Yesterday afternoon my Channel Island Audio phono pre showed up. Holy guacamole! It replaces a Schitt Mani, which even with it’s features, flexibility, and cost was just sending a signal to the preamp. The Channel Island is sending music! I’m now totally sold on vinyl!
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Before you jump into this rabbit hole, you should let friends and family know where to look for you…
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Welcome to the club, with a nod yet again to @Bootzilla.
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Yes in deed at the local record emporium.
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Have you heard the DI SE speakers? I had a set last year and returned them. What specifically do you want the speakers to do for you? If you want more detail of my experience, I will give you my phone number for a chat.
Well … after 177 days of lead time from order to delivery, complicated by supply chain shortages (what else!), my ‘next’ upgrade is now my current upgrade.
A pair of Jim Salk’s Song3 Encore floor standers. After years of happy listening to a pair of his Sound Scape 7M monitors, I had the bug to go full range and the Salk crew in Michigan was my go-to to scratch my itch.
Lovely premium birdseye maple finish my camera work doesn’t do justice to.
The star of the show, an Eton magnesium midrange driver. One of the most intriguing cone midrange drivers on the market and what sold me. That pattern is a series of holes in the cone to break up cone modes and it’s treated on the backside with a damping compound. Eton applies it in a way that fills the holes and damps out any residual resonances.
The system is tuned to a very low 25 Hz at -3 dB. Now I have to decide whether to keep using my REL subs or let these beauties do all the work themselves in the bass department. This is going to be fun.
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I have written instructions with my attorney that as long as someone can hear music playing in the house it’s all good…
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Unless Roon Radio kicks in! Mine recently ran for 4 days without stopping. I started it off with Neil Young’s Live at Massey Hall and let it go.
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I couldn’t agree more re the CIA. In fact, your comment made me realize I’ve been dwelling in the land of the digital for too long and need to drop the needle again soon. I’ve had an unopened reissue “Nightfly” waiting for playing for a few weeks now. 
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My turntable isn’t speaking to me since Sunlight. I just get the cold shoulder.
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Those look fantastic! Very nice.
As for the Digital vs Vinyl… I’m really enjoying the mixture of both.
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My turntable likes Sunlight. I feed it into a NuWave Phono Converter and then DSD via HDMI into the DSD.
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Wait—what?? Why do that?
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I found Innuos 2.0 was an instant improvement on Roon, so moved Roon onto a different QNAP server and will use the Innuos direct. Roon on the QNAP can still access the Innuos library.
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I think it depends on how you deploy Roon. For me having it delivered from a NUC attached to my network core and then cabling it from the core via fiber to a Sonore Optical Module Deluxe and then on to the DS made a huge difference.
Thankfully I haven’t gone down that road. Yet.
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I have decided to go with 4 Rel n25s instead of 6 specials. Impulsive. @aangen start getting limber to help unload these beasts. 
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Because it sounds better than the sound from the NuWave analogue outputs.
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Have not heard any DI speakers.
The company, pricing, reviews and bang for the buck is what entices me.
WHY did you return the DI SE speakers ??
Please elaborate
Is that a common technique? Converting analog output from a TT to digital? How does the sound compare to CDs?