers, DACs and streamers beside them. The other turntable line on our roster is Rega, which lists its Planar turntables together with arms, cartridges, phono stages and amplifiers of its own — look there if that family is the one you are weighing. When one amplifier has to feed more than one room, NAD’s Custom Install series is the rack line built for it. And Schiit is the roster line for amplification and DACs, which is where to look for a separate DAC or amplifier beside the turntable.

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