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Whats on your turntable tonight?
Donald Byrd - Places and Spaces.  Funky! 
When did audio goners now have to pay to see the book value of equipment??
It's on the internet, it's supposed to be free!  Waaah. 
Got a Node 2i, what's next?
If you're not satisfied with the Node 2i, you can make it sound better with an external DAC.  I went down that route, trying it with a Mytek Liberty and an Auralic Vega.  Better, but still not that great.  For me, replacing it was a better and mor... 
Whats on your turntable tonight?
Led Zeppelin II, Japan pressing 
Whats on your turntable tonight?
Rhiannon Giddens - Freedom Highway 
Whats on your turntable tonight?
Donald Byrd - Caricatures 
Which Phono Preamp?
I just got my Herron and set it up the night before last.  It clearly outdid my Pass XP-15 and my Manley Chinook, both of which are very good phono stages.  More separation between individual voices and instruments, a more clearly defined sense of... 
Whats on your turntable tonight?
Stevie Wonder  - Innervisions 
Whats on your turntable tonight?
PJ Harvey - To Bring You My Love 
Whats on your turntable tonight?
Correction - The Melody Gardot album I was listening to earlier was Sunset in the Blue. If anyone cares.  
Need some advice, Vincent Audio
These are the tubes I used in the SV-237:Tung-Sol 12AX7A - long gray plates, halo getter, phono gradeVoskhod 6N1P That really smoothed out the sound and improved dynamics.  
Whats on your turntable tonight?
Melody Gardot - The Absence  
Benefits of adding a 10MHz Master Clock to a digital system
Thanks for chiming in OP.  I would challenge your precept that $4K is a "modest" investment for an "upgrade" to a source, let alone, another $9K in "tweaks" for most people on this forum.  If you've got the green and it's worth it to you, that's g... 
Need some advice, Vincent Audio
I owned a SV-237 integrated for a while and really liked it.  I upgraded to a Simaudio 600i, which is better, but only incrementally and quite a bit more expensive.  Other integrateds I've owned - Audio Research Vsi-55 (I still own it), Peachtree ... 
Whats on your turntable tonight?
Butter 08 - S/T.  I think this has been sitting on the shelf since I first bought it.  It's a pretty fun record, a side project of members of Cibo Matto and Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.