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rather than...

...stating a specific phono stage (as -- except for jweiss below -- not many people can state that one is best as a 'fact'), i would posit that the following things could likely improve your phono experience:

1) minimize # of connections/cables. as patrick A (/j harris) writes, below, an extremely high-quality, built-in phono stage eliminates a set of cables. that said, it does have the source switches.

2) if you can do without it, get a phono stage that is phono only (takes in an MC or MM-level input and outputs a line-level signal, with no switches in the signal path). run this direct to your amp. it does one better than #1, above.

this is not feasible for everyone, but if you mainly listen to vinyl, then it's not a big deal to, every now and again, physically switch cables from the amp to the source you wish to use.

disclosure: i do this -- but i listen to vinyl >95% of the time -- maybe i listen to a cd every month or so. more important is the number of sources you listen to in any given session. if you tend to jump between vinyl & another source, this doesn't work so well. if you listen to, say, all CD one day and all vinyl the next then this solution works pretty well.

also, if you simply must keep your current linestage, you can still go the above route -- although you'll now have an extra box.

if you tell us your budget we may be able to provide some direction to guide you to a number of products that are very good in that range.

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