Looking forward to it 👍

True and it’s case and existing hardware dependent. At some point o was playing Flacs and DSF music from a MacBook using JRiver and the sound was astonishing but not applicable across the board from vinyl players and CD. Besides the transparency of the Lokius is phenomenal.

Agree but when you use CDs or Turntables and you want to add EQ without a PC or a Laptop using high quality balanced cables then Hardware EQ is the way to go IMHO.

I would still recommend a Lokius which will tweak any headphone to your liking, you can still change pads though :ksc75smile:

Nice job :ok_hand:

Would really appreciate the photos of the turntables once in progress. I believe it should be some heavy wood for stability.

Wow this is impressive, @bcowen is in luck being on the receiving side of your artwork (The sideway Incubus and now the rack). :xf_cool: There is some magical attraction in every well finished wood piece.

You took your carpentering skills to the next level as the rack is a serious "Schiit" woodwork :beerchug:

I would recommend the Elise (Freq response 10Hz-60Khz) if budget allows as the Echo 2 (15Hz-45Khz) sound signature is so clean and very close to Solid States

Good to hear from you after an online blackout :wink: Thought you were in some tube expedition in Ukraine :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

Totally agree, Koetsu are sexy by design 😍😍

Well in fact I was so lucky to find a nice budget friendly list of cartridges to chose from, am sure most of the readers will jump on them right away. As for me I learned my lesson :sob: :sob: https://forum.psaudio.com/t/the-top-20-most-expensive-phono-cartridges-ever-made/15837

You can never go wrong with a Mcintosh but yes $100 is too much for shipping charges for the Lokius.

Get this and never look back https://www.schiit.com/products/lokius Unless you have deeper pockets for this https://www.schiit.com/products/loki-max :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye: :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye: :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye: :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye: :ksc75smile...

Sadly the new ones are made in China......

Took me sometime and research but by now I can highly recommend the Schiit Lokius with both balanced and unbalanced I/O if you are interested in a hardware EQ. Total transparency.

And if you want to get blown away, get an Astell & Kern music player and match it with a good Westone Mach 70 IEM :beyersmile:

That's the thing about equalizers, never start a music hearing session with them if you plan to switch to un-equalized at some point. But to be fair, pure audio will always have its magic once driven through good components.

Mine are all old records Bee Gees, Abba, Chicago, Eagles, Fleetwood Mac, Barclay James Harvest, Midnight Oil, Alan Parsons, Pink Floyd, Moody Blues, Simon & Garfunkel, Deep Purple etc. mostly old fart's collection :ksc75smile:

I will go cheap and get this budget friendly turntable :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye::stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye::stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye: https://scottwalkeraudio.com/store/mcintosh-mt10-turntable/

Probably made for the Gulf market on special request :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye::stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye:

Indeed but thought it was my end play which turned out not to be :sob:

Sorry to break it up for you but it can always gets better :stuck_out_tongue_winking_eye: , good though that you are satisfied but most of us here became addicts and keep shelling more money on audio gear......Just the nature of the addiction :):)

Thanks for all your insight and I totally agree that tubes and Vinyl marry so well, already the Music Hall MMF-5.3 https://www.musichallaudio.com/products/music-hall-mmf-5-3-turntable is a good turntable as per most reviews as well as the Mcintosch Phono section but seems a tube preamp is...

Bummer Been giving lot of thinking to buy a new turntable (Having a small treasure of vinyl discs) till I finally did bite the bullet and got the Music Hall MMF-5.3 with an Ortofon 2M Blue cartridge and plugged it into my Mcintosch amp only to discover that digital music is way better after...