Requesting recommendations for phono stage

+1 for the hagerman.

@600ohms thanks for the clarification, Mr. Herron. I sent you an email earlier today. 

@chakster TBH, I tested the gold note and the LFD side by side in my system for about a week and with several listening buddies over, and the LFD simply destroyed the gold note no matter what settings I had the Gold note on. It's a fine preemplifier, and it has a lot of flexibility, but I was surprised at how inferior a performance it was compared to the LFD. But then again, that was just one side by side in one system, so obviously not applicable to everything

Keith Herron is done? 

@bkeske. Yes. And was happily surprised at how much of a difference it is from the already formidable as LFD LE I have. Still burning it in. 

@chakster I'd never heard of JLTi until you mentioned it above. Will look into it. And also, I wasn't trying to imply that the pH 10 was a bad filling stage by any means. It really is phenomenal and I got one with full anticipation of loving it, which I did - until I compared with the LFD.