Allen & Heath Xone:23C

Attention audiophiles: for no money you can buy two very good moving magnet phono preamps with adjustable gain, and a four-way full duplex 96 kHz 24 bit USB ADDA converter with which you can also record with a sound quality that leaves nothing to be desired. The ideal solution for digitizing your vinyl or other analog sources. In hi-fi terms you pay at least double for this. I know and use Allen and Heath professional mixing consoles both analog and digital and that is top class equipment, especially the digital desks. This DJ mixing desk is top class, both digital and analog. However, there are some drawbacks that you should consider if you can live with them. For example, you cannot adjust the volume of the digital input and output on the mixing desk. The digital input cannot be switched off either, which makes pre-listening difficult. DJs think about it for a moment. If you turn the gain of an analog input all the way down, a small signal will still come in, so even with the master all the way up, there's still a little output. You can insert an external effect, this is done by pressing the EXT On button and the FILTER button of the relevant channel, unfortunately this gives an audible pop, keep fader closed and filter first. The LED meter is of inferior quality, you have to be careful with the input signal, otherwise you risk distortion. The X fader and the microphone input cannot be switched off. The sensitivity of the moving magnet phono inputs is adjusted to high output DJ elements, a hi-fi element of about 5mV cannot fully control the input, apparently you can increase the sensitivity by 6dB by soldering a bridge inside the device, how that I don't know about the warranty. I use the mixing desk purely for hi-fi purposes, then these drawbacks do not weigh heavily because the sound of the mixing desk is warm and very dynamic. Recordings both analog and digital are superb.

If you are looking for a 2 channel mixer for professional use: look no further because it doesn't get any better than this.

The only downside is that the built-in sound card is unfortunately not compatible with software other than MixVibes (included). Using timecode vinyl from tractor is therefore not possible and mixvibes no longer sells timecode records.