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Whats on your turntable tonight?
My wife grew up near 39th and Holgate and worked at Otto's when she was in high school in the late 70s. 
Whats on your turntable tonight?
Listening to Bread - Baby I'm-a Want You. 
Whats on your turntable tonight?
@spiritofradio - I just looked Crossroads up- sheesh, I used to live about a mile from there many moons ago. Do you know Otto's Deli on Woodstock? I love their brats!  
Whats on your turntable tonight?
@spiritofradio - thanks for the tip on Crossroads - I'll have to check it out next time I'm down in Portland.  
Whats on your turntable tonight?
War, Greatest Hits; Getz Au Go Go. 
Whats on your turntable tonight?
Kim Hae Jung, piano, with the USSR Ministry of Culture Orchestra, Ghenaddy Rozhdestvensky, conductor - Rachmaninoff Piano Concertos 2&3. This is a Jigu Rcords pressing, apparently only available in Korea, but I found it in a used record shop h... 
Whats on your turntable tonight?
@ctwith3  - lovely - you're putting me in the mood for some piano music! 
Whats on your turntable tonight?
Rafael Kubelik conducting Borodin Polovtsian Dances and Symphony No. 2, Vienna Philharmonic 
Whats playing on your system today?
Jane Monheit, "Come Dream with Me." I just discovered this marvelous singer a few weeks ago. 
Whats on your turntable tonight?
@spiritofradio and @bkeske, Vaughan Williams is one of my very favorite composers. I love many of his orchestral works, but he had a wonderful way of writing for the voice. Some of my very favorite choral works are by him: Serenade to Music, Dona ... 
New cartridge $500 range
I'd recommend an Ortofon MC3 Turbo. It's a high output MC, like your Sumiko, but I believe the output is a little higher, and the nude fine line stylus should give you a significant upgrade in sound from the elliptical stylus you're running now. 
Whats on your turntable tonight?
So far this evening, JSB Die Kunst der Fuge,  BWV 1080, Herbert Tachezi, organ and  Favorite Baroque oboe concertos, Pierre Pierre, oboe, I Solisti Veneti, Claudio Simon, conductor.By the way, on Monday I traded in my Pro-ject Debut Carbon for a R... 
Whats on your turntable tonight?
Kurt Elling, "Flirting with Twilight." It's one of the Blue Note 75th anniversary reissues. 
Whats on your turntable tonight?
A wonderful recording I picked up today at a used store: "We're All Together Again for the First Time" Dave Brubeck, Gerry Mulligan, Paul Desmond,  Alan Dawson, Jack Six. Recorded live  in Berlin, Paris, and Rotterdam, the guys were really fired u... 
Amp/Preamp Recommendations
Thanks for the continued responses - I appreciate all the input. @davebeegle , yes, I tried it both ways. Has anyone here tried Jolida's now discontinued JD1000BRC? it's an integrated that achieves 100 wpc with 8 EL34 tubes (twice as many as my 30...