Hana SL or ML?

The Shibata tip on the S Hana models may need a little finesse to set up,  but once it's dialed in, you'll be in audio Heaven!  Enjoy! 

I have the SL, have had it for about 4 months now and I echo ndevamp's comment about it needing some time to run in before it really shines.  I would say it sounded good right out of the box, but somewhere around 70-100 hours in is when it really opened up.  I've tried loading at the recommended 400ohms, 1K, 30K and 47K ohms and am settled in at 1K at the moment but some of this to me is also music-dependent.  I think you have made a good choice to go for the SL....I'd be very surprised if you aren't happy with it.  Which Simaudio phonostage do you have?  I recently purchased a Black Ice Audio (formerly Jolida) F-159, tube phonostage and the combination works really well.  

@anovak Thanks! I have Sim Audio phono as well. It is built in my Sim Audio Moon 390 preamp. Do you run your Jolida phono with tube pre/power or solid state amps? 

I run the Jolida Black Ice Audio F-159 tube phonostage into a Rotel Preamp using the by-pass circuit which sends the signal out to the Rotel Power amp without going through any other circuits aside from an attenuator (volume control) and both Rotels are solid state.  Works pretty nicely actually.....that Simaudio Moon 390 looks like a really nice unit also!  Looks to be solid state, right?  

@anovak The Moon 390 is an amazing unit. It’s a good solid state preamp, DAC/streamer, phono stage and headphone amp. While the phono stage is no slouch, I might get a better separate phono stage later on. I pair it with Moon 330A power amp and the pairing is quite good!

Interesting you avoid more number of circuits to keep the signal chain simple! How do you do that though on your Rotel preamp?