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Whats on your turntable tonight?
Donald Byrd's Best 
Whats on your turntable tonight?
Jethro Tull - Aqualung, UHQR  
What are you streaming tonight?
Alfa Mist - Bring Back, Qobuz Hi-Res.  Digging this. 
Whats on your turntable tonight?
Donald Byrd - Stepping Into Tomorrow 
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.