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Rhiannon Giddens - Freedom Highway 
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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... 
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Stevie Wonder  - Innervisions 
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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 ... 
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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. 
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@spiritofradio That's pretty funny!  I'm sure tongue in cheek.  Perhaps not. 
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Chris Cornell - No One Sings Like You Anymore Volume One. I love his version of Jump Into the Fire 
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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. 
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Steely Dan - The Steely Dan Story. This is more of a collector's item than an audiophile pressing.