The Puffin is great mainly for poorly recorded albums and mono records if you don't have a mono cartridge. I use it on my secondary TT. It is a fantastic equalizer. The owner is also outstanding and fixed an issue on a 5 year old unit at zero cost. It is easy to self update to newer versions. It is not a toy but an amazing piece of digital engineering. In the end, it's like the Loki Max, mainly ignored by the old school audiophiles. I'm old but not old school.
Wonder product?
I certainly don't claim to keep up to date with all new products introduced. But here is a company and phono stage I never heard of. Parks Audio -
http://www.parksaudiollc.com/puffin.html
Their claims for the Puffin and Waxwing sound pretty ambitious. Do any of you know about these units?