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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. 
Whats on your turntable tonight?
@spiritofradio That's pretty funny!  I'm sure tongue in cheek.  Perhaps not. 
Whats on your turntable tonight?
Chris Cornell - No One Sings Like You Anymore Volume One. I love his version of Jump Into the Fire 
Whats on your turntable tonight?
There's commentary between each track in German on this Steely Dan record. It's a limited edition promo compilation from Germany. I need to get my German girlfriend over here to translate. 
Whats on your turntable tonight?
Steely Dan - The Steely Dan Story. This is more of a collector's item than an audiophile pressing. 
Whats on your turntable tonight?
Jeff Beck - Wired, Analogue Productions 45 RPM. Putting the new Herron phono stage to the test.  
Whats on your turntable tonight?
@spiritofradio I really like R. L. Burnside.  There's a lot of great storytelling to go along with the bluesy funky music he put out. 
Whats on your turntable tonight?
R. L. Burnside - A Bothered Mind 
Whats on your turntable tonight?
PJ Harvey - Rid of Me 
did you sell your PS Audio NuWave phono unit?
No, but I haven't bought it yet either.  
Whats on your turntable tonight?
David Bowie - Diamond Dogs 
Modwright LS100 vs The followings
With the right speakers the LS100 is capable of everything you described and it sounds like the rest of your system is. Maybe you should look somewhere else than the preamp.