Like its predecessors, the Black Cube II makes virtually all MM and MC cartridges available on the market shine and extracts the full sound spectrum of the original recording from your favorite music. Thanks to the extensively configurable bass filter with sixteen different settings, the Black Cube II can be customized to your sound preferences. Its incomparable dynamics will make you rediscover old and new recordings – just like the first time!
Your entry into a new world of sound
The highly accurate, passive RIAA filter network of the Black Cube II is located between two linear amplification stages and is realized with the help of high-quality, impulse-resistant polypropylene film capacitors with tight tolerance. This phono stage thus offers you the impressive, unadulterated sound image of the upper class of devices at an attractive entry-level price.
The new classic features a specially developed power supply for high headroom. The housing of the Black Cube II, made of non-magnetic material (aluminum), is mechanically damped in the lid. The professional input stages of the latest generation ensure particularly precise, low-noise and powerful reproduction. In the audio section, there are additional modules for effective hum, HF, and noise voltage suppression. Its double-sided audio board allows for optimized trace routing for particularly interference-free operation.
The Black Cube II can be flexibly adapted to almost any system: Per channel, there is a slot for solder-free mounting of a selectable impedance, and there is also an additional, directly effective hard-wire slot.
Visually, too, the Black Cube II, with its high-quality front panel options (silver, black or chrome), together with Linear & Co., cuts a fine figure in your hi-fi rack – the ideal entry into this class of devices.
Technical data
| Black Cube II | |
| Sensitivity for output level 775 mV/ 0 dB (with activated high gain switch) Gain 1 kHz Maximum input level 1 kHz Signal to noise ratio (RMS unweighted) |
MM: 3.8 mV/1 kHz; MC: 0.38 mV/1 kHz MM: 46 dB; MC: 66 dB MM: 45 mV; MC: 4,5 mV MM: 71 dB; MC: 63 dB |
| Gain | 36 dB, 46 dB, 56 dB, 66 dB |
| Channel separation | > 85 dB at 10 kHz |
| Input impedance | 47 kohms, 1 kohm, 100 ohms 1 x custom load 1 x hardwire slot |
| Output impedance | 47 ohms |
| Input capacitance | 100 pF |
| Channel mismatch | typ. 0.5 dB |
| Bass filter | 16 settings between 7 Hz and app. 90 Hz |
| Power consumption | < 3 W |
| Outer dimensions W x D x H | Audio section: 114 mm x 124 mm 50 mm Power supply: 70 mm x 115 mm x 55 mm |
| Weight | Audio section incl. cable to power supply: 0.65 kg netto Power supply: 0.3 kg netto |
