You owe it to yourself to try a Stax setup. Not cheap--especially good tube options--and could be too revealing of surface noise. But the immersive clarity can't be beat. True, digital sounds great--better than on speakers--but vinyl is even more beguiling.
Any good tube headphones and headphone amps for vinyl playback?
I have a pretty good analog setup: SME deck, Koetsu cart, Pass Labs phono preamp. I'm not sure if this is a thing that many people do, but I'm interested in listening to vinyl exclusively through headphones. If I connect a tube headphone amp to my phono stage to listen with headphones, will it be too noisy and not worth it? Most headphone listeners use digital playback which makes sense. Does anyone have any good experience with listening to good vinyl playback via headphones that is quiet?