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Whats on your turntable tonight?
Badfinger - Airwaves, nice WLP 
Whats on your turntable tonight?
The Beatles - Love Songs 
What sends shivers down your spine when you play it on your system?
Karen O and Willie Nelson covering Queen's Under Pressure. 
Whats on your turntable tonight?
Manfred Mann's Earth Band  - Angel Station 
Is it my amp or my speakers?
I wouldn't go so far as to call your Krell "garbage", but it's not very good.  You could easily find something better.  You could get a really nice integrated for what you have budgeted. 
Whats on your turntable tonight?
The Beatles - 20 Greatest Hits.  This one is a little on the worn side, will probably get binned. 
Whats on your turntable tonight?
Tommy Bolin - Private Eyes, WLP 
Radio Paradise - Superb User Supported Radio- so very grateful for it!
FLAC 
Radio Paradise - Superb User Supported Radio- so very grateful for it!
Radio Paradise is the best internet radio I have found. Most "internet radio" sounds like crap. RP does a really nice job of presenting both high quality audio as well as a good mix of music. +1 to making a donation if you listen regularly. 
Whats on your turntable tonight?
Kraftwerk - The Mix 
Whats on your turntable tonight?
Another copy of Sgt. Pepper.  The first one was the Giles Martin 1/2 speed remastered 50th anniversary edition.  This one is "Taken from 2009 EMI digital remaster".  They sound less different than I thought they might, but I definitely have a pref... 
Audio Research LS/Ref or Primaluna EVO Preamp
If you like the ARC sound, I'd go up the ladder with ARC.  I've only heard one of the previous Primaluna integrateds at a dealer.  It had an intoxicating syrupy sound at first, but after a while, I didn't like how much the sound was colored.  I pr... 
Whats on your turntable tonight?
Sgt. Pepper... making my way through my project of getting all my records into Discogs database and play grading the ones that I haven't.  Not a bad way to start a Sunday morning.  More Beatles to come. 
Whats on your turntable tonight?
Missing Persons - Spring Session M 
What should be my next speaker - the never ending question
I was able to find a pair of KEF reference 1 speakers and stands around your budget. They were B stock with an almost invisible blemish. Very detailed but also very easy to listen to without any harsh edges. If that’s what you mean by smooth. They...