What's A Good Upgrade From A Manley Steelhead?

they bought the Bugatti name that was dead for 50 years, hard to say what's real

@whart don't try to be polite, feel free to lecture me. After all you spent a gazillion dollars on your rig, and I am ignorant because I did not (for two reasons, one is lack of $$$).  I'd be so happy to learn from you. 

But let's leave cars out of this, you seem very confused.

Thank you.

And your first lesson could be to lookup the word "upgrade" in the dictionary and figure out what it means. You are welcome.

I don’t know how you would step UP from the Steelhead? It’s 10 grand. It’s as good as it gets. It’s pretty much the Bugatti Chiron of phono stages. You can go sideways or down. Looking at your system, you would benefit more from different speakers....

what a loss...

Maybe if you hadn't been condescending and didn't assume things about me, we could have taught each other a few things, but oh well.

I did hear the Steelhead and a lot of phono preamps, side by side. Your argument that I had to own one to have a seat at the table made 0 sense to me. You don't have to own a rocket to have a PhD in the subject.

@rooze

I wish :)

I would like to upgrade some day to the Manley line. They don't just sound good, they are the best design to my eyes, and EveAnna is a natural at this.

@rooze 

you seem to have an impeccable, high-end system and I can recognize most components but not the speakers. So, no, I have no knowledge of what they are. 

From your room size, you could go with horn speakers (not Klipsch). That appears to be a new direction and upgrade in a few aspects.

But as I mentioned above and in other posts, I am the village idiot here, I am here to learn and have little to contribute.

@dabel very true. I can see myself slowing trading up, however the wife factor is real, I don't have good solutions.

@dabel 

will see. I am crawling ads every day for good deals as a way of getting closer to my goals. 

@rsf507 I don't meant to hijack this post :)

I had my own post for my phono stage search. I just bought a Simaudio 110LP v2. It works great. 

I was looking at used Sutherlands and such but I have to save up for those.