Review on CLEARAUDIO V2 PHONO PREAMPLIFIER Clearaudio by Josh Jeffries

Pros: Great musical sound, special resistor works in MM and MC mode, which means you can easily load your Audio Technica cart to 32k or 36k, where they are happy, super very quiet in MM mode even at maximum gain, volume control is handy for copying to portable recorders so you don't overload the input, great fit and first class workmanship!, very small Cons: permanently attached power cord, too loud Mode for my Denon 0.21mV, non-adjustable capacitance, the ground pin is very inconvenient. Not the last word in breadth, but still very good in that regard. Verdict: An excellent choice for high performance moving coil pickups and moving magnet carts that are good at 220pf or that sound good under 47k load. I also have an iFi iPhono Nano and while I can tell big differences between all my other phono stages, these two are almost indistinguishable at the same settings. iFi is cheaper, more configurable at boot, and much quieter in MC mode. This Clearaudio wins in terms of form factor (all ports on the back), looks and most importantly volume adjustment, so I paired it with the Ortofon MC3 Turbo, Denon DL-110 and Audio Technica AT150MLx on the Technics SL-. 1200MKII.