Well a flurry of changes again and after a long battle with vinyl I have decided to surrender and go for a simple single source solution. I tried to downgrade from a VPI Aries but once you've heard good vinyl, it's really hard to settle for less. With the Electrocompaniet, the digital was so appealing, so smooth, so "analog" I feel I can live without the TT for awhile.

My wife and I are expecting our first in a couple months so the playing and upgrading will soon be in the back seat. Thus I decided to get the best I could right now.

The old system was:

Copland CDA-289 CD Player

VPI Aries / JMW 10 Turntable

Shelter 501 Mk.II Cartridge

Audiomat Phono 1 Preamplifier

Sonic Frontiers SFP-1 sig Tube preamp

Audiomat Arpege Tube amp

Reference 3A Royal Virtuoso Monitor

It's all gone, except for the Shelter because I know I will be back to vinyl.

It's quite a change but gone are all the extraneous extras and once again, simpler is better.

Great sound to my ears.

Couldn't be happier...or could I?

Any comments appreciated.

Thanks.