K&K any comments?

There is no way a Bel Canto, beat a Steelhead, I owned them both....LOL!

A few years ago I built a two chassis dual mono K+K first generation phono stage with the seperate channel boards and used S+B step up tranformers.Previous to this I had been using a Pass x ono.I kept the Pass for over a year before deciding it was not getting enough playing time and I sold it to a seemingly happy guy in Denmark.At this time I was using a Bent S+B passive.Wanting to simplify, use less cable and up grade in late 2008 I had Kevin build me his absolute best attempt at that time regardless of cost phono with a line input and stepped attenuator volume control and cartridge loading control he decided on the cardas caps and LL1931 transformers.The result was an eye opener for me and I sold my prior pride and joy to a friend of a friend with less decision time required than dumping the pass.Knowing Kevin I am sure he and his crew will continue to tweak and improve the product even further.My very humble system of VAC70/70.s Quad 989,s and Dais table, Benesch act2 arm and Benz ebony lp may not have the ultimate resolution its not so bad. and The new K+K has been huge step foward in improving it.

So you preferred the LL1931's to the S&B SUT's, or do you think eliminating the extra cable may have contributed to the improvement?

There is such a lot of different components changed in one shot it would be difficult to say what caused the improvements.Tube type,Audio note resistors,Internal Wire type,Transformers,Cardas parafeed caps versus Kimber,Direct to power amp connection. I thought in my system my homemade unit had a reasonable margin over the Pass X ono and most although not all friends agreed, it was no contest when the new unit was compared to my dual mono and I tried lots of load settings and cable changes etc before selling the unit.