MICHAEL FREMER review (STEREOPHILE 10 Mar 2020):

- US$2499 currently.
- Suits only low impedance (low output) cartridges.
- Battery powered.
- 3 selectable Gain levels.

" a combination of drop-dead, noise-free backgrounds and lack of obvious colorations or sonic personality "

" In terms of vivid three-dimensionality, the Lino C 2.0 comes close to the best current-amplification phono preamps I've heard "




- 2019 The Absolute Sound - Golden Ear Awards Winner
- 2019 Stereophile Editors' Choice, Class "A" Rated Component
- 2019 The Absolute Sound - Editors' Choice Awards Winner

CHANNEL D Lino C 2.0 webpage.

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Not a review, but a useful (if slightly humourless) explanation of how the CHANNEL D Lino C 2.0's current mode input works with low impedance cartridges.

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No more MC cartridge loading hassles!

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Think Ill order one... should be here around 2025🤣🤣

Better hurry...

" Notice of Price Increase: due to compounded across-the-board supplier price increases since 2017, the price of the Lino C 2.0 will be increasing by 12 percent from $2499 to $2799 when the stock for our current production run is exhausted (about March 2020). "

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Maybe Ill just keep the little black box from Pure Audio instead then...

Andre Jennings (THE ABSOLUTE SOUND) gives the Channel D Lino C 2.0 a thorough workout "with five different tonearms and eight different cartridges".


" The Lino C 2.0 is very linear and coherent sounding... There is a slightly damped quality... allows the music to flow with little to no aggressiveness from any of the cartridges used. "

" The sound created from Lino C 2.0 has an ever-so-slight tonal shift towards the warm side of neutral... is completely non-fatiguing, summoning up a sense of serenity around musical playback... soundstage...reproduced with excellent width and depth, instrument location, performance interplay... "

" a winner of a phonostage at its $2699 price. "





Full spec's do not seem to appear on the Lino C 2.0 webpage.

Gain varies with MC cartridge output - 65 - 75dB "for typical MC cartridges".

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