I need to be here very soon. Or should I say hope to be there soon and just sit back and enjoy.
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I buried my last rabbit hole more than 10 years ago. After the retirement I started digging a tiny hole by adding a P15, but unfortunetly it was a landmine that blew the hole wide-open! I was not expecting the improvement from it for sure.
I surely was not expecting I would enter a new audio world called streaming either! 
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Just bit the bullet on my new rabbit hole (tubes) and ordered a amp from Italy of all places. I’m having a blast with tubes and have tried 300B, Kt88 etc. This is from a small company but they have been around since 1987. Estimate is 10-14 days to get here…
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I am very happy with where I am at systemwise. It seems easy enough to accomplish as I have done it dozens of times.
Wait…
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Never heard this company before and I live less than 2 hours by car from the factory. Let me know if you need some help, phone calls or similar italian to italian kind of contacts!
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This isn’t mine, but if anyone is interested, these rarely come up on the used market.
54 pounds? Might as well be black. Lol
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I am totally content with my setup, so much so that I can’t wait to try the next best thing.
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The sides are black. Happy now?
If you buy this one and mine you can be in bi-amp heaven.
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Tonight is one of those nights where my system is actually frightening. Listening to new to me oddball music on vinyl. Yikes!
It’s fairly silly but weird sounds jump out from over there or over there.
This is fun too.
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I think the listing you shared already sold so you are correct. They don’t show up much or last long.
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Indeed, upgrading an LP12 is optional, but find me someone who doesn’t. Plus, the initial build and set-up is not exactly something you’d delegate to an 8-year-old.
New set of interconnects.
Neutrik gold plated connectors and L4E6S star quad.
No expense spared on the packaging.
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That’s proper IC cable that is 
Quality cable, quality connectors, plastic bag, no snake oil 
(I use Neutrik for my home made, I don’t go as far as Starquad, but with the amount of electrical noise around here I probably should).
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The 1m cable pair cost £52.
I’m reliably informed that it was Nordost who started the cable madness. So I considered their Odin II XLR. The problem is that even were I to sell my car and my wife’s car, it would still not cover the £28,290 cost for a 1m pair of XLR terminated cables. There is an additional charge of £3 to spray them with De-oxit.
The pricing is £6,900 per meter, so you are paying £21,690 ($27,000) for the plugs and termination. Nordost use gold-plated plugs. Mark charges £49.50 for gold-plated Neutrik plugs and termination. I make that a saving of 99.77%. So forget the cable, the Nordost plugs and connection costs 438 times as much. I’m sure it’s worth it.
I am having a rather more expensive pure silver balanced DIN/RCA phono lead made by Mark at Vinyl Passion.
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Is that for a stereo pair? I would save very little with home made at that price if so.
I like making my own but my hands are getting a bit too shaky most of the time now to do a good job!
Silver phono cable - you could excuse that as a piece of artwork
Yes £52 for a 1m pair. Pro stores and Amazon are usually per cable.
The phono cable is really just about matching capacitance with the cartridge.
Also, my phono stage has balanced and unbalanced options. There is a toggle switch to select.
To use balanced, the + and - have to be separately wired and not connected to each other or the shield. This is rarely the case and you can never be sure. The cable earth then goes to the phono earth. So the best option is to get them made up by someone who knows what they are doing.
Couple of years ago I nearly built a phono preamp. I intended to put a variable capacitor on each channel so I could “tune” it manually as it was playing, I’m surprised phone pre amps don’t do that, the range of capacitance (in the tens or low hundreds of pF I think) is just right for standard radio tuning capacitors to be a good fit
The very first phone preamp I built (mono, for a ceramic cartridge) used one as an actual volume control.
That was fast. It was available when I posted it.
Perhaps others will show up on the used market once the newly announced 555 arrives.
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Who is the manufacturer?