Experience with the Pass Labs XP-15 phono stage?


I'm thinking of replacing my ARC PH7 with the Pass Labs XP-15, to give me more flexibility to use low gain MCs.

Anyone made the switch to this phono stage?

Thanks for your help!
lanetim
Does anyone know of changes that were made to the XP-15 mid production?
It appears the Gain options changed along the way from
40,46,71,76 to 46,56,66,76. I can’t seem to find anything
on this. Thanks
Why don't you reach out to Pass and ask them?  Interesting if true.  I picked one up second hand recently and downloaded the manual from their web site which says 46, 56, 66, and 76.
Thanks Big, but thier spec sheet on line says different.  
I'm looking at a used unit here in Canada and trying to figure what's real. 
Also trying to figure are the balance outputs offering the three gain settings of 
56,66,76. I see on the XP17 the Balanced and Single line outputs are different
gain values. 😎
This will be my first external Phono stage so I don't know what to expect. 
The stage in my Mcintosh can't be that bad but the flexibility with an external
will be nice. Want to switch to a low output Grado with .5-1.0 mv.  
This Pass XP15 should be the ticket. 👍


Expect a really quiet background and lots of dynamics and detail. It’s a really nice unit. I can’t say how it compares to the McIntosh, but in general a purpose built stand alone phono stage, especially of this quality is going to exceed one included in another device.

Reach out to Pass. If you can get the serial number, they can probably tell you if it is one of the older units with the different gain settings (if that’s a thing) and answer any other questions you have. I had some questions about mine which I purchased second hand and they were very helpful.