Best Amp/PreAmp for turntable use only

[paddler]

basite- is the Black Box SE the same amp as the plain Blackbox with just a power supply added?

[basite]

basite- is the Black Box SE the same amp as the plain Blackbox with just a power supply added?

yup

the actual black cube is entirely the same, and the PWX power supply can be bought separately too, so, all in it's time

you also have an SEII, which also has the PWX power supply, but more options, I didn't really have any use for them though...
circuit wise, it's pretty much the same (well, except for the extra (passive) options - a bass rolloff/cutoff setting, adjustable in no less than 16 different curves, but I never really used it...) and it's formed slightly different (the Black cube is a pass through design, wire in on the front, and out on the back, to shorten the circuit length. The SEII has all the connections on the back.

Keep them spinning,
Bert.

[paddler]

well hopefully old Onkyo pre-amps, specifically the P-3030 have a nice phono section.