Channel D Lino C vs. Sutherland Little Loco

Well chakster try to look modest in comparison to Raul. In particular
reg. his hearing capabilities. This means that Halcro or Dover
don't need to fear critical remarks about their system all the way
from (big) Rusian Fedaration. However he deed not answer the
question which ''darlings'' are his ''real darlings''. As far as I know
he collects: cartridges, TT's, tonearms, records and (SILVER)
 SUT's.
Then we don't have anymore the ''cart of the week'' as in the past
but ''only'' cart of the month. The other question is how chakster
get the ''capital'' in Marx sense to buy all this stuff? What he said
to me is to me familiar from the first Dutch economist. Their idea
how to become rich nation was: ''buy cheap and sell expensive''. 
Alas Ricardo en Smit asked the question: ''what will be the case if
we all try to do this''? The Dutch forget to mention monopoly position
of their VOC company . (Re) inforced with wooden ships but
bronzen cannons.  The ''added enigma'' is why he needs even
silver SUT's next to his best ever phono-pre? 

@saburo Thank you for your cartridge recommendations. ZYX U Optimum is a bit out of my range. When I had the Ultimate 100, the ZYX dealer recommended a Ultimate Omega as the next jump in SQ. The Benz Ebony TR is new to me.
Correct me if I am wrong, but you have owned both a early Lino and a BMC MCCI and you feel the BMC to be a step above? Would you elaborate?

@chakster Many thanks for you detailed reply. I have completely misrepresented, and severely underestimated your extensive collections of MM and MC. The MC list you posted will be a guide to me. Though I am curious, there are a few in the list, EMT in particular, with internal impedance in the teens, I think there is another in the twenty’s range. They work with the 47 Labs unit? 

@chakster Many thanks for you detailed reply. I have completely misrepresented, and severely underestimated your extensive collections of MM and MC. The MC list you posted will be a guide to me. Though I am curious, there are a few in the list, EMT in particular, with internal impedance in the teens, I think there is another in the twenty’s range. They work with the 47 Labs unit?

Since it was recommended for low impedance cartridge I use it only with low impedance cartridges (under 5 Ohm) and it's excellent. At the moment my FR-7f cartridge (on FR-66fx tonearm) connected to 47 Labs Phono Cube and the sound is wonderful. 


I use genuine 47 Labs Phono Cube with Power Humpty. Not interested in clones of whatever products in audio, in case with 47 Labs products I really like the aesthetics, those units are state of the art design in my opinion. Someone posted a links to high quality pictures of the 47Labs PhonoCube and PowerHumpty. Beautiful gear!

Regarding the clone (and its circuit) read this. 

Saburo, thank you for your comments on the 47 Labs, BMC, and Lino current driven phono stages. Can we assume your opinions of one vs the others are based on listening to each on your own system? After doing my homework I had concluded that the BMC was my preference among all available options, based on hearsay and theory only. I was stymied with respect to an actual purchase by cost and lack of passion. Subsequently Dave Slagle of Intact Audio and Emia built me a kind of current driven pre-preamplifier to plug into the MM section of my Manley Steelhead so I could enjoy perhaps the lowest output low impedance cartridge ever made, the Ortofon MC 2000. It works very well.