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The Interstellar Tone Traveler has a particular reverence for the amplifiers that Southern California's boutique builders have spent decades perfecting — and Bad Cat's Cub V is one of the circuit designs that earned that reverence. This example marks a genuine milestone: for the first time, the Cub V has been built in Black Heidi with Black Diamond grille cloth, and the result is an amp that arrives looking exactly as serious as it sounds. The all-black presentation commands attention from every angle, and the iconic backlit Bad Cat eyes piercing through the darkness read like a signal beacon from deep space — an amp that doesn't announce itself loudly with color but doesn't need to. Hand-wired point-to-point by Bad Cat's engineering team with a custom transformer set by Pacific Transformers, this is a flagship-grade instrument carrying the DNA of some of the most celebrated vintage British amplifier circuits while delivering the reliability and build quality that working