Requesting recommendations for phono stage

@chakster TBH, I tested the gold note and the LFD side by side in my system for about a week and with several listening buddies over, and the LFD simply destroyed the gold note no matter what settings I had the Gold note on. It's a fine preemplifier, and it has a lot of flexibility, but I was surprised at how inferior a performance it was compared to the LFD. But then again, that was just one side by side in one system, so obviously not applicable to everything

@simao 

@bkeske. Yes. And was happily surprised at how much of a difference it is from the already formidable as LFD LE I have. Still burning it in.

Fantastic. Yea, made an immediate impression on me as well, but really, give the Hagerman time, it really will blossom more with burn-in.

I’m more and more happy with the Trumpet.

No thanks for MC mudding the waters.

@chakster TBH, I tested the gold note and the LFD side by side in my system for about a week and with several listening buddies over, and the LFD simply destroyed the gold note no matter what settings I had the Gold note on. It's a fine preemplifier, and it has a lot of flexibility, but I was surprised at how inferior a performance it was compared to the LFD. But then again, that was just one side by side in one system, so obviously not applicable to everything.

@simao I'm using PH-10 with PS-10 for Fidelity-Research FR-7f and it's very impressive, but I have many more phono stages, headmp, current-injection type, and sut. It's really hard to choose just one. JLTi is another excellent phono stage for MM and MC. 

@chakster I'd never heard of JLTi until you mentioned it above. Will look into it. And also, I wasn't trying to imply that the pH 10 was a bad filling stage by any means. It really is phenomenal and I got one with full anticipation of loving it, which I did - until I compared with the LFD.