{"id":166469,"date":"2023-08-03T19:45:19","date_gmt":"2023-08-03T18:45:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.techweekmag.com\/?p=166469"},"modified":"2023-10-18T05:56:30","modified_gmt":"2023-10-18T04:56:30","slug":"pro-ject-automat-a2-fully-automatic-turntable-unveiled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/hi-fi\/pro-ject-automat-a2-fully-automatic-turntable-unveiled\/","title":{"rendered":"Pro-Ject Automat A2: Fully automatic turntable unveiled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Fully automatic turntables are turntables that do most of the pre-listening work for you.\u00a0One press of a button is enough, the plate starts to rotate, and the tone arm lowers at the desired point.\u00a0All this is offered by\u00a0Pro\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0Ject\u00a0Automat\u00a0A\u00a02 &#8211; and a few other useful additional functions.\u00a0The Pro-Ject Automat A2 is not a successor to the cheaper\u00a0Automat A1\u00a0model , but expands the Pro-Ject line of automatic players.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/12_techweek.webp\" alt=\"Image\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Pro-Ject Automat A2 supports three rotation speeds &#8211; 33 \u2153, 45 and 78 rpm. Unlike the Automat A1, the rotation speed is no longer tied to the size of the record. This allows you to define the playback start point, i.e. the point at which the stylus hits the record, by yourself. Therefore, you will no longer have problems playing maxi singles at 45 rpm.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/13_techweek.webp\" alt=\"Image\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The machine here is completely mechanical and is disconnected from the system as soon as it is no longer needed, which guarantees fewer failures.\u00a0Pro-Ject has paid special attention to the separation of chassis and units, which are critical to sound.\u00a0An auxiliary vibration-isolated chassis is used here, on which the disk, drive and tonearm are mounted.\u00a0The aluminum tonearm tube has a larger diameter than the A1 model and is attached to a self-developed gimbal bearing that minimizes friction.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/14_techweek.webp\" alt=\"Image\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Pro-Ject Automat A2 comes with a factory-installed Ortofon\u00a02\u00a0M\u00a0Red\u00a0cartridge\u00a0(the A1 was equipped with a cheaper Ortofon OM10 cartridge).\u00a0The robust case made of thick MDF panels has excellent anti-resonance properties.\u00a0As with the Pro-Ject X8, the Pro-Ject Automat A2 comes with a balanced phono cable, but unlike the Automat A1, it does not come with a phono stage.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/15_techweek.webp\" alt=\"Image\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The Pro\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0Ject\u00a0Automat\u00a0A\u00a02\u00a0turntable\u00a0is already on sale in Europe.\u00a0The recommended retail price of the novelty is\u00a01,199 euros\u00a0.\u00a0This is noticeably more expensive than the price of the Automat A1 model, which is sold for 400 euros.\u00a0And among fully automatic players, such expensive models are rare.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fully automatic turntables are turntables that do most of the pre-listening work for you.\u00a0One press of a button is enough, the plate starts to rotate, and the tone arm lowers at the desired point.\u00a0All this is offered by\u00a0Pro\u00a0&#8211;\u00a0Ject\u00a0Automat\u00a0A\u00a02 &#8211; and a few other useful additional functions.\u00a0The Pro-Ject Automat A2 is not a successor to the [&hellip;] <a class=\"g1-link g1-link-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/hi-fi\/pro-ject-automat-a2-fully-automatic-turntable-unveiled\/\">More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10404,"featured_media":166470,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[642],"tags":[779],"class_list":["post-166469","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-hi-fi","tag-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166469","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/10404"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=166469"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/166469\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/166470"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=166469"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=166469"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.stereoindex.com\/tech\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=166469"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}