P75 seems more sophisticated than Black Cube

I am running the Black Cube SE now with a Dynavector Karat cartridge. I think its a good match, but I admit I've not heard every combo in this price range. I am curious to try the P75, and I eventually will, just to see if any synergies exist and to hear what the PE enhanced mode is all about.

As to the sophistication and price levels, I think the power supply of the SE is where the money goes.

I have tried both and prefer the dynavector hands down, lets you hear so much more

Dynavector is good, I tried it against a Cambridge audio 100.00 MM unit, and it beats it slightly overall, better bass but really KICKS the woofers out like crazy as it has no Subsonic filter... Now that being said, Dynavector is Extremly overpriced in my opinion, the build quality is very basic, now this does not necessarily equate to sound but its Cheap, actually almost cheesy for a hi-end component, just my opinion... Now for the price the best out there is the musical surroundings, but it is about 100 more than the dynavector too I believe, But it wins in sound and FAR beyond the Dyn. in build quality, it is very nice with Solid Cardas type Rca's and connections right from the factory, not some cheap gold Boom box style which is on all the other units we are talking about here, and a very good Aluminum housing just like a good krell, audio research preamp type quality, and again Killer sound, more refined sounding with the cartridges I used at least vs. the Dynavector, also its near dead silent in my system the dynavector Hummed a bit more, but this could be system dependent... I am not bashing the Dyn. at all but at the price range I would look between the Musical surroundings, and from what I hear the new TRIAD I think it is called which is even a little cheaper than both from germany and supposedly an even more Analog sounding phono amp vs. any in its cost range and all these I talk about are Adjustable with basically the same settings. But the triad is not the build of the musical surroundings either, but the surroundings is double the size as well of the others. MUSICDIRECT.com In chicago carrys all of these models and you can see them online. But in the end after trying them all myself the Surrondings wins out. and thats not even with the battery pack which is not an option on any of the others, But again my opinion

I forgot to mention in the above post, the Musical surroundings is a Stereophile class "B" component, not that I take it at face value, but I have to do personal comparison and it deserves the rating if that means anything..

But if the Dynavector was 300.00 retail as it should be, I would have bought it Day 1... but in its price range I could not justify or even find it to sound better.. But both the Surroundings and dynavector have a type of cult following, but actually I think the musical surroundings is much more reviewed and highly praised than the dyn. as well...

So the Dyn. is build quality like a 99.00 Sony DVD player and thats fine,
The Musical surroundings is like a 4000.00 Wadia transport if you want to get technical or some visualization but both in the end are a simple box...
But even then the sound matters most, so I am not trying to push anything here, but its from my experiance.

you are way to hung up on the build of the p75, matrix. don't know what cart you're using, but if it's not a low output mc, then you're missing the full power of it. cause with a low power mc, it's as good as anything under $2k. many others have said this, and i'm just agreeing with them. with a mm or a high output mc, you probably can do better, but not necessarily at the $500 price point that the p75 will run you. so don' worry about the outside build. that means nothing. it's what's in the box that counts, and dynavector has build a very high quality product.