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Whats on your turntable tonight?
Bob Dylan - Another Side of Bob Dylan, MFSL 45 RPM mono 
Whats on your turntable tonight?
Cat Stevens - Tea For the Tillerman, MFSL UHQR 
Whats on your turntable tonight?
Joe Walsh - So What  
Whats on your turntable tonight?
@tomic601 I've bought a few turntables from Echo!  They are very accessible and usually answer pretty quickly if you send them an email.  The address is on their website. 
Best Phone Stage for under $1,000.000
I've had the Puffin for a while now and at its price point, it's a great unit.  I've since made some phono stage upgrades in my main system, but the Puffin wouldn't be embarrassed if I put it back there.  It doesn't really do anything wrong and is... 
What are you streaming tonight?
Flume - Hi This is Flume, Tidal  
Whats on your turntable tonight?
Wings - Greatest Hits 
Whats on your turntable tonight?
Lynyrd Skynyrd - Gimme Back My Bullets 
Whats on your turntable tonight?
This goes in the "what was I thinking?" pile... I've been buying a lot of MFSL records lately and ordered Cyndi Lauper - She's So Unusual.  There is some ear candy in among all the 80's production, but her voice... not for me. 
What are you streaming tonight?
Quicksails - Blue Rise, Qobuz Hi-Res, some nice early morning ambient music. 
What are you streaming tonight?
@16f4 What did you think of Katie Dey and Laurence Pike?  I enjoyed them both, but neither got favorited, which usually means one and done. 
Jazz vocalists which may not be as real as we think/imagine
This reminds me of all the posts in photography forums about how Photoshop takes away from images and that photographer should "get it right" in the camera.On topic, I've never noticed anything unnatural about Diana Krall's voice on recordings, bu... 
What are you streaming tonight?
Laurence Pike - Prophecy, Qobuz Hi-Res 
What are you streaming tonight?
Katie Dey - Mydata, Qobuz 
Speaker shootout update; aggressive treble eliminating some (fairly?)
The Canton Vento Reference 9.2 DC are nice speakers with lots of bass for their size and are fairly neutral.  I have them in my bedroom system.  Having said that, you can get a lot more speaker for $4000.