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I had both running off a GS-1, and I approve this message. You could stop there and be happy forever. I marginally favored the 600s, but it's a personal preference.

Bon Iver -- For Emma, Forever Ago Vinyl.

The Pogues -- Rum, Sodomy & The Lash Vinyl.

Wow I wish we had a Costco. BJ's suck, no pun intended.

Yeah, so, turntables are definitely best set up stone cold sober. Got the cart aligned much better today and the surface noise is now even across the record (and substantially diminished overall).

Red team, epic win!

Thanks Ari. I set up somewhat hastily with the Rega template from the box and probably need to do a little more tweaking.

Any particular reason why LPs might relatively consistently have more surface noise on the first few tracks of each album side versus the last few? Poor cartridge setup? Sorry, still figuring this out as I go along.

Jane's Addiction -- Nothing's Shocking Rhino vinyl. Now out of vinyl. Need more vinyl. If only one could buy this sort of stuff online!

Sorry, progress, you understand. Dan will be happy to cart it away for you.

Joy Division -- Unknown Pleasures Vinyl

Lucky Snowy supports up to 16TB then, eh? I can see it now -- "Keep your iTunes library in RAM. Latency begone!"

Yeah, because "buy behind the curve" is such popular advice in these parts!

The Dead Weather -- Horehound Vinyl.

Yes, perhaps vintage, ultra low-mass Japanese tonearms with twitchy cueing are not the way to go then.

Phase Two: ?

The Black Keys -- Attack & Release Vinyl

You're dreamy!

I think you can take that to the bank.

Wot no O3s?

Thanks Al, was thinking more in terms of permanent organization. Guess there's nothing really stopping me just racking them in the shelves with a couple of heavy bookends like Jack does. So I'll just start there!

There are some minor downsides.

So, um, would you like a (potentially) better turntable? The Smashing Pumpkins -- Adore Mono remix vinyl.

Is it messing with the page width? I'll prune.

FW400 is history, sacrificed for one extra USB port. Looks like they couldn't shrink it much over the previous generation, so they settle for slimming the foot.