Advice wanted on mid range setup

Rlips, my point to my post was a simple one. You stated you based your judgment on a recording comparison of one particular recording you listened to on two different media formats. I don't know what your engineering degree and the number of concerts you have been to have to do with your conclusion. I have had the opportunity to listen to some pretty sophisticated turntable setups. I can tell you that the sound demonstrated by these did not approach what I get from my system on cd. The cd/sacd examples I can give you are: Diana Krall - Live in Paris, Norah Jones, Diana Krall - When I Look in Your Eyes (SACD), older recordings Al Dimeola, John McLaughlin, Paco DeLucia - Friday Night in SF, Pink Floyd - The Wall (Japanese mini lp). There are many others I could mention. I have also heard vinyl that I prefer to the cd. Please keep in mind I am not saying that one is better than the other. I am happy that both are available. I told you my turntable setup before - very modest. The rest of my system is a Krell KRC preamp w/ KPE phono driving an FPB 300 amplifier. My speakers are B&W Nautilus 802. My digital is a Sony SCD-1. My cables are Monster Sigma Retro Speaker Cables, Monster Sigma Retro RCA's running from the Sony to the KRC. My power cables are Custom Audio, LLC w/ furtech ends. May you find the enjoyment in your system that I get from mine. Happy listening!

Jjmali,

I specifically want to add that in old vinyl time only the first ones sounded real good. Reissues very often was sounding terrible. I know some ways to distinguish either by serial numbers or by jackets but I realy collect only originals. Reissues on CDs sounded even more terrible. Hence, my point of view in that case is to have ONLY originals and my truth is that I realy enjoy holding in my hands a large original UK issue of "The wall" with booklet, inserts and posters no matter wether it's better or worse sounding than japanese mini-lp.:-) Do you know that Led Zeppelin II original sounds very close to MFSL issue

One more hint: singers who sing for microphone are easy to record...

my comment to the post was not meant to be a knock on analogue....i just know that when you add any front end to your system,(particularly one that is thousands of dollars),its a good idea to listen to it on a trial basis in your own system with a lot of your favorite music...

On a positive, we are all very passionate about our hobby.

I want to thank all the posters who have given me constructive input here. As usual, it is of incalculable benifit to build on the body of knowledge, rather than plod along in isolation.

My stratagy, I think, will probably be to build from the cartridge (and the music collection) on up. I am fully aware that this is a SYSTEM, but one does need a starting point. The cartridge seems to dictate both the phono stage requirements as well as the arm requirements which in turn seem to hint at the type of TT to be used.

To those who seem to have a problem with the process that lead me to undertake this strange journey, I wish to point out that you miss the entire point of a forum like "Audiogon:" due to this community, I can buy and sell equipment with minimum financial penalty. That IS my in home trial!! Far more fair than "wasting a salesman's time with no intention of buying".

It is interesting to me that those who seem to find some fault with my desire to do this have 1) No sales feedback, 2) No systems posted, and 3) Have only recently joined our community.

That being said, I will now respectfully ignore those individuals who's posts I find not to be helpful.