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SUT vs. Phono preamp
https//hackaday.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/portabe_tube_preamp_schematic.jpg Here’s a similar one to what I built: 
SUT vs. Phono preamp
It’s a Nelson Pass design using 12AE6 6.3 volt old fashioned car radio tubes. I side a nine volt lithium battery for a power supply;  gives a bit more gain and don’t seem to shorten tube life much, if any. Mine are nine years old and dhow no sings... 
SUT vs. Phono preamp
I use a homebrew battery ploperstrd tube phono preamp. Undetectable noise floor; twin mono design so no cross talk; and a stepped 4 deck pot with 1% metal film resistors from Vishay I got from Alan online dealer. Sounds awesome.  
How do you sort your LPs?
bin for each genre, then by alphabet in each bin 
Advise on Long Phono Cable run
Ditto on balanced XLR. Pro sound operators run them hundred of feet with no deregulation in the sound.  
what's the point?
Seconds on Crown. I absolutely LOVE mine; great value for the cash and rock solid performance.  Mine drives 4 four ohm monitors with great ease at 450 RMS WPC. Have had at least 15 power amplifiers since I was in my teens. Wasted a lot money; shou... 
Subwoofer insight.
Klipsch R115-SW. KILLER! 
Parasound A21+ or PS Audio S700 monos?
Vincent Audio valve mono blocks Model SP T-700 
Best Preamp round $8000
MBL 6010D 
Audiophile LAN cables
Just get a high quality Cat-8 cable. Wire world carries a good selection. No need to buy “audiophile grade LAN cabling, whatever the he’ll they might be. Bits is bits, ya know? 
DIY Custom Made Turntables, some doubts..
I think it’d be EXTREMELY difficult to get any kind of results even approaching a good commercial TT. I would not attempt it.  
The peculiarities of a high value, low cost, amp
Ditto the Crowns, especially their big valve amps.  
Power Conditioner: Isotek, Audioquest or other?
Obviously he also had to hardwire his equipment to bypass the power supplies.  No residual 60 HZ riding on top of the fmsugnal abd no transformer hum.  
Power Conditioner: Isotek, Audioquest or other?
I use Panamax VT 4015 and am very satisfied. Most insane power system I ever encountered was an Army buddy living in the Bronx, back when it was a virtual war zone with all kinds of illegal hijacked power taps, etc. He build himself a 120 volt DC ... 
Elac Loudspeakers?
I’d like to hear from anyone who can contrast these two Elac models:  UF5 vs 5.2Going to buy pair of one or the other next month on Amazon to go with my Crown 320 WPC power amp and Yiali tube preamp