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Widely differing opinions - well, it’s complicated
two distinct camps: pleasure seeking flavorizers and, accurate to source. Since ya have to have witnessed the “ source “, the latter camp is microscopic…. Lots in the former w many sects..typically chasing the distortion they prefer. Very astute e... 
Whats on your turntable tonight?
My pressings of both were good, Lady B is super quiet although that could just be the “ crush “ effect. I jumped on Aimee disc because of the crazy $ for her older stuff….. i must have got lucky….  
Whats on your turntable tonight?
A ..tie of sorts..level match needed as the MOV is cut much hotter….without that the MOV is the stuff of legendary hyperbole, a $29 “ hot stamper “. OP is less defined, more gritty, richly toned, better bass, better defined easy to follow bass lin... 
Praise for Dave of the Audiodoctor and Audio intellect
Fantastic! Great work Dave ;-)  
Whats on your turntable tonight?
JJ Cale - Troubadour - OP vs Music on Vinyl post Degritter….. This is highly recommended JJ album…. Film ( results at 11 ) Jim   
Hana Umami Red or Lyra Kleos?
@retipper might weigh in on The Voice / VPI arm compatibility issues, if any… He is the inventor after all and a fine man. ??? Jim  
Hana Umami Red or Lyra Kleos?
I have heard both ( Lyra and Hana ) at some length but not on same table. Lyra on a Unipivot VPI , Hana on an AMG. A major toss up….. both frankly are excellent and both will reward..your…eventual…arm upgrade to pivot….. Lets put it this way, as ... 
Crossovers and Low Pass Filters
Agree Erik - but then so many many audiophiles can’t even level match for a decent / fair A/B test… good final by ear test is playing back an excellent recording of a scaling acoustic bass… Test tones at and below 120 hz are available free at Va... 
Whats on your turntable tonight?
On a roll with JJ ; Guitar Man and to close out the night Naturally……  
Dedicated Circuits - Subpanel importance?
@whart I love my hospital grade Hubbell outlets ;-)  
Whats on your turntable tonight?
Congrats on nice box set Steve ! catching up; JJ Cale - Troubadour and then “5”  
Rate my system/advise
gonna have to hook it up..but congrats on a REF6 ! wow  
REEL TO REEL TAPE?
ATR Magnetics ;-) awesome tape  
Whats on your turntable tonight?
exactly the sage advice i was advertising….  
I need help regarding tube phono preamplifiers
@czarivey Clever !  perhaps i misread their input (s)