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Spade to banana adapters
good adapters should work fine, without degrading sq  
Best turntable under $4000
i don’t know what is best, been through many over the years, though certainly haven’t tried them all, and i streaming more these days but my favorite two tt’s are the oracle delphi (i have a nicely restored v2 with a brilliant origin live arm) an... 
Amps
op it depends on the amp - what amp are you talking about  
Vandersteen 2CE Signature III — video review on YouTube by Steve Guttenberg (1/15/2023)
@jamesbgood you may well be right or both points may be true... more perceptibly transparent and also brighter remember that perceived brightness is a relative balance issue and also related to relative speed of drivers and phase characteristi... 
You know when you are dealing with a BS company....
i just love it when a poster with grand total of one (1) post - as in, a first ever post - chimes in and gives a glowing, specific, superbly articulated testimonial in support of a subject product taking some fire, with well couched caveats and al... 
Vandersteen 2CE Signature III — video review on YouTube by Steve Guttenberg (1/15/2023)
Steve Guttenberg praises everything he reviews.  why is anyone surprised about this?  it is a mutually beneficial eco system... talking bad about a product is bad business for everyone...   
You know when you are dealing with a BS company....
i too have a distaste for how morrow does it’s marketing, i once emailed them with a question, then i was blasted mercilessly with promotional emails (we are talking one or more per day!) -- so i finally marked all their emails as spam  that said... 
Why so few devices with BNC's??
Incorrect.  The acronym is for Bayonet Neill–Concelman.  indeed... https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BNC_connector#:~:text=The%20connector%20was%20named%20the,Paul%20Neill%20and%20Carl%20Concelman.  
Vandersteen 2CE Signature III — video review on YouTube by Steve Guttenberg (1/15/2023)
its no surprise that some manufacturers of gear resort to meaningless specs like frequency response to 30khz to try to sell their wares... for tweeters, it often less about frequency extension, rather more so about the flatness of response through... 
Looking for a good small subwoofer...
there are often pairs of rel t5i/x or t7i/x that appear used.. they are terrific  
Aftermarket headshell leads
it isn't hard, steady hand, and needle nose pliers the metal on the sleeves usually deform easily  
My 30 Watt class A is louder than my 100 Watt Class AB?
That would explain the volume increase! haha... when seemingly weird stuff happens there is ALWAYS an explanation, it is just that sometimes it takes us a while to figure it out!  
IsoAcoustics Gaia feet on Oracle Delphi turntable
what @cleeds said... the delphi is designed to have its wonderful floating suspension do the job... it takes some skill and experience to get it set up right, orient the weight underneath properly and so on ...   
Streamer for mostly Qobuz with volume control
streamers without built in dacs won’t have a volume control.... even in a modern digital front end, volume control occurs in the d-to-a conversion stage if you are committed to using the chord qutest, you will need to alter music volume downstrea... 
Looking for a good small subwoofer...
hmmm small horn speakers...is that like jumbo shrimp or a minor catastrophe...?? 🤣