Winner of The 2012 Absolute Sound Editor's Choice Award!
The Basic phonostage offers both MM and MC capabilities, with enough gain to drive the lowest output cartridges. It is a very simple unit to operate with a single button switching between MM and MC functionality. Another nice feature is it dedicated power transformer, which resides outside the actual phonostage to keep the audio circuit as quiet as possible. The Basic is available in both Black and Silver finish.

The layout of the circuitry is optimized for high channel separation, complementing Clearaudio phono cartridges. All of our phono preamplifiers use the Clearaudio non-magnetic MPC RCA jacks.

TAS Review
It's a phono stage that will easily challenge the performance of far more expensive phono stages.

Clearaudio Basic Technical Data:

MM/MC - Rca's In & Out

Gain: 60dB (MC) 40dB (MM)

Input impedance: 800

Ohms/270pF MC47k Ohms/270pF MM

RIAA Accuracy: +/- 0.2 dB

Distortion: 0.004%

Signal/Noise ratio: >65 dB(MC)

Channel separation: >90 dB

MM/MC input: Switchable (on bottom)

Power voltage: +/- 25V DC

Outputs: Asymmetrical (RCA)

Weight: 1.5 kg

Dimensions (in mm): 102x165x60